Janet Leigh
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Turner Classic Movies Brings Holiday Cheer to Movie Fans With Digitally Remastered Gem Remember the Night...June Allyson; Christmas in Connecticut (1945), starring Barbara Stanwyck; Holiday Affair (1950), with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh; John Ford's 3 Godfathers (1948), starring John Wayne; and Tenth Avenue Angel (1948), with Margaret... In this article: TCM, Remember the Night, Turner Classic Movies, Barbara Stanwyck, DVD, Fred MacMurray, Robert Osborne, Christmas Eve, 3 Godfathers, and Christmas in Connecticut |
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Village Voice | November 09, 2009
Jerry Lewis Retro at Anthology
...he turned 40, he cast himself as an actual artist, appreciated by the French and affianced to a professional therapist (actual star Janet Leigh). While the later films have their fans (see Fujiwara) and their moments, if fewer and further...
In this article: Jerry Lewis, Hollywood, The Nutty Professor, World War II, University of Illinois, and Three on a Couch
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USATODAY.com | November 01, 2009
10 Halloween-flavored treats for home viewers this weekend
...ad copy used "hear Bing sing The Headless Horseman" as a selling point. Houdini (1953, Paramount/Legend, $15) You're Mrs. Houdini (Janet Leigh) and coming off a wedding night partly spent in a wooden box that your husband (Tony Curtis)...
In this article: Halloween, DVD, Disney, Harry Houdini, Bing Crosby, Michael Landon, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Hocus Pocus
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L.A. Times - Movie News | October 30, 2009
Honored Horror: A century (sort of) of Oscar-nominated fright films
...Gray" Nomination: Best Supporting Actress, Ethel Barrymore, "The Spiral Staircase" Nominations: Best Supporting Actress, Janet Leigh, "Psycho"; Best Director, Alfred Hitchcock, "Psycho"; Best Cinematography, John L. Russell, "Psycho";...
In this article: The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Pan's Labyrinth, Oscar, Stan Winston, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Poltergeist
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New Kerala | October 28, 2009
Hitchcock's Psycho shower music named scariest movie theme tune
...theme tune, according to a new survey. The tune, composed by Bernard Hermann, reaches a crescendo when Norman Bates kills Marion (Janet Leigh) to death, which leaves her blood to pour down the plughole. It pipped Jerry Goldsmith''s Ave...
In this article: Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ring, Norman Bates, Hans Zimmer, Mike Oldfield, Bernard Hermann, Jerry Goldsmith, and Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | October 28, 2009
Psycho shower music voted scariest movie theme tune
...in Alfred Hitchcock's bloody Psycho shower scene has been voted the scariest movie theme tune. Published: 10:35PM GMT 28 Oct 2009 Janet Leigh in the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic thriller Psycho Photo: AP Composed by...
In this article: Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ring, Norman Bates, Hans Zimmer, Mike Oldfield, Bernard Hermann, and Jerry Goldsmith
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The Seattle Times | October 27, 2009
Big screen, big chills: Join Seattle Symphony for 'Psycho'
...landmark 1960 thriller begins as a sordid, noirish tale of illicit love and embezzlement. The central character, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), takes flight from her job and life with a stolen bundle of cash, ending up at a failing motel run...
In this article: Psycho, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Hitchcock, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Halloween, and Norman Bates
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New York Post | October 25, 2009
Reel Good
...great George Sanders and Barbara Shelley. Damned good. The Hitchcock classic about a gorgeous dame (Janet Leigh) who robs her boss and skips town. Her first night on the lam she stops at the Bates Motel and meets Norman (Anthony Perkins),...
In this article: Simone Simon, Jack Nicholson, Stephen King, George Sanders, Shelly Duvall, Anthony Perkins, Stanley Kubrick, and Kent Smith
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Northern Star | October 22, 2009
Must see horror films - Part 3
...Perkins delivers an absolutely perfect performance as Norman Bates in this Alfred Hitchcock classic, and Janet Leigh shows us where her daughter got her famous scream in "Halloween. " It is imperative to do everything you can not to watch the...
In this article: Evil Dead 2, Dracula, Matthew McConaughey, Sam Raimi, Ash, Phantom of the Opera, God, Halloween, and Norman Bates
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New York Times | October 22, 2009
Watching the Giants, and Ambushed by Zombies
It's all done by suggestion, so convincingly that viewers will maintain that (spoiler alert 1!) they saw the knife enter Janet Leigh's naked body and saw red blood going down the drain. The (spoiler alert 2!) murder of Martin Balsam is...
In this article: Zombieland, Hollywood, Halloween, AdBlock Plus, DVD, Celluloid, Firefox, and Fangoria
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The Seattle Times | October 22, 2009
Scary Movie Week continues: A look at Psycho
...it was a hoax that worked to the benefit of the picture and to the benefit of the audience who would ultimately be seeing it. On Janet Leigh's body double for (part of) the shower scene: Hilton Green (assistant director): We were one of...
In this article: Psycho, Joseph Stefano, Halloween, DVD, With a Friend Like Harry, and Anthony Perkins
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Description from Wikipedia:
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress.
Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s. She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Houdini (1953), in which she co-starred with her husband, Tony Curtis.
From the end of the 1950s she played more dramatic roles in such films as Touch of Evil (1958) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962), but she achieved her most lasting recognition for her performance as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). For this role she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Her acting career declined from the mid 1960s however she continued to appear occasionally in films and television, including two performances with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis, in The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
- Name At Birth:
- Jeanette Helen Morrison
- Birth Date:
- July 06, 1927
- Birthplace:
- Merced, California, United States
- Death Date:
- October 03, 2004
- Place of Death:
- Los Angeles, California
- Spouse:
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- Stanley Reames
- Robert Brandt
- Tony Curtis
- John Carlisle
- Years Active:
- 1947–1998
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