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.
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What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line?
Self - Panelist
Murder, She Wrote
Cornelia Montaigne Harper
The Love Boat
Joan Philipps / Gail
Columbo
Grace Wheeler Willis
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Tales of the Unexpected
Joan Stackpole
Honest Trailers
Marion Crane (archive footage)
The Twilight Zone
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait
Self
Touched by an Angel
Vera King
This Is Your Life
Self
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Host
Matt Houston
Family Law
Mary Sawyer
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
The Oscars
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Ghost Story
Carol
Scene by Scene
Self
The Rosemary Clooney Show
Self
Psycho
Marion Crane
E! True Hollywood Story
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Psycho II
Marion Crane (archival footage) (uncredited)
The Fog
Kathy Williams
The Manchurian Candidate
Eugenie Rose Chaney
The Vikings
Morgana
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Norma Watson
Touch of Evil
Susan 'Susie' Vargas
Little Women
Meg
Harper
Susan Harper
Scaramouche
Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
Bye Bye Birdie
Rosie DeLeon
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
The Naked Spur
Lina Patch
Night of the Lepus
Gerry Bennett
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self (uncredited)
Angels in the Outfield
Jennifer Paige
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
78/52
Self (archive footage)
Holiday Affair
Connie Ennis
Prince Valiant
Princess Aleta
Jet Pilot
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
Pepe
Janet Leigh
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
The Black Shield of Falworth
Lady Anne of Mackworth
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Just This Once
Lucy Duncan
Act of Violence
Edith Enley
Grand Slam
Mary Ann
Houdini
Bess Houdini
The American Nightmare
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
My Sister Eileen
Eileen Sherwood
Safari
Linda Latham
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Spy in the Green Hat
Miss Diketon
Three on a Couch
Dr Elizabeth Acord
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
An American Dream
Cherry McMahon
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
The Psycho Legacy
Self (archive footage)
Living It Up
Wally Cook
Walking My Baby Back Home
Chris Hall
Hello Down There
Vivian Miller
Words and Music
Dorothy Feiner
The Perfect Furlough
Lt. Vicki Loren
The Monk
Janice Barnes
Hills of Home
Margit Mitchell
Who Was That Lady?
Ann Wilson
The Red Danube
Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
(archive footage)
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
Herself
Kid Rodelo
Nora
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
24 Hour Psycho
Marion Crane (archive footage)
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self
The Making of 'Psycho'
Self
It's a Big Country
Rosa Szabo Xenophon
Bad Girls from Valley High
Mrs. Witt
The Story of Lassie
Self
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Self
Rogue Cop
Karen Stephanson
Fearless Fagan
Abby Ames
Boardwalk
Florence Cohen
The Doctor and the Girl
Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Two Tickets to Broadway
Nancy Peterson
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
Interviewee
Confidentially Connie
Connie Bedloe
One Is a Lonely Number
Gert Meredith
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Self
Pete Kelly's Blues
Ivy Conrad
That Forsyte Woman
June Forsyte
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
Self
Murder at the World Series
Karen Weese
If Winter Comes
Effie Bright
In My Sister's Shadow
Kay Connor
Mirror, Mirror
Millie Gorman
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Lissy Anne MacBean
Telethon
Elaine Cotten
Psycho Tom
Marion Crane
House on Greenapple Road
Marian Ord
Inside the Dream Factory
Self
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
Self
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
Nightmare
Janet
Strictly Dishonorable
Isabelle Perry
Wives and Lovers
Bertie Austin
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Self
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Self
The Egg
The egg (voice) (archive footage)
Fairfax Avenue
The Deadly Dream
Laurel Hanley
Come Back Little Shiksa
People, Hopes, Medals
Self
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
Self
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Himself
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Sandra Latham
Murdock's Gang
Laura Talbot
An Eye for an Eye
Bob Hope Christmas Show
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
Self
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
Golden Globe Awards
Self