Janet Leigh

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[SIZE=6]Janet Leigh[/SIZE]

AKA Jeanette Helen Morrison
Born: 6-Jul-1927
Birthplace: Merced, CA
Died: 4-Oct-2004
Location of death: Beverly Hills, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Psycho Husband: John Carlyle (m. 1942, div. 1942)
Husband: Stanley Reames (m. 1946, div. 1948)
Husband: Tony Curtis (actor, m. 4-Jun-1951, div. Jun-1962, two daughters)
Daughter: Kelly Curtis (actress, b. 17-Jun-1956)
Daughter: Jamie Lee Curtis (actress, b. 22-Nov-1958)
Husband: Robert Brandt (m. 1962, until her death)


Leigh, 77, died in her Beverly Hills home surrounded by daughters Jamie Lee and Kelly Curtis and her fourth husband, Robert Brandt, Schaeffer said.
Leigh had been battling vasculitis -- an inflammation of the blood vessels -- for a year, she said.
Leigh married Brandt in 1964 after an 11-year marriage to actor Tony Curtis, the father of her two children.
Leigh was born Jeanette Helen Morrison in Merced, California, on July 6, 1927. Norma Shearer, a Hollywood star of the '20s and '30s, saw a photograph of her and recommended her to Lew Wasserman, a powerful talent agent. Leigh was still a teenager at the time.
She was signed by MGM and first appeared in "The Romance of Rosy Ridge" (1947).
"Psycho," however, was no doubt her most famous role. The shower scene, meticulously laid out by Hitchcock, took a week to film.
She noted that she hadn't been able to take a shower since the movie. "It's not a hype," she told The Associated Press. "Honest to gosh, it's true."
In addition to "Psycho," Leigh's other films included "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963), "Little Women" (1949) and the Orson Welles classic "Touch of Evil" (1958). More recently, she appeared in "The Fog" (1980) and "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later" (1998) with daughter Jamie Lee.
Leigh had requested that all donations in her name be made to the Motion Picture and Television Foundation.
Leigh's publicist, John Frazer, said the actress served on the board of directors for the fund, which provides health care and medical treatment to those who work in the entertainment industry.
"She was not only a legendary actress, but she was also an author and a humanitarian," Frazer said.

[Kathyf]

She was a great actress. I liked her in everything.

[cleanskull]

She made taking a shower spooky.Especially when ya gotta soap up the face.That movie makes me wanna keep at least one eye open and yeah, in goes the soap. She was a kick in The Fog.

[GrinReaper]

Interesting that she was sooooo freaked about taking showers and yet she was the actress on the set, making the movie.
Then again I suppose if all I saw was a silouette of someone with a knife, while making a movie, I'd get freaked out too!

[RoRo]

She was so beautiful and talented. I have never taken a shower without being wary since I saw Psycho

[1karenhb]

I was a kid when Psycho came out and I saw the movie with my parents. Not a good idea!!! I was so freaked out I was into my 20's before I could take a shower without someone being home. Even now I still get spooked sometimes. Several years ago I met Janet Leigh at a book signing for her book on the making of Psycho. I Told her how traumatized the movie made me and she said the same thing, that she never took a shower again after making that movie. Only baths!!!

[Bidmor]

Janet was a major babe (I'm going back to the 70's with that description) and obviously her famous daughter inherited her bod genes.

Morphing time, could we see Janet doing Jamie Lee's roles in "A Fish Called Wanda" or "True Lies"? I can easily...."Trading Places" too, except I don't think Janet would do topless though.

[KELT]

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1963


1974


1988

[Jack-O-Lantern]

'Psycho,' of course, but Janet was also great in Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil," one of my favorite "B" movies of all time.

Great pics Kelt, I especially like the 1974 entry, she could be Angie Dickinson's TWIN !!!

[leevancleef]

i love Janet, i heart her. She had one of the most faboulous figures ive ever seen. She and Tony Curtis were a stunning couple back then....(ewww, Tony looks terrible now).
Jack, Touch of Evil is also one of my favorite movies!
i also love her in My sister Eileen, The Naked Spur, The Manchurian Candidate and off course Psycho.

[Noelle Page]

Janet had divine ta-tas.

[mr.wanttohaveitall]

1947

1963

1974

1988

May I say I can't help but wonder what type of....."support" she has in the 1947 photo. It's a great pic but c'mon, I don't think any woman is THAT pointy and perky without a little help. That was years before Jane Russell came out with her commercials too.

[Genevieve]

Well that was what "burn your bras" was all about. People conveniently forget that it had nothing to do with being "shackled" but all to do with the bras at that time having nothing to do with a woman's natural shape, thus being extremely uncomfortable. Somebody designed bras in the shape of two conicals with a strip of elastic!

Personally I am more frightened in the bath. My bathroom doesn't have windows so when you go in and turn the light on a noisy extractor fan comes on - with that din I can't hear the phone ring, a knock on the door, a smoke alarm or someone breaking into the house. At least standing up under the shower I can jump out quickly.

[FloridaDeathHag]

Janet was a major babe (I'm going back to the 70's with that description) and obviously her famous daughter inherited her bod genes.

Morphing time, could we see Janet doing Jamie Lee's roles in "A Fish Called Wanda" or "True Lies"? I can easily...."Trading Places" too, except I don't think Janet would do topless though.

I can imagine her dressed as a hooker in a loud red wig, but I can't imagine her saying Jamie Lee's line, "I'll do all those things you like" to Dan Ackroyd!

[KELT]

I can imagine her dressed as a hooker in a loud red wig, but I can't imagine her saying Jamie Lee's line, "I'll do all those things you like" to Dan Ackroyd!

I think that the raunchiest character that JANET LEIGH ever played was in THE HOUSE ON GREENAPPLE ROAD.

[Jack-O-Lantern]

I think that the raunchiest character that JANET LEIGH ever played was in THE HOUSE ON GREENAPPLE ROAD.

I hadn't thought of that flick (TV movie right?) since the early 70s. Gave me serious nightmares.

[Northern Lights]

Janet Leigh is one of my favorite actresses.

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