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Janet Leigh
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Leigh's first year in films was 1947, when she made both If Winter Comes and The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Leigh's final film was A Fate Totally Worse Than Death (2000). In between, some of her most notable films included: Hills of Home (1948), Act of Violence (1948), Words and Music (1948), Holiday Affair (1949), That Forsyte Woman (1949), Little Women (1949), It's a Big Country (1951), Angels in the Outfield (1951), Strictly Dishonorable (1951), Scaramouche (1952), Houdini (1953), Walking My Baby Back Home (1953), Prince Valiant (1954), Rogue Cop (1954), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Living It Up (1954), My Sister Eileen (1955), Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), Jet Pilot (1957), The Vikings (1958), Touch of Evil (1958), The Perfect Furlough (1959), Who Was That Lady? (1960), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Three on a Couch (1966), Harper (1966), John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
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In a bizarre Benny Hill segment, young blond Sue Upton, aping Janet Leigh, walks upstairs to the shower, followed by a murderous television set. When she starts showering, the set attacks; she looks out of the shower stall and screams, as the screeching violins from the movie play; the last shot in the scene is the light playing on the shower drain and Upton has disappeared!
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Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is an unsuccessful writer who lives in a forlorn New York tenement while his wife Bertie (Janet Leigh) earns an income for both of them. Their lives change dramatically when Bill's first novel becomes a best-seller. Bill persuades Bertie to quitRead More
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Like Louise Brooks and James Dean, Janet Leigh has come to embody a potent vision of cinematic modernity. Actors who do this are not great in a theatrical sense, which is why Katherine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier could never have been icons in the way Brooks, Dean, and Leigh have become. Theirs is less the "presence by accumulation which characterises classical acting" as French theorist Nicole Brenez puts it. More the vivid brush strokes of affect vivified by the dynamic interaction of presence and absence which only cinema can confer: the Brooks bob, her profile, that sad face glimpsed amongst a crowd of Weimar revellers. In short, they are products of the plasticity of cinema and the rush of modern urban life. It is significant that these actors' reputations rest on few films, for their renown ... depends upon a cultural purchase so fleeting and astute that an entire oeuvre can diffuse the light.
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In 1962 Janet starred in the original screen production of The Manchurian Candidate along side Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury. The movie was remade in 2004 and starred Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright.
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Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle weary men and convinces the brass to let her try it on selected men stationed at her base. According to her plan, selected men would be given three weeks, tailor made to fitRead More
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