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Janet Leigh
Actor, Producer
Born July 6, 1927Died October 3, 2004 (77 years)
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum.
Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
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Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum.
Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2024 | Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail · as Marion Crane In Psycho |
| 2023 | Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic · as Rosie Deleon |
| 2019 | Hitchcock Confidential · as Marion Crane |
| 2019 | Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" · as (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Hollywood, No Sex Please! · as Marion Crane |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers (TV Series) · as Marion Crane (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! · as Cast |
| 2010 | The 82nd Annual Academy Awards · as Marion Crane |
| 2009 | A Single Man · as Marion Crane |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Double Take · as Marion Crane |
| 2005 | Bad Girls from Valley High · as Mrs. Witt |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · as Morgana |
| 1999 | Family Law (TV Series) · as Mary Sawyer |
| 1998 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later · as Norma Watson |
| 1997 | In My Sister's Shadow · as Kay Connor |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · as Vera King |
| 1993 | 24 Hour Psycho · as Marion Crane (archive Footage) |
| 1986 | Starman (TV Series) · as Antonia Weyburn |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone (1985) (TV Series) |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Cornelia Montaigne Harper |
| 1982 | Matt Houston (TV Series) |
| 1980 | The Fog · as Kathy Williams |
| 1979 | Boardwalk · as Florence Cohen |
| 1979 | Mirror, Mirror · as Millie Gorman |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) · as Joan Stackpole |
| 1979 | The Horror Show · as (archive Footage) |
| 1977 | Telethon · as Elaine Cotten |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Joan Philipps / Gail |
| 1977 | Murder at the World Series · as Karen Weese |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Carol Gates |
| 1974 | Movin' On (TV Series) · as Nina Smith |
| 1973 | Love Story (TV Series) · as Leonie |
| 1972 | Night of the Lepus · as Gerry Bennett |
| 1972 | One Is a Lonely Number · as Gert Meredith |
| 1972 | Ghost Story (TV Series) · as Carol |
| 1971 | The Deadly Dream · as Laurel Hanley |
| 1971 | Columbo (TV Series) · as Grace Wheeler Willis |
| 1970 | The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Various |
| 1970 | House on Greenapple Road · as Marian Ord |
| 1969 | Honeymoon with a Stranger · as Sandra Latham |
| 1969 | The Monk · as Janice Barnes |
| 1969 | Bracken's World (TV Series) · as Maggie Morgan |
| 1969 | Hello Down There · as Vivian Miller |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Glory Bates |
| 1967 | Grand Slam · as Mary Ann |
| 1967 | The Danny Thomas Hour (TV Series) · as Liza Merrick |
| 1967 | The Spy in the Green Hat · as Miss Diketon |
| 1966 | An American Dream · as Cherry Mcmahon |
| 1966 | Kid Rodelo · as Nora |
| 1966 | Harper · as Susan Harper |
| 1966 | Three on a Couch · as Dr Elizabeth Acord |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Miss Diketon |
| 1963 | Wives and Lovers · as Bertie Austin |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1963 | Bye Bye Birdie · as Rosie Deleon |
| 1962 | The Manchurian Candidate · as Eugenie Rose Chaney |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Jenny Davis |
| 1960 | Psycho · as Marion Crane |
| 1960 | Who Was That Lady? · as Ann Wilson |
| 1959 | Take a Good Look (TV Series) · as Panelist |
| 1958 | The Perfect Furlough · as Lt. Vicki Loren |
| 1958 | The Vikings · as Morgana |
| 1958 | Touch of Evil · as Susan 'susie' Vargas |
| 1957 | Jet Pilot · as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief |
| 1956 | Safari · as Linda Latham |
| 1955 | My Sister Eileen · as Eileen Sherwood |
| 1955 | Pete Kelly's Blues · as Ivy Conrad |
| 1954 | Rogue Cop · as Karen Stephanson |
| 1954 | The Black Shield of Falworth · as Lady Anne Of Mackworth |
| 1954 | Living It Up · as Wally Cook |
| 1954 | Prince Valiant · as Princess Aleta |
| 1953 | Walking My Baby Back Home · as Chris Hall |
| 1953 | Houdini · as Bess Houdini |
| 1953 | Confidentially Connie · as Connie Bedloe |
| 1953 | The Naked Spur · as Lina Patch |
| 1952 | Fearless Fagan · as Abby Ames |
| 1952 | Scaramouche · as Aline De Gavrillac De Bourbon |
| 1952 | Just This Once · as Lucy Duncan |
| 1951 | It's a Big Country: An American Anthology · as Rosa Szabo Xenophon |
| 1951 | Two Tickets to Broadway · as Nancy Peterson |
| 1951 | Angels in the Outfield · as Jennifer Paige |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as Clara Appleby-George Skit |
| 1951 | Strictly Dishonorable · as Isabelle Perry |
| 1949 | Holiday Affair · as Connie Ennis |
| 1949 | That Forsyte Woman · as June Forsyte |
| 1949 | The Red Danube · as Olga Alexandrova Aka Maria Buhlen |
| 1949 | The Doctor and the Girl · as Evelyn 'taffy' Heldon |
| 1949 | Little Women · as Meg |
| 1949 | |
| 1948 | Words and Music · as Dorothy Feiner |
| 1948 | Act of Violence · as Edith Enley |
| 1948 | Hills of Home · as Margit Mitchell |
| 1947 | If Winter Comes · as Effie Bright |
| 1947 | The Romance of Rosy Ridge · as Lissy Anne Macbean |