Janet Leigh

Movie Actress

Janet Leigh was born in Merced, California, United States on July 6th, 1927 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 77, Janet Leigh biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 6, 1927
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Merced, California, United States
Death Date
Oct 3, 2004 (age 77)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Networth
$20 Million
Profession
Actor, Character Actor, Film Actor, Singer, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Writer
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Education
University of the Pacific
Janet Leigh Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
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John Carlisle, ​ ​(m. 1942; annulled 1942)​, Stanley Reames, ​ ​(m. 1945; div. 1948)​, Tony Curtis, ​ ​(m. 1951; div. 1962)​, Robert Brandt ​(m. 1962)​
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Kelly Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis
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Janet Leigh Life

Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author who died on October 6, 1927.

Leigh, who was born in Stockton, California, was discovered at the age of eighteen by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a job with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Leigh's first foray into acting appeared in radio programs before making her film debut in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). She appeared in a number of popular MGM films, including Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), and Living It Up (1954).

Leigh appeared in films including Safari (1956) and Orson Welles' film noir Touch of Evil (1958), but she received her most coveted award in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Tony Curtis' marriage ended in divorce in 1962, and Leigh, who appeared in The Manchurian Candidate the same year, has put it on hold.

She appeared in films including Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979).

She made her Broadway debut in a production of Murder Among Friends in late 1975.

Jamie Lee Curtis (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). She would continue to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels, in addition to her appearance as an actor.

She died in October 2004 at the age of 77 following a year-long fight with vaping, a blood vessel inflammation.

Early life

Jeanette Morrison was born in Merced, California, and was the only child of Helen Lita (née Westergaard) and Frederick Robert Morrison. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Denmark, and her father had Scotish and German roots, and her father was German. The family were moved to Stockton, where Leigh's family lived. After the Great Depression, she was born in poverty as her father tried to help the family with his factory jobs, and he took up various other jobs.

Leigh was raised Presbyterian and performed in the local church choir as a child. The family moved to Merced, where they stepped into her grandparents' home in 1941, when her paternal grandfather became terminally ill. She attended Weber Grammar School in Stockton and then Stockton High School. Leigh excelled in academics and graduated from high school at the age of 16.

Personal life

Leigh married eighteen-year-old John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada, on August 1, 1942, during her last year of high school. On December 28, 1942, the marriage was annulled five months later. Leigh, who now attends San Joaquin Delta College, began studying at the College of the Pacific in September 1943, where she majored in music and psychology. She sang with the Alpha Theta Tau sorority while in college and performed with the college's cappella choir. She spent Christmas and summer holidays at supermarket stores and dime stores, as well as at the college's information desk during her studies in order to help her families. Leigh, a University student at the University of Massachusetts, met Stanley Reames, a US Navy sailor who was enrolled in a nearby V-12 Program. Leigh and Reames married on October 6, 1945, when she was eighteen; their marriage, on the other hand, was short-lived, and they divorced less than three years later.

Though Leigh left college to pursue her film career, she re-enrolled in night classes at the University of Southern California in early 1947.

In a private reception in Greenwich, Connecticut, Leigh married actor Tony Curtis on June 4, 1951. In gossip columns and film tabloids, their romance and marriage were a common topic. Leigh and Curtis appeared in several home movies directed by their buddy Jerry Lewis from 1951 to 1954. Leigh credited the experimental and informal nature of these films with her ability to stretch her acting skills and attempt new roles. Kelly Lee Curtis, Leigh's first daughter, was born on June 17, 1956. Leigh gave birth to her second child, Jamie Lee Curtis, on November 22, 1958. In 1962, Curtis and Leigh married. Later this year, she married former Swedish director-writer-actor-producer Helmer Brandt.

Leigh, a lifelong Democrat, voted for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 United States presidential election and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 United States presidential election. She has also served on the board of directors of the Motion Picture and Television Foundation, a medical-services firm for actors.

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Janet Leigh Career

Career

Actor Norma Shearer was holidaying in Sugar Bowl, a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains where Leigh's parents were stationed at the time. Shearer discovered a photograph of Leigh taken by the ski club photographer during the Christmas holiday that he had printed and placed in a photo album for guests to view.

Shearer's late husband Irving Thalberg, MGM's late husband, was on the retort to Los Angeles, showing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) talent agent Lew Wasserman (MGM)'s portrait of the then-eighteen-year-old Leigh (Shearer's late husband Irving Thalberg, MGM's chief of production at MGM). She would later recall that "that smile made it the most interesting appearance I had seen in years." "I felt I had to show the face of the studio to someone." Shearer was able to arrange screen tests for Leigh and Selena Royle, which was followed by Wasserman's contract for her, despite her lack of acting experience. Leigh spent the year out of college and was immediately placed under the tutelage of drama coach Lillian Burns.

