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Leigh began her film career in 1947 at the age of 20. She appeared in 54 feature films in a career that spanned 58 years. Leigh was a versatile actress in acted in 8 different film genres, 5+ films. Here are Leigh's feature films in order by release date.
Janet Leigh was an American actress of film, television, stage, and radio, whose career spanned over five decades. Discovered by actress Norma Shearer , Leigh began her career appearing in several popular films for MGM which spanned a wide variety of genres, including Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), Angels in the ...
YearTitleRoleDirector (s)1947Lissy Anne MacBean1947Effie Bright1948Margit Mitchell1948Dorothy Feiner RodgersShe 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.
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Jeanette Helen Morrison was born on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California, the only child of Helen Lita (née Westergaard) and Frederick Robert Morrison. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Denmark, and her father had Scots-Irish and German ancestry. Shortly after Leigh's birth, the family relocated to Stockton, where she spent her early li...
1946–1948: Discovery and early roles
In February 1946, actress Norma Shearer was vacationing at Sugar Bowl, a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains where Leigh's parents were working at the time.In the resort lobby, Shearer noticed a photograph of Leigh taken by her father over the Christmas holiday, which he had printed and placed in a photo album available for guests to browse. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Shearer showed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) talent agent Lew Wasserman the photograph of the then-eighteen-year-old Lei...
1949–1958: Contract with MGM and independent films
Leigh appeared in a number of films in 1949, including the thriller, Act of Violence (1949), with Van Heflin and Robert Ryan, directed by Fred Zinnemann. Though a financial failure, it was well received by critics. She also had a significant hit with MGM's version of Little Women, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, in which she portrayed Meg March, alongside June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor. The film was generally well received by critics. Also in 1949, Leigh appeared as a nun in the a...
1958–1969: Critical acclaim and hiatus
In 1958, Leigh starred as Susan Vargas in the Orson Welles film noir classic Touch of Evil (1958), done at Universal with Charlton Heston, a film with numerous similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's later film Psycho, which was produced two years later; in it, she plays a newlywed tormented in a Mexican border town. Leigh would later describe shooting the film as a "great experience," but added: "Universal just couldn't understand it, so they recut it. Gone was the undisciplined but brilliant fil...
While in high school, Leigh married eighteen-year-old John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada, on August 1, 1942.[a] The marriage was annulled five months later on December 28, 1942.After a tenure at Stockton College (now San Joaquin Delta College), Leigh enrolled at the College of the Pacific (now University of the Pacific) in September 1943, where ...
Leigh died at her home in Beverly Hills on October 3, 2004, at age 77 after a protracted battle with vasculitis. Her death surprised many, as she had not disclosed her illness to the public. She was survived by her daughters Kelly and Jamie and her husband of 42 years, Robert Brandt. Leigh was cremated and her ashes were entombed at Westwood Villag...
There Really Was a Hollywood. Doubleday, 1984; ISBN 0-385-19035-2.Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. Harmony Books, 1995; ISBN 0-517-70112-X.House of Destiny. Mira Books, 1996; ISBN 1-551-66159-4.The Dream Factory. Mira Books, 2002; ISBN 1-551-66874-2.Honors
Leigh was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, on May 14, 2004, where she had attended college. At the time, Leigh's health was compromised by vasculitis, and she delivered a speech at the ceremony from a wheelchair.On October 13, 2006, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis unveiled a bronze plaque of their mother to honor her early life in Stockton. The memorial is located in the downtown Stockton plaza adjacent to the City Cent...
Sources
1. Capua, Michelangelo (2013). Janet Leigh: A Biography. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-47022-8. 2. Leigh, Janet (1984). There Really Was a Hollywood. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-19035-0.
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AnoTítuloPapelNota Do Usuário1998Norma Watson3,51988Barbara LeMay-1987Cornelia Montaigne Harper3,51984O Barco do Amor - Temporada 8 Episódio ..._-Principais filmes e séries. Fotos. Notícias. Descubra os melhores filmes e séries de Janet Leigh. 1. Psicose. Atividade : Atriz. Usuários. 4,6. Meus amigos. -- Uma secretária, fugindo após um...
6 de jul. de 2016 · Listas. Os Melhores Filmes de Janet Leigh. Por. Carla Marinho Leal. - 6 de julho de 2016. 1126. Janet Leigh é hoje lembrada como a atriz que realizou a famosa cena do chuveiro no filme de Alfred Hitchcock, mas teve uma carreira repleta de grandes sucessos.
