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Janet Leigh
Jeanette Helen Morrison, known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress, businesswoman and author. Leigh was established as one of the earliest scream queens for starring in horror films, and is also known for starring in dramatic productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). She amassed several screen and stage credits over five decades, and received accolades such as a Golden Globe Aw…
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entertainment · American actress and author (1927–2004) · character actor · stage actor · television actor · film actor · actor · writer · also Janet Leigh, Jeanette Helen Morrison, Leigh
Born 6 July 1927 · Died 3 October 2004 · Q205314
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2026· 6 entries
“even a murderer. I discovered Marli was still alive. It turns out she”
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The Guardian: Field and French flourish for Wigan to boost title charge with victory at Leigh
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The Guardian: Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness
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Public attention spiked: 8,598 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 2,257, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 26,007 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11.5× the usual 2,257, with 1 article edits.
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2006· 1 entry
Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis unveiled a bronze plaque of their mother to honor her early life in Stockton
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2004· 3 entries
At age 77 after a protracted battle with vasculitis
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Died 2004-10-03.
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Leigh was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where she had attended college
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1996· 1 entry
Published her first novel, House of Destiny, which explored the lives of two friends who forged an empire that would change the course of Hollywood's history
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1995· 2 entries
“t been able to take a shower since the movie.”
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Leigh published the non-fiction book Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller
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1979· 1 entry
Leigh appeared in a supporting role in Boardwalk, opposite Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg, and received critical praise, with Vincent Canby of The New York Times lauding it as her "best role in years"
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1975· 1 entry
Played an ex-Hollywood song-and-dance star opposite Peter Falk and John Payne in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady"
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1973· 1 entry
Appeared in the episode "Beginner's Luck" of the romantic anthology series Love Story
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1972· 1 entry
Leigh starred in the science-fiction film Night of the Lepus with Stuart Whitman, as well as the drama One Is a Lonely Number with Trish Van Devere
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1966· 1 entry
Appearing in multiple projects: the western Kid Rodelo (1966), and the private detective story Harper (1966), in which she played Paul Newman's estranged wife opposite Lauren Bacall
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1962· 2 entries
Leigh and Curtis divorced, and she married Robert Brandt
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While Leigh was filming the thriller The Manchurian Candidate, Curtis filed for divorce
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1960· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (1960).
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Leigh played her most iconic role as the morally conflicted murder victim Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, co-starring with John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Anthony Perkins, and released by Universal
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1958· 2 entries
Leigh gave birth to her second daughter with Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis
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Leigh starred as Susan Vargas in the Orson Welles film noir classic Touch of Evil (1958), made at Universal with Charlton Heston – a film with numerous similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which was produced two ye
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1957· 2 entries
Josef von Sternberg's adventure-drama film Jet Pilot was released; Leigh was cast as the female lead opposite John Wayne in 1948, and producer Howard Hughes' constant re-editing would cause the film to be delayed almost
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The film Jet Pilot, which Leigh had filmed in 1949, was finally released
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1956· 1 entry
Leigh gave birth to her first daughter, Kelly Lee Curtis
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1954· 2 entries
Leigh had a supporting role in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy Living It Up (1954) for Paramount, followed by Universal's swashbuckler film The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), in which she performed opposite Curt
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Leigh signed with Universal and Columbia Pictures, starring in films such as the adventure feature Safari (1956) and Orson Welles' film noir Touch of Evil (1958)
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1951· 1 entry
Leigh married actor Tony Curtis in a private ceremony in Greenwich, Connecticut
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1941· 1 entry
When her paternal grandfather became terminally ill, the family relocated to Merced, moving into her grandparents' home
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1927· 2 entries
In Merced, California, the child of Helen Lita (née Westergaard) and Frederick Robert Morrison
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Born 1927-07-06.
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