Leigh was a guest star on the radio dramatic anthology The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players, before starting her film career. She made her first appearance on radio at age 19 when she appeared on television in "All Through the House," a Christmas special that aired on December 24, 1946. As the romantic interest of box office actor Van Johnson's character, she made her film debut in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). She was involved in Phyllis Thaxter's long speech in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as the head of the studio talent department. Leigh's name was first changed to "Jeanette Reames," then to "Janet Leigh," and finally to "Jeanette Morrison" as the studio felt that "Janet Leigh" would create confusion with actress Vivien Leigh. However, Johnson did not like the name, and it was eventually renamed to "Janet Leigh" (pronounced "Lee").

In the drama If Winter Comes (1947), playing a young pregnant woman in an English village, Leigh was immediately after the publication of The Romance of Rosy Ridge. By early 1948, Leigh was occupied with the shooting of Hills of Home (1948), her third film in which she was first given actress credit. In MGM's all-star musical, Words and Music (1948), she appeared as the young wife of composer Richard Rodgers. In late 1948, she was hailed as "No. "No." "One glamour girl" of Hollywood, but she is best known for her polite, generous, and down-to-earth demeana.

In 1949, Leigh appeared in several films, including the thriller Act of Violence (1949), directed by Fred Zinnemann and Robert Ryan. Despite being a financial loss, analysts were nevertheless sympathetic about it. She also had a major hit with MGM's version of Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott's book, in which she played Meg March alongside June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor. Critics generally enjoyed the film. Leigh appeared as a nun in the anti-Communist drama The Red Danube's, which earned her critical acclaim, was followed by a role as Glenn Ford's love interest in The Doctor and the Girl in 1949. As June Forsyte Woman (1949), opposite Greer Garson and Errol Flynn, as Robert Mitchum's leading co-star in the RKO-produced Holiday Affair (1949), there are other credits from 1949. She began working on Josef von Sternberg's adventure-drama film Jet Pilot, in which she appeared as the female lead opposite John Wayne in December. Howard Hughes' constant re-editing would cause the film to be postponed almost eight years before being released.

She appeared in Strictly Dishonorable (1951), a comedy with Ezio Pinza based on a Preston Sturges play. The film received little critical acclaim. In the Outfield (1951), Leigh appeared in the baseball-themed fantasy farce Angels, which was a major commercial success. RKO borrowed Leigh from Broadway (1951), which was a box-office hit, that same year. She was one of many actresses in the anthology film It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952) and appeared in a romantic comedy with Peter Lawford, Just This Once (1952). Leigh was a major commercial success with the swashbuckler-themed Scaramouche (1952), in which she appeared alongside Stewart Granger and Eleanor Parker in Aline de Gavrillac. In the critically acclaimed comedy Fearless Fagan (1952), about a clown recruited into the military, followed by a role opposite James Stewart in the Western The Naked Spur (1953). Despite being a low-budget film of the year, the latter was one of the year's best-grossing films and was praised by several commentators for its psychological aspects. The comedy Confidentially Connie (1953), in which Leigh starred opposite Van Johnson as a pregnant housewife who helps start a bidding war at a local butcher shop, was less well received.

Leigh and Curtis, the pair's first film together, were borrowed by Paramount for the biographical film Houdini (1953), with the two actors portraying as Harry and Bess Houdini respectively. The two comedians appeared on Martin and Lewis' Colgate Comedy Hour before Leigh was loaned to Universal to appear in the musical Walking My Baby Back Home (1953). In the Fox-produced adventure film Prince Valiant (1954), a Viking-themed film based on Hal Foster's comedies of the same name, Leigh was cast as Robert Wagner's love interest. Leigh appeared in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy Living It Up (1954) for Paramount, later in 1954, where she appeared opposite Curtis in the swashbuckler film The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), marking their second film co-production together. In MGM's film noir Rogue Cop (1954), Leigh also appeared opposite Robert Taylor as a femme fatale lounge singer. Variety praised her role in the film as "satisfactory," but criticize the screenplay for being illogical. Leigh had a six-year deal with MGM after that film.

Leigh, a woman from Manchester, England, signed a 4-picture contract with Universal, where her husband was based. She has also agreed to produce one film a year for five years with Columbia. Leigh appeared in Pete Kelly's Blues (1954), co-starring Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, and Dick York, and later starred in her first film under Columbia's sponsorship of two sisters living in New York City. Leigh and Curtis established Curtleigh Productions in early 1955. Leigh Leigh (1956) in Safari (1956) opposite Victor Mature, who was shot in Kenya for Warwick Pictures. Leigh and Curtis gave birth to their first child, Kelly, in the same year. She made her television debut in "Carriage From Britain" in a Schlitz Playhouse episode. The film Jet Pilot, which Leigh had shot in 1949, was finally released in 1957.

