Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Merced, California, USA, 1927-07-06

Died: 2004-10-03

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	The Romance of Rosy Ridge	Lissy Anne MacBean	66
2	1947	If Winter Comes	Effie Bright	66
3	1948	Hills of Home	Margit Mitchell	67
4	1948	Words and Music	Dorothy Feiner	57
5	1949	How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border		0
6	1949	Act of Violence	Edith Enley	69
7	1949	Little Women	Meg	74
8	1949	The Doctor and the Girl	Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon	57
9	1949	The Red Danube	Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen	63
10	1949	That Forsyte Woman	June Forsyte	59
11	1949	Holiday Affair	Connie Ennis	68
12	1951	Fairfax Avenue		0
13	1951	Strictly Dishonorable	Isabelle Perry	52
14	1951	Angels in the Outfield	Jennifer Paige	67
15	1951	It's a Big Country	Rosa Szabo Xenophon	53
16	1951	Two Tickets to Broadway	Nancy Peterson	43
17	1952	Come Back Little Shiksa		0
18	1952	An Eye for an Eye		0
19	1952	Just This Once	Lucy Duncan	38
20	1952	Scaramouche	Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon	71
21	1952	Fearless Fagan	Abby Ames	46
22	1953	The Naked Spur	Lina Patch	69
23	1953	Confidentially Connie	Connie Bedloe	53
24	1953	Houdini	Bess Houdini	65
25	1953	Walking My Baby Back Home	Chris Hall	90
26	1954	Prince Valiant	Princess Aleta	59
27	1954	Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood		0
28	1954	Living It Up	Wally Cook	64
29	1954	The Black Shield of Falworth	Lady Anne of Mackworth	62
30	1954	Rogue Cop	Karen Stephanson	53
31	1954	A Star Is Born World Premiere	Self	80
32	1955	Pete Kelly's Blues	Ivy Conrad	61
33	1955	My Sister Eileen	Eileen Sherwood	65
34	1956	Nightmare	Janet	0
35	1956	Safari	Linda Latham	56
36	1957	Jet Pilot	Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief	54
37	1958	Touch of Evil	Susan 'Susie' Vargas	78
38	1958	The Vikings	Morgana	71
39	1958	The Perfect Furlough	Lt. Vicki Loren	67
40	1960	People, Hopes, Medals	Self	46
41	1960	Who Was That Lady?	Ann Wilson	62
42	1960	Psycho	Marion Crane	84
43	1960	Pepe	Janet Leigh	62
44	1962	The Manchurian Candidate	Eugenie Rose Chaney	75
45	1963	Bye Bye Birdie	Rosie DeLeon	59
46	1963	Wives and Lovers	Bertie Austin	46
47	1965	Bob Hope Christmas Show	Self	0
48	1966	Kid Rodelo	Nora	0
49	1966	Harper	Susan Harper	67
50	1966	Three on a Couch	Dr Elizabeth Acord	54
51	1966	An American Dream	Cherry McMahon	46
52	1967	The Spy in the Green Hat	Miss Diketon	65
53	1967	Grand Slam	Mary Ann	71
54	1969	Hello Down There	Vivian Miller	59
55	1969	The Monk	Janice Barnes	75
56	1969	Honeymoon with a Stranger	Sandra Latham	65
57	1970	House on Greenapple Road	Marian Ord	60
58	1971	The Deadly Dream	Laurel Hanley	60
59	1972	Hollywood: The Dream Factory	Self (archive footage)	60
60	1972	One Is a Lonely Number	Gert Meredith	52
61	1972	Night of the Lepus	Gerry Bennett	44
62	1973	Murdock's Gang	Laura Talbot	60
63	1977	Murder at the World Series	Karen Weese	65
64	1977	Telethon	Elaine Cotten	50
65	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	38
66	1979	Mirror, Mirror	Millie Gorman	0
67	1979	Boardwalk	Florence Cohen	62
68	1980	Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'	Self	48
69	1980	The Fog	Kathy Williams	67
70	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
71	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
72	1983	Psycho II	Marion Crane (archival footage) (uncredited)	65
73	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
74	1986	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Self	75
75	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
76	1993	24 Hour Psycho	Marion Crane (archive footage)	40
77	1993	The Egg	The egg (voice) (archive footage)	70
78	1994	Hitchcock: Alfred the Great	Himself	0
79	1994	The Story of Lassie	Self	0
80	1995	Charlton Heston: For All Seasons	Self	50
81	1995	Inside the Dream Factory	Self	60
82	1996	Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown	Interviewee	60
83	1997	In My Sister's Shadow	Kay Connor	50
84	1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Norma Watson	60
85	1999	Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows	Self	0
86	1999	Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special	Self (uncredited)	68
87	1999	Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius	Self	84
88	1999	Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool	Self	0
89	2000	Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond	Herself	58
90	2000	Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies	Self	0
91	2000	The American Nightmare	Self	70
92	2000	Mary Pickford: A Life on Film	Self	0
93	2002	Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'	Self	58
94	2005	Bad Girls from Valley High	Mrs. Witt	39
95	2005	The Making of 'Psycho'	Self	74
96	2010	The Psycho Legacy	Self (archive footage)	69
97	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
98	2017	78/52	Self (archive footage)	73
99	2017	Psycho Tom	Marion Crane	0
100	2019	Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"	(archive footage)	0
101	2021	I Am Alfred Hitchcock	Self	71
102	2022	Rat Pack	Self (archive footage)	90
103		Forgotten Lady	Grace Wheeler Willis	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self	72
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
3	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
4	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	69
5	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
7	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	64
8	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
9	1956	The Rosemary Clooney Show	Self	0
10	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
11	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
12	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self - Host	45
13	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
14	1971	Columbo	Grace Wheeler Willis	81
15	1972	Ghost Story	Carol	71
16	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
17	1977	The Love Boat	Joan Philipps / Gail	63
18	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Joan Stackpole	67
19	1982	Matt Houston		62
20	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Cornelia Montaigne Harper	75
21	1985	The Twilight Zone		78
22	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self (archive footage)	45
23	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
24	1994	Touched by an Angel	Vera King	72
25	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
26	1997	Scene by Scene	Self	60
27	1999	Family Law	Mary Sawyer	82
28	2012	Honest Trailers	Marion Crane (archive footage)	65

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