Celebrity Biographies
Janet leigh
Moviegoers remember her for her role in Psycho , where she was murdered in the famous shower sequence.
Janet Leigh (1927-2004) starred in several films that are part of the history of the seventh art. She was a movie myth, she died in Los Angeles on October 4, as a result of vasculitis. She was accompanied by her husband Robert Brandt, and her daughters Kelly and the famous Jamie Lee Curtis .
The actress was born on July 6, 1927, in the Californian town of Merced. Jeanette Helen Morrison, which was her real name, was a withdrawn girl who studied psychology and music after high school. At 17 she married Stanely Roberts, a bandleader who turned her into a dancer. She also worked as a model, which led to the actress Norma Shearer seeing a picture of her in a magazine one day. She was so impressed that she convinced her husband, producer Irving Thalberg, head of MGM, to audition her. In the end, she was given a permanent contract with the company, and the young Jane debuted with one of the leading roles in The Romance of Rosy Ridge . She soon after would become popular for Little Women., and also for marrying Tony Curtis , with whom she had two daughters, and who was her co-star in The Great Houdini , Black Shell , Vacation Without a Girlfriend and The Vikings . From the rest of Janet Leigh’s filmography, the magnificent Colorado Jim , Thirst for Evil , The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance , Harper, a Private Investigator and The Messenger of Fear stand out . She was already an established actress when Hitchcock cast her in Psycho ., one of his best works. It took her seven days to film the sequence of her murder, which left her a little traumatized, as she assured that she never took a shower with ease again.
In the 70s, she did not find great roles in the cinema for a mature woman, so she mainly took refuge on the small screen, in various series and TV movies. She also supported the career of her daughter Jamie Lee, with whom she starred in The Mist , and many years later in Halloween H20 .