JanetLeigh.net is a tribute to Janet Leigh (b. 1937 - d. 2004), the legendary screen Actress!
This site features a film library, a bookstore, a poster store, several links of interest and a shop.
Screen actress, born Jeanette Helen Morrison, in Merced, California, on July 6, 1927, to an insurance and real estate agent. Best known for her shower scene in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho, and her marriage to actor Tony Curtis.
Leigh attended grammar and high school in Stockton, California, skipping several grades and graduating at age fifteen. She studied music and psychology at the College of the Pacific. She was married twice at a young age, first in 1942 to John Carlyle (annulled), and to Stanley Reames in 1946, ending in divorce in 1948.
Leigh was discovered by retired MGM actress Norma Shearer who saw a picture of her at a ski resort and recommended her for a screen test. Leigh landed an MGM contract, and her first film was The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947), with Van Johnson... [Read more...]
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