Janet Leigh

...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...

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...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)...

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...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";...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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),...

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...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...

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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...

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...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...

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