Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh
Leigh in 1954
Born	Jeanette Helen Morrison (1927-07-06)July 6, 1927 Merced, California, U.S.
Died	October 3, 2004(2004-10-03) (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Alma mater	University of the Pacific
Occupations	Actress singer dancer author
Years active	1947–2004
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	John Carlisle ​ ​ (m. 1942; ann. 1942)​ Stanley Reames ​ ​ (m. 1945; div. 1949)​ Tony Curtis ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1962)​ Robert Brandt ​ (m. 1962)​
Children	Kelly Curtis Jamie Lee Curtis

Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at age eighteen by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leigh had her first formal foray into acting appearing in radio programs before making her film debut in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947).

Early in her career, she appeared in several popular films for MGM which spanned a wide variety of genres, including Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Spur (1953), and Living It Up (1954). Leigh played mostly dramatic roles during the latter half of the 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958), but achieved her most lasting recognition as the doomed Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Her highly publicized marriage to actor Tony Curtis ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh scaled back her career. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). In late 1975, she made her Broadway debut 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. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.

Early life

The only child of Helen Lita (née Westergaard) and Frederick Robert Morrison, Leigh was born Jeanette Helen Morrison on July 6, 1927 in Merced, California. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Denmark, and her father had Scots-Irish and German ancestry. Shortly after Leigh's birth, the family relocated to Stockton, where she spent her early life. She was brought up in poverty, as her father struggled to support the family with his factory employment, and he took various additional jobs after the Great Depression.

Leigh was raised Presbyterian and sang in the local church choir throughout her childhood. In 1941, when her paternal grandfather became terminally ill, the family relocated to Merced where they moved into her grandparents' home. She attended Weber Grammar School in Stockton, and later Stockton High School. Leigh excelled in academics and graduated from high school at age sixteen.

In September 1943, she enrolled at the College of the Pacific (now University of the Pacific), where she majored in music and psychology. While in college, she joined the Alpha Theta Tau sorority, and also sang with the college's a cappella choir. In order to help support her family, she spent Christmas and summer vacations working at retail shops and dime stores, as well as working at the college's information desk during her studies.

Career

Discovery and radio appearances

Leigh pictured at age eighteen; actress Norma Shearer helped facilitate her contract with MGM based on this photo

In the winter of 1945–6, actress Norma Shearer was vacationing at Sugar Bowl, a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains where Leigh's parents were working at the time. In the resort lobby, Shearer noticed a photograph of Leigh taken by the ski club photographer over the Christmas holiday, which he had printed and placed in a photo album available for guests to browse.

Upon returning to Los Angeles, Shearer showed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) talent agent Lew Wasserman the photograph of the then-eighteen-year-old Leigh (Shearer's late husband Irving Thalberg had been a senior executive at MGM). She would later recall that "that smile made it the most fascinating face I had seen in years. I felt I had to show that face to somebody at the studio."

Through her association with MGM, Shearer was able to facilitate screen tests for Leigh with Selena Royle, after which Wasserman negotiated a contract for her, despite her having no acting experience. Leigh dropped out of college that year, and was soon placed under the tutelage of drama coach Lillian Burns.

Prior to beginning her film career, Leigh was a guest star on the radio dramatic anthology The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players. Her initial appearance on radio at age 19 was in the program's production "All Through the House," a Christmas special that aired on December 24, 1946.

MGM

Leigh in the trailer for Little Women (1949)

Leigh made her film debut in the big budget film The Romance of Rosy Ridge in 1947, as the romantic interest of Van Johnson's character. She got the role when performing Phyllis Thaxter's long speech in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo for the head of the studio talent department. During the shooting, Leigh's name was first changed to "Jeanette Reames", then to "Janet Leigh" and finally back to her birth name "Jeanette Morrison", because "Janet Leigh" resembled Vivien Leigh too much. However, Johnson did not like the name and it was finally changed back to "Janet Leigh" (pronounced "Lee").

Leigh initially left college for a film career, but enrolled in night school at the University of Southern California in 1947.

Leigh on the set of The Red Danube (1950)

Immediately after the film's release, Leigh was cast opposite Walter Pidgeon and Deborah Kerr in If Winter Comes (1947). Furthermore, due to the box office success of The Romance of Rosy Ridge, Leigh and Johnson were teamed up again in a film project called The Life of Monty Stratton in August 1947. The project was eventually shelved and released in 1949 as The Stratton Story, starring James Stewart and June Allyson. Another film that Leigh was set to star in, before being replaced, was Alias a Gentleman, in which she was cast in April 1947.

By late 1947, Leigh was occupied with the shooting of the Lassie film Hills of Home (1948), her third movie and the first in which she received star billing. She had a cameo as herself in MGM's all-star musical, Words and Music (1948).

In late 1948, Leigh was hailed the "No. 1 glamour girl" of Hollywood, although known for her polite, generous and down-to-earth persona.

