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First Name

Janet

Last Name

Leigh

Date of Birth

06 July 1927

Height

65.5

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Blue

Hair Color

Dyed Blonde

Place of Birth

Merced, California

Star Sign

Cancer

Date of Death

03 October 2004

Place of Death

Beverly Hills, California

Ethnicity

White

Claim to Fame

Psycho

Middle Name

Helen

Cause of Death

Vasculitis

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

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Wikipedia Text

Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 � October 3, 2004), born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Actor/Actress, Soundtrack, Other Crew

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Janet Leigh was the only child of a couple who often moved from town to town. Living in apartments, Janet was a bright child who skipped several grades and finished high school when she was 15. A lonely child, she would spend much of her time at movie theaters. She was a student, studying music and psychology, at the University of the Pacific until she was "discovered" while visiting her parents in Northern California. Her father was working the desk at a ski resort where her mother worked as a maid. Retired MGM actress Norma Shearer saw a picture of Janet on the front desk and asked if she could borrow it. This led to a screen test at MGM and a starring role in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). MGM was looking for a young naive country girl and Janet filled the bill perfectly. She would play the young ing�nue in a number of films and work with such stars as Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Orson Welles and Judy Garland. She appeared in a number of successful films, including Little Women (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), Scaramouche (1952), Houdini (1953) and The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), among others. Janet would appear in a variety of films, from comedies to westerns to musicals to dramas. Of her more than 50 movies, she would be remembered for the 45 minutes that she was on the screen in the small-budget thriller Psycho (1960). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this 1960 classic would include the shower scene that would become a film landmark. Even though her character is killed off early in the picture, she would be nominated for an Academy Award and receive a Golden Globe. Her next film would be The Manchurian Candidate (1962), in which she starred with Frank Sinatra. For the rest of the decade, her appearances in films would be rare, but she worked with Paul Newman in Harper (1966). In the 1970s she appeared on the small screen in a number of made-for-TV movies.

University

University of the Pacific

Full Name at Birth

Jeanette Helen Morrison

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Lew Wasserman, Edie Goetz, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Anthony Perkins, Frank Sinatra, Van Johnson, Evie Lynn Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, Tony Martin, Edith Wasserman, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Young, Rory Calhoun, Lita Baron, Diana Lynn

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