Janet Leigh - Biography

Jrue name: Jeanette Helen Morrison
Janet Leigh
American actress
She was born July 6, 1927
Place: Mercy, California, US
Only daughter of a Californian couple, her father was insurance agent.  
She died October 3, 2004
Children: Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis (actresses)

Marriages: Tony Curtis (actor) of 1951/ 1962, Robert Brandt (director) of 1962 / 2004, Stanley Reames (director of orquestra) 1945 /1948, John Carlyle 1948

1946 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

1958 Janet Leigh interpreted an addict "Susan Vargas " in Touch of Evil of Orson Welles with Charlton Heston and Marlène Dietrich

1960 Janet Leigh interpreted the role of her life in Psychosis, the young woman who was murdered by Norman Bats, in the film of Alfred Hitchcock, she received a Golden Globe as was nominated to an Academy Award.

1962 She acted with Frank Sinatra in the film The Manchurian Candidate

2004 She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California on May 14, 2004

2004 Janet Leigh passed away October 3 at age 77, in her house of Beverly Hills, United States

Filmography

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2000 A Fate Totally Worse Than Death de John T. Kretchmer
1998 Halloween H20: 20 Years- Steve Miner
1993 Ei, Das (voix) de Hans Georg Andres
1980 The Fog (La niebla)
1979 Boardwalk - Stephen Verona
1972 Night of the Lepus
1972 One Is a Lonely Number
1969 Hello Down There
1969 Ad ogni costo
1970 The Spy in the Green Hat