Leigh appeared in the thriller, Act of Violence (1949), with Van Heflin and Robert Ryan, directed by Fred Zinnemann. It lost money although was well received.

Leigh had a big hit with MGM's version of Little Women (1949), based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, playing Meg, alongside June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor. She was then in the anti-communist drama The Red Danube (1949), which earned her critical acclaim.

Leigh was Glenn Ford's love interest in The Doctor and the Girl (1949), and was June Forsyte in That Forsyte Woman (1949) with Greer Garson and Errol Flynn.

RKO borrowed her to play Robert Mitchum's leading lady in Holiday Affair (1949). She stayed at that studio to appear opposite John Wayne in Jet Pilot, which was not released until 1957.

Tony Curtis

Leigh's fame shot up when she married Tony Curtis, a romance much covered in the fan magazines at the time. From 1951-54 Leigh and Curtis appeared in numerous home movies directed by their friend Jerry Lewis. Leigh credited the experimental and informal nature of these films for allowing her to stretch her acting ability and attempt new roles.

At MGM she appeared in Strictly Dishonorable (1951), a flop comedy with Enzio Pinza. More popular was the the baseball farce Angels in the Outfield (1951).

RKO borrowed her for a musical Two Tickets to Broadway (1951). Back at MGM she was one of many stars in It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952) and did a romantic comedy with Peter Lawford, Just This Once (1952).

Leigh had a huge success with the swashbuckler Scaramouche (1952), with Stewart Granger and Eleanor Parker. She was top billed in Fearless Fagan (1952) and appeared with James Stewart in The Naked Spur (1953), a popular Western. Less well received was Confidentially Connie (1953) with Van Johnson.

Paramount borrowed her and Curtis for Houdini (1953), their first feature film together. Leigh was loaned to Universal for a musical with Donald O'Connor, Walking My Baby Back Home (1953), then she went to Fox to play Robert Wagner's love interest in Prince Valiant (1954).

In 1953, Leigh and her husband had appeared as guests on Martin and Lewis' Colgate Comedy Hour, and then she had a supporting role in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy Living It Up (1954) at Paramount.

Universal borrowed her for a second film with Curtis, another swashbuckler The Black Shield of Falworth (1954). Then she made Rogue Cop (1954) with Robert Taylor, after which she left MGM. She had been there eight years. She also signed a contract with Columbia to make one film a year for five years.

Leigh made Pete Kelly's Blues (1954) for Jack Webb then appeared in her first movie under the deal with Columbia: the title role in the musical comedy My Sister Eileen (1955), co-starring Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett and Dick York.

Columbia put her in Safari (1956) opposite Victor Mature, shot in Kenya for Warwick Pictures.

Leigh made her TV debt in an episode of Schlitz Playhouse, "Carriage from Britain". Jet Pilot was released in 1957.

Leigh in Touch of Evil (1958)

In 1958, Leigh starred as Susan Vargas in the Orson Welles film noir classic Touch of Evil (1958), done at Universal with Charlton Heston, a film with numerous similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's later film Psycho, which was produced two years after Touch of Evil; in it, she plays a tormented newlywed in a Mexican border town. Leigh would later describe shooting the film as a "great experience," but added: "Universal just couldn't understand it, so they recut it. Gone was the undisciplined but brilliant film Orson had made."

She made her fourth film with Curtis, The Vikings (1958), produced by Kirk Douglas who also starred; United Artists distributed. The couple were reunited in The Perfect Furlough (1958) a Blake Edwards-directed romantic comedy for Universal, and Who Was That Lady? (1960), a farce for Columbia.

Psycho

In 1960, Leigh was cast in her most well-known role, as the morally-ambiguous murder victim Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), co-starring with John Gavin and Anthony Perkins, and released by Universal. Leigh was reportedly so traumatized by filming her character's shower murder scene that she went to great lengths to avoid showers for the rest of her life. For her performance, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Leigh's role in Psycho became career-defining, and she later commented: "I've been in a great many films, but I suppose if an actor can be remembered for one role then they're very fortunate. And in that sense I'm fortunate." Her character's death early in the film has been noted as historically relevant by film scholars as it violated narrative conventions of the time, while her murder scene itself is considered among both critics and film scholars to be one of the most iconic scenes in film history.

Leigh and Curtis both had cameos in Columbia's all-star Pepe (1960). The marriage ended soon afterwards.

In the following decade, Leigh had starring roles in many other films, including the stark drama The Manchurian Candidate (1962) with Frank Sinatra, and the musical comedy Bye Bye Birdie (1963) based on the hit Broadway show. She was also in Wives and Lovers (1963) for Hal Wallis at Paramount.

Hiatus

Following these films, the recently divorced/remarried Leigh took a break from her acting career and turned down several roles, including the role of Simone Clouseau in The Pink Panther, because she did not want to go off on location and away from her family.

