Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress.
<p>Leigh was born in Merced, California, the only child of Frederick Robert Morrison and Helen Lita Westergard. She was discovered by actress Norma Shearer, whose late husband Irving Thalberg had been a senior executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shearer showed talent agent Lew Wasserman the photograph she had seen of Leigh while vacationing at the ski resort where the girl's parents worked. She left the University of the Pacific, where she was studying music and psychology after Wasserman secured a contract with MGM.
<p>Throughout the 1950s, she starred in movies that well showed off her beautiful presence. Most notably taking the leading blonde role in the musical comedy My Sister Eileen, co-starring Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett and Dick York.
<p>Leigh's best-known role was as the morally ambiguous Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. But she found it hard to get good roles...
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