Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

Birthday: 1927-07-06

Deathday: 2004-10-03

Place of birth: Merced, California, USA

Also known as: Jeanette Helen Morrison, جنت لی

imdb_id: nm0001463

Biography:

Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison) 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.

Played in movies:

Rat Pack

Score: 9.0

Walking My Baby Back Home

Score: 9.0

Psycho

Score: 8.4

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

Score: 8.4

A Star Is Born World Premiere

Score: 8.0

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

Touch of Evil

Score: 7.8

The Manchurian Candidate

Score: 7.5

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Score: 7.5

The Monk

Score: 7.5

The Making of 'Psycho'

Score: 7.4

Little Women

Score: 7.4

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Score: 7.2

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 7.2

Grand Slam

Score: 7.1

Scaramouche

Score: 7.1

The Vikings

Score: 7.1

And the Oscar Goes To...

Score: 7.0

The Egg

Score: 7.0

The American Nightmare

Score: 7.0

Act of Violence

Score: 6.9

The Naked Spur

Score: 6.9

The Psycho Legacy

Score: 6.9

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

Score: 6.8

Holiday Affair

Score: 6.8

The Fog

Score: 6.7

Hills of Home

Score: 6.7

Angels in the Outfield

Score: 6.7

Harper

Score: 6.7

Night of 100 Stars

Score: 6.7

The Perfect Furlough

Score: 6.6

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Score: 6.6

If Winter Comes

Score: 6.6

Murder at the World Series

Score: 6.5

The Spy in the Green Hat

Score: 6.5

Honeymoon with a Stranger

Score: 6.5

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Score: 6.5

My Sister Eileen

Score: 6.5

Psycho II

Score: 6.5

Houdini

Score: 6.5

Living It Up

Score: 6.4

The Red Danube

Score: 6.3

Pepe

Score: 6.2

Boardwalk

Score: 6.2

Who Was That Lady?

Score: 6.2

The Black Shield of Falworth

Score: 6.2

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Score: 6.0

Inside the Dream Factory

Score: 6.0

Murdock's Gang

Score: 6.0

Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown

Score: 6.0

House on Greenapple Road

Score: 6.0

The Deadly Dream

Score: 6.0

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Score: 6.0

Pete Kelly's Blues

Score: 6.0

Prince Valiant

Score: 6.0

That Forsyte Woman

Score: 5.9

Hello Down There

Score: 5.9

Bye Bye Birdie

Score: 5.9

Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'

Score: 5.8

Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond

Score: 5.8

Words and Music

Score: 5.7

The Doctor and the Girl

Score: 5.7

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

Score: 5.7

Safari

Score: 5.6

Jet Pilot

Score: 5.4

Three on a Couch

Score: 5.4

Confidentially Connie

Score: 5.3

It's a Big Country

Score: 5.3

Rogue Cop

Score: 5.3

Strictly Dishonorable

Score: 5.2

One Is a Lonely Number

Score: 5.2

In My Sister's Shadow

Score: 5.0

Telethon

Score: 5.0

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

Score: 5.0

Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'

Score: 4.8

Fearless Fagan

Score: 4.6

Wives and Lovers

Score: 4.6

An American Dream

Score: 4.6

People, Hopes, Medals

Score: 4.6

Night of the Lepus

Score: 4.4

Two Tickets to Broadway

Score: 4.3

24 Hour Psycho

Score: 4.0

Bad Girls from Valley High

Score: 3.9

Just This Once

Score: 3.8

The Horror Show

Score: 3.8

Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood

Score: 0.0

Bob Hope Christmas Show

Score: 0.0

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

Score: 0.0

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

Score: 0.0

Nightmare

Score: 0.0

An Eye for an Eye

Score: 0.0

Fairfax Avenue

Score: 0.0

Come Back Little Shiksa

Score: 0.0

Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool

Score: 0.0

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

Score: 0.0

How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border

Score: 0.0

The Story of Lassie

Score: 0.0

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

Score: 0.0

Kid Rodelo

Score: 0.0

Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

Score: 0.0

Mirror, Mirror

Score: 0.0

Psycho Tom

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Family Law

Score: 8.2

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Columbo

Score: 8.1

The Twilight Zone

Score: 7.7

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Score: 7.2

Ghost Story

Score: 7.1

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Score: 6.6

This Is Your Life

Score: 6.4

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

Matt Houston

Score: 6.2

Scene by Scene

Score: 6.0

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

Intimate Portrait

Score: 4.5

Intimate Portrait

Score: 4.5

The Hollywood Palace

Score: 4.5

The Rosemary Clooney Show

Score: 0.0