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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 was an American actress who starred in over 50 movies, including Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate and Touch of Evil. She was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her role in Psycho, and was the mother of actress Jamie Lee Curtis.
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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.
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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...
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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.'
Oct 4, 2004 · The actress, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role as the shower victim in Hitchcock's classic thriller, passed away in 2004 from vasculitis. She also appeared in films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Touch of Evil" and was married to Tony Curtis.
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 ...
