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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.
2 days ago · In 1960, Leigh was cast as the morally conflicted murder victim Marion Crane in Hitchcock’s Psycho, co-starring with John Gavin and Anthony Perkins. Leigh was reportedly so traumatized by watching her character’s shower murder scene that she went to great lengths to avoid showers for the rest of her life. Released in June 1960, Psycho was a ...
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.
Janet Leigh was an American actress of film, television, stage, and radio, whose career spanned over five decades. Discovered by actress Norma Shearer, Leigh began her career appearing in several popular films for MGM which spanned a wide variety of genres, including Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), ...
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...
Oct 4, 2004 · Janet Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Psycho” was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a...
6 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).
Oct 5, 2004 · Janet Leigh, who starred in one of the most famous scenes in movie history, is dead at 77. Miss Leigh, a top Hollywood star in the 1950s and 1960s and an intelligent and funny woman offscreen, "died peacefully at her home" on Sunday afternoon, a family spokeswoman said.
God was sad this date in 2004 when Janet Leigh passed away in Beverly Hills, CA. Leigh began her film career in 1947 at the age of 20. She appeared in 54 feature films in a career that spanned 58 years. Leigh was a versatile actress in acted in 8 different film genres, 5+ films.
