Janet Leigh
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1927-07-06
- Fallecimiento:
- 2004-10-03
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Merced, California, USA
Biografía
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum. Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
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Filmografía
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Tiburón: la historia definitiva
Retratos fantasma
Jamie Lee Curtis, un grito de libertad en Hollywood
Rat Pack
Yo soy Alfred Hitchcock
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
Hollywood, ¡sexo no, por favor!
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
The Making of 'Psycho'
Las chicas malas del valle
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
The American Nightmare
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
Hitchcock: La sombra detrás del genio
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
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Halloween: H20. Veinte años después
In My Sister's Shadow
Scene by Scene
E! True Hollywood Story
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Inside the Dream Factory
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Secret Lives
Tocados por un ángel
The Story of Lassie
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Intimate Portrait
Das Ei
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Los mundos fantásticos de George Pal
The Making Of Psycho III
Psicosis III
Más allá de los límites de la realidad
Night of 100 Stars II
Se ha escrito un crimen
Psicosis II: El regreso de Norman
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Matt Houston
Night of 100 Stars
La niebla
Boardwalk
Mirror, Mirror
Tales of the Unexpected
The Horror Show
Telethon
Vacaciones en el mar
Murder at the World Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Murdock's Gang
La larga noche de la furia
Ghost Story
One Is a Lonely Number
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The Deadly Dream
Colombo
House on Greenapple Road
Honeymoon with a Stranger
The Monk
Hello Down There
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Diamantes a gogó
El Espía del Sombrero Verde
Esclavos del pecado
Tres en un sofá
Harper, investigador privado
Kid Rodelo
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El agente de CIPOL
The Hollywood Palace
La hora de los famosos
Wives and Lovers
Un beso para Birdie
El mensajero del miedo
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Pepe
Psicosis
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Los Vikingos
Sed de mal
Amor a reacción
Safari
The Rosemary Clooney Show
Nightmare
Mi hermana Elena
Los blues de Pete Kelly
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Prisionero de su traición
Coraza negra
Viviendo su vida
Miss Glucksman Visits Hollywood
El príncipe valiente
Walking My Baby Back Home
El gran Houdini
The Oscars
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Colorado Jim
This Is Your Life
Fearless Fagan
Scaramouche
Just This Once
An Eye for an Eye
Come Back Little Shiksa
Un gran país
Two Tickets to Broadway
Ángeles en el campo abierto
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Re-Inforcer
Strictly Dishonorable
Fairfax Avenue
A Spot In The Shade
Nightmare
Watch On The Lime
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Bob Hope Show
What's My Line?
Negocio en vacaciones
La dinastía de los Forsyte
El Danubio rojo
Cuerpos y almas
Mujercitas
Acto de violencia
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border
Letra y Música
Las colinas de mi tierra
The Ed Sullivan Show
If Winter Comes
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Premios Globo de Oro