Susan Vargas appeared in the Orson Welles film noir masterpiece Touch of Evil (1958), a film with many similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's later film Psycho (1958), where she portrays a newlywed couple trapped in a Mexican border town. Leigh would later describe shooting the film as a "great experience," but "universal" didn't know it so they recut it." Gone was the undisciplined but brilliant film Orson had made. Leigh was co-starring in her fourth film with Curtis, The Vikings (1958), directed by and co-starring Kirk Douglas, and was released in June 1958. The film, which was distributed by United Artists, was one of the 1950s' most expensive marketing efforts. It was eventually a blockbuster, grossing over $13 million worldwide. The Perfect Furlough, Leigh Leigh's next film, was released in early 1959, in which she appeared with Curtis once more, portraying a psychiatrist lieutenant in Paris. Who Was That Lady? leigh and Curtis co-starred in the Columbia Pictures farce Who Was That Lady? (Worthis) cheating on her husband (Curtis) has led to a string of mishaps in early 1960).

Leigh appeared in her most iconic role in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, co-starring John Gavin and Anthony Perkins, and was released by Universal in 1960. Leigh was reportedly so traumatized by filming her character's shower murder scene that she went to such lengths to avoid showers for the remainder of her life. Psychological was a big critical and commercial success when it was first introduced in June 1960. Leigh received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her appearance, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Leigh's role in Psycho was pivotal, and she later stated, "I've been in a number of films, but I suspect if an actor can be remembered for one role." I'm lucky in that sense. Film scholars have praised her character's death early in the film for infringing on narrative values of the time, while film scholars' inclusion of her murder scene is considered one of the most iconic scenes in film history.

Both Leigh and Curtis appeared in Columbia's all-star Pepe (1960), marking their last film together. Curtis filed for divorce in 1962, while Leigh was filming the film The Manchurian Candidate. The divorce was finalized in Juarez, Mexico, on September 14, 1962, and Leigh married former Swedish director-writer-producer Helmer Robert Wilhelm Brandt, later stockbroker Robert Brandt (1927-1990), in a private ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada. Leigh would later claim that their divorce was due to "outside causes," which included the death of Curtis' father. Leigh appeared in Bye Birdie (1963), based on the hit Broadway show. She appeared in the comedy Wives and Lovers (1963) for director Hal Wallis at

Leigh took a three-year break from acting, including Simone Clouseau in The Pink Panther, because she did not want to go on location and be separated from her teenage children. She returned to film in 1966, first appearing in three films: the western Kid Rodelo (1966), followed by Harper (1966), in which she played Paul Newman's estranged wife opposite Lauren Bacall. She portrayed a psychiatrist opposite Jerry Lewis in The comedy Three on a Couch, followed by a lead role in An American Dream, based on the Norman Mailer book of the same name; the latter film received critical attention.

Leigh's first television appearances were on anthology shows such as Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre and The Red Skelton Hour. She appeared in several made-for-TV films, most notable the off-length (135 minutes instead of the normal 100) on ABC in January 1970. The House on Greenapple Road, which premiered on ABC in January 1970 to high ratings, also appeared in several made-for-TV films. Leigh starred in the science fiction film Night of the Lepus with Stuart Whitman, as well as Trish Van Devere's dramatic One Is a Lonely Number. In the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady, she appeared in 1975 as an ex-Hollywood song and dance actress opposite Peter Falk and John Payne. The episode features a video of Leigh from the film Walking My Baby Back Home (1953). The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is one of her many guest appearances on television programs. In which she played a sadistic Thrush agent named Miss Dyketon, a two-part episode of "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" was a highly controversial role for mainstream television at the time. The two-part series appeared in Europe as The Spy in the Green Hat (1967) a family film. She appeared in the title role in the 1970s film "Jenny." She appeared in the episode "Beginner's Luck" of the romantic anthology film Love Story in 1973.

In the original Broadway production of Murder Among Friends, Leigh performed opposite Jack Cassidy on December 28, 1975. The play ran for seventeen performances, concluding on January 10, 1976. The play received mixed reviews, with some commentators who attended preview performances disliking the performance. Leigh appeared in a supporting role in Boardwalk opposite Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg in 1979 and was lauded for her "best job in years" by Vincent Canby of The New York Times in a scathing review. Leigh Leigh wrote four books in addition to her acting career. There Was a Hollywood (1984): She was a New York Times bestseller, and her first book, The Real World Was a Hollywood (1984), became a New York Times bestseller. Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller, published in 1995 by Jennifer McMillon. House of Destiny, her first book, published in 1996, delves into the lives of two friends who forged an empire that would change Hollywood's history. The book's success spawned The Dream Factory (2002), which was set in Hollywood during the time of the studio system.

In John Carpenter's supernatural horror film The Fog (1980), in which a phantom schooner unleashes ghosts on a small coastal community, Leigh appeared alongside her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis. In Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Leigh will appear alongside her daughter once more, as the secretary of Laurie Strode. Leigh appeared in "Doom with a View" (1987), as Barbara LeMay in an episode of The Twilight Zone ("Rendezvous in a mysterious setting") and the Touched by an Angel episode "Charade" (1997). On both Fantasy Island and The Love Boat, as well as Tales of the Unexpected, she appeared twice as different characters. Leigh began to interview people and appear at red carpet functions in the early 2000s. Her last film appearance appeared in the teen film Bad Girls from Valley High (2006), opposite Christopher Lloyd.

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