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Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress. 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 .
Janet Leigh. Actress: Psycho. Janet Leigh was the only child of a couple who often moved from town to town. Living in apartments, Janet was a bright child who skipped several grades and finished high school when she was 15. A lonely child, she would spend much of her time at movie theaters.
Learn about the life and career of Janet Leigh, the actress who starred in Psycho (1960) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Find out her birth name, family, husbands, children, awards, trivia and quotes.
Apr 2, 2014 · Film actress Janet Leigh, once Tony Curtis’s wife, is best remembered for her shower scene as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, 'Psycho.'
Jul 15, 2022 · A year after divorcing Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis married Christine Kaufmann, which also ended in divorce in 1968 (per CBS News). Curtis would marry four more times. He told Reuters that divorcing Leigh hurt his career, between the bad press and Hollywood producers siding with Leigh for how he treated her. Tony Curtis died in 2010.
Oct 4, 2004 · Janet Leigh, the actress who turned the mundane act of getting clean in a shower into one of cinema’s most enduring images of gore and horror, died Sunday with her family at her bedside. She was...
4 days ago · Janet Leigh was an American actor who had a half-century-long career that comprised some 60 motion pictures as well as television appearances but was most remembered for one role in particular, that of Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960).
