Janet Leigh
Acting
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.
Pictures of Ghosts
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
(archive footage)
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Psycho'
Self
Bad Girls from Valley High
Mrs. Witt
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
Self
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Self
The American Nightmare
Self
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
Self
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
Herself
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
Self
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Self
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self (uncredited)
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Self
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Norma Watson
Unmasking the Horror
In My Sister's Shadow
Kay Connor
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
Self - Interviewee
Inside the Dream Factory
Self
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Self
The Story of Lassie
Self
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Himself
The Egg
The egg (voice) (archive footage)
24 Hour Psycho
Marion Crane (archive footage)
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Self
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Psycho II
Marion Crane (archival footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The Fog
Kathy Williams
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
Self
Boardwalk
Florence Cohen
Mirror, Mirror
Millie Gorman
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
Telethon
Elaine Cotten
Murder at the World Series
Karen Weese
Murdock's Gang
Laura Talbot
Night of the Lepus
Gerry Bennett
One Is a Lonely Number
Gert Meredith
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Deadly Dream
Laurel Hanley
House on Greenapple Road
Marian Ord
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Sandra Latham
The Monk
Janice Barnes
Hello Down There
Vivian Miller
Grand Slam
Mary Ann
The Spy in the Green Hat
Miss Diketon
An American Dream
Cherry McMahon
Three on a Couch
Dr Elizabeth Acord
Harper
Susan Harper
Kid Rodelo
Nora
Bob Hope Christmas Show
Self
Wives and Lovers
Bertie Austin
Bye Bye Birdie
Rosie DeLeon
The Manchurian Candidate
Eugenie Rose Chaney
Pepe
Janet Leigh
Psycho
Marion Crane
Who Was That Lady?
Ann Wilson
People, Hopes, Medals
Self
The Perfect Furlough
Lt. Vicki Loren
The Vikings
Morgana
Touch of Evil
Susan 'Susie' Vargas
Jet Pilot
Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
Safari
Linda Latham
Nightmare
Janet
My Sister Eileen
Eileen Sherwood
Pete Kelly's Blues
Ivy Conrad
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
Rogue Cop
Karen Stephanson
The Black Shield of Falworth
Lady Anne of Mackworth
Living It Up
Wally Cook
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
Prince Valiant
Princess Aleta
Walking My Baby Back Home
Chris Hall
Houdini
Bess Houdini
Confidentially Connie
Connie Bedloe
The Naked Spur
Lina Patch
Fearless Fagan
Abby Ames
Scaramouche
Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
Just This Once
Lucy Duncan
An Eye for an Eye
Come Back Little Shiksa
Two Tickets to Broadway
Nancy Peterson
It's a Big Country
Rosa Szabo Xenophon
Angels in the Outfield
Jennifer Paige
The Re-Inforcer
Mary Muck
Strictly Dishonorable
Isabelle Perry
Fairfax Avenue
Holiday Affair
Connie Ennis
That Forsyte Woman
June Forsyte
The Red Danube
Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
The Doctor and the Girl
Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Little Women
Meg
Act of Violence
Edith Enley
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
Words and Music
Dorothy Feiner
Hills of Home
Margit Mitchell
If Winter Comes
Effie Bright
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Lissy Anne MacBean