known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by...
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Janet Leigh was an American actress of film, television, stage, and radio, whose career spanned over five decades. Discovered by actress Norma Shearer...
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Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy...
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Santa Monica, California, the oldest child of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her younger sister is actress Jamie Lee Curtis. Her paternal grandparents...
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as a nomination for a Grammy Award. The youngest daughter of actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, she made her television debut in a 1977 episode of the...
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actresses Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis with his first wife, actress Janet Leigh, and actresses Allegra Curtis and Alexandra Curtis with his second wife...
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Masterson's novel Badge of Evil (1956). The cast included Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff and Marlene Dietrich. Universal-International...
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are Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, with co-stars Janet Leigh, Henry Silva, and James Gregory. The plot centers on Korean War veteran...
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and a score by Johnny Green. Produced by Fred Kohlmar, the film stars Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson...
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character of Robert Bloch's 1959 thriller novel Psycho and portrayed by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation. She was later played by Anne...
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Bilderback, Jonathan Brandis, Janet Leigh, Christopher Lloyd and Suzanna Urszuly. The film marked the final film roles of Leigh and Brandis. Danielle, Tiffany...
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American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, and Millard Mitchell. Written by Sam Rolfe...
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for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps...
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noir directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor and Phyllis Thaxter. It was produced by Hollywood studio...
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romance film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. It was written and produced by Jules Furthman, and presented by Howard...
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romantic swashbuckler film starring Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, and Mel Ferrer. Filmed in Technicolor, the MGM production is loosely...
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Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist...
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pair had worked on were brought in to star, including Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and DeForest Kelley. Shot in Arizona, including scenes...
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model, Playboy cover girl and actress. She was the body double for Janet Leigh in the shower scene of the 1960 film Psycho. Renfro, described as a free...
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Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett. It was Hackett's film debut. Excerpts of the film are used in the Columbo episode "Forgotten Lady", in which Leigh plays...
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grandmother, is known for scream queen roles in the 1930s and 1940s. Janet Leigh, playing Marion in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), is regarded as the...
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CinemaScope comedy musical film directed by Richard Quine. It stars Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Jack Lemmon. The screenplay by Quine and Blake Edwards...
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American comedy film directed by Jerry Lewis and starring Jerry Lewis and Janet Leigh. Christopher Pride wants to marry his girlfriend, Dr. Elizabeth Acord...
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made-for-television drama film directed by Sandor Stern and starring Nancy McKeon, Janet Leigh, Thomas Joseph McCarthy and Alexandra Wilson. The film originally aired...
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film produced and directed by Don Hartman and starring Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, and Wendell Corey, with Gordon Gebert. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart...
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Other starring roles were taken by then husband-and-wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh as well as Ernest Borgnine. The film made notable use of natural locations...
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and set during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. It stars Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, Roland Culver, John Justin, and Earl Cameron, and was intentionally...
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with a cast that includes Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner and Shelley Winters. Goldman received a...
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the 1949 RKO film of the same name which starred Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. Cynthia Gibb as Jodie Ennis David James Elliott as Steve Mason Curtis...
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produced and directed by Clarence Brown and starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh. Based on a story by Richard Conlin, the film is about a young woman...
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