Sleeve-board Helen Morrison , more known under the pseudonym of Janet Leigh , born the July 6th 1927 with Merced (California), dead the October 3rd 2004 with Beverly Hills, was an American actress .

Biography

Its most famous role undoubtedly is that which it held in Psychose , realized by Alfred Hitchcock. The scene of the murder under the shower, which owed a great part of its character with the music of Bernard Herrmann, had caused certain a faintness at the time of the exit of film, certain people not having understood that the scenario writer makes perish his heroin after 45 minutes of projection.

Janet Leigh had been the wife, of 1951 with 1962, of the actor Tony Curtis, with whom it made several films, of which, in 1958, the Vikings . From this marriage were born two girls, both become actresses: Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis.

Janet Leigh turned in 63 productions, including 9 for television. Its career took its take-off when the former actress Norma Shearer, who remained in the hotel directed by the parents of the young girl, its photograph within a framework noticed on the counter of reception. Undoubtedly finding the young girl particularly photogenic, Norma Shearer borrowed the photograph and the USA of its influence to enable him to turn a screen test, a few weeks later, in the studios of MGM.

Its first role was, in 1947, that of an ingenuous young person, Lissy Anne MacBean, in The Romance off Rosy Ridge , carried out by Roy Rowland. It was confined in this kind of characters in the first years of its career, before the producers do not allow him to diversify its repertory.

If one disregards role marking of Marion Crane in Psychose , which to some extent constituted - and with its defending body - the culminating point of its career, Janet Leigh also interpreted an unforgettable character in 1958 in the Thirst for the evil ( has Touch Evil off), under the direction of Orson Welles, film in which it côtoyait Charlton Heston, Marlène Dietrich, Akim Tamiroff and Orson Welles itself. She played there the part of Susan Vargas known as “Susie”, doped woman taken between the confrontation of two police officers.

She turned in an episode of Columbo. Janet Leigh had published its autobiography in 1984.

Its last appearance with the screen went up with 2000, in has Fate Totally Worse Than Death , comedy carried out by John T. Kretchmer.

Selective catalog of films

External bonds

  • '' Janet Leigh '' on Internet Movie Database

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