Janet Leigh

Oyuncu Doğum: 1927-07-06 • Merced, California, USA

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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.

Janet Leigh

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Filmografi (Rol Aldığı Yapımlar)

Walking My Baby Back Home

Rat Pack

Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

Sapık

E! True Hollywood Story

Family Law

Columbo

Mirror, Mirror

Kid Rodelo

The Story of Lassie

How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border

Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows

A Star Is Born World Premiere

Inside the Dream Factory

Retratos Fantasmas

The Rosemary Clooney Show

The Monk

Bitmeyen Balayı

Alacakaranlık Kuşağı

The Making of 'Psycho'

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Murder, She Wrote

Mançuryalı Aday

House on Greenapple Road

Murdock's Gang

Jaws: Efsanenin 50. Yılı

Küçük Kadınlar

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Ghost Story

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

Touched by an Angel

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

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

Ad ogni costo

Jamie Lee Curtis, un cri de liberté à Hollywood

The Oscars

What's My Line?

Scaramouche

Vikingler

Angels in the Outfield

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

Honeymoon with a Stranger

The Deadly Dream

Das Ei

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

Bob Hope Christmas Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Bob Hope Show

Çıplak Mahmuz

Act of Violence

Hills of Home

Boardwalk

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Holiday Affair

The American Nightmare

Night of 100 Stars II

Tales of the Unexpected

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Ed Sullivan Show

Sis

The Red Danube

If Winter Comes

The Perfect Furlough

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Murder at the World Series

Harper

My Sister Eileen

Houdini

Sapık II

Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond

The Spy in the Green Hat