She returned with Kid Rodelo (1966) then played portrayed Paul Newman's estranged wife in the private-detective story Harper (1966) opposite Lauren Bacall, and appeared with Jerry Lewis for the comedy Three on a Couch (1966).

She also appeared in a lead role in An American Dream (1966), based on the Norman Mailer novel of the same name; the film received critical backlash, with a review in The New York Times deeming it the worst film of the year.

Television

Leigh worked frequently in television from the late 1960s onward. Her initial television appearances were on anthology programs such as Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre and The Red Skelton Hour, and later, Tales of the Unexpected. She also starred in several made-for-TV films, most notably the off-length (135 minutes instead of the usual 100) The House on Greenapple Road, which premiered on ABC in January 1970 to high ratings.

In 1972, Leigh starred in the science fiction film Night of the Lepus with Stuart Whitman as well as the drama One Is a Lonely Number with Trish Van Devere. In 1975, she played a retired Hollywood song and dance star opposite Peter Falk and John Payne in the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady. The episode utilizes footage of Leigh from the film Walking My Baby Back Home (1953).

Her many guest appearances on television series include The Man from U.N.C.L.E. two-part episode, "The Concrete Overcoat Affair", in which she played a sadistic Thrush agent named Miss Dyketon, a highly provocative role for mainstream television at the time. The two-part episode was released in Europe as a feature film entitled The Spy in the Green Hat (1967). She also appeared in the title role in The Virginian episode "Jenny" (1970), the Murder, She Wrote episode "Doom with a View" (1987), as Barbara LeMay in an episode of The Twilight Zone (1989) and the Touched by an Angel episode "Charade" (1997). She guest-starred twice as different characters on both Fantasy Island and The Love Boat. In 1973, she appeared in the episode "Beginner's Luck" of the romantic anthology series Love Story.

Leigh made her stage debut opposite Jack Cassidy in the original Broadway production of Murder Among Friends, which opened at the Biltmore Theatre on December 28, 1975. The play ran for seventeen performances, closing on January 10, 1976. The play received varied reviews, with some critics from preview screenings disliking the show. In 1979, Leigh appeared in a supporting role in Boardwalk opposite Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg, and received critical praise, with Vincent Canby of The New York Times lauding it as her "best role in years."

Leigh subsequently appeared opposite her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, in John Carpenter's supernatural horror film The Fog (1980), in which a phantom schooner unleashes ghosts on a small coastal community. Leigh would appear opposite her daughter once again in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), playing the secretary of Laurie Strode. Her final film credit was in the teen film Bad Girls from Valley High (2005), opposite Christopher Lloyd.

Writing

In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also authored four books. Her first, the memoir There Really Was a Hollywood (1984), became a New York Times bestseller. In 1995, she published the non-fiction book Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. In 1996, she published her first novel, House of Destiny, which explored the lives of two friends who forged an empire that would change the course of Hollywood's history. The book's success spawned a follow-up novel, The Dream Factory (2002), which was set in Hollywood during the height of the studio system.

Personal life

Leigh with husband Tony Curtis, 1954

During her final year of high school at age fifteen, Leigh married eighteen-year-old John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada, on August 1, 1942. The marriage was annulled four months later on December 28, 1942. While a student at the College of the Pacific, Leigh met Stanley Reames, a U.S. Navy sailor who was enrolled at a nearby V-12 Program. Leigh and Reames married on October 5, 1945 when she was eighteen; their marriage, however, was also short-lived, and they divorced four years later on September 7, 1949.

On June 4, 1951, Leigh married actor Tony Curtis in a private ceremony in Greenwich, Connecticut. The couple had two children, Kelly (b. 1956) and Jamie Lee (b. 1958), who both subsequently became actresses. Leigh and Curtis's marriage was widely publicized in the media, and a frequent topic in gossip columns and film tabloids. In 1962, Curtis had divorce papers served to Leigh on the set of The Manchurian Candidate. Leigh would later comment that their divorce was the result of "outside problems", which included the death of Curtis's father.

On September 15, 1962, shortly after her divorce from Curtis was finalized, Leigh married stockbroker Robert Brandt (1927-2009) in a private ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada. She remained married to Brandt for 42 years until her death in 2004.

Leigh was a lifelong Democrat and appeared alongside Tony Curtis at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in support of John F. Kennedy. She also served on the board of directors of the Motion Picture and Television Foundation, a medical-services provider for actors.

Honors

Memorial at Janet Leigh Plaza in downtown Stockton

Leigh was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, on May 14, 2004, where she had attended college. At the time, Leigh's health was compromised by vasculitis, and she delivered a speech at the ceremony from a wheelchair. On October 13, 2006, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis unveiled a bronze plaque of their mother to honor her early life in Stockton. The memorial is located in the downtown Stockton plaza adjacent to the City Center Cinemas, since renamed "Janet Leigh Plaza."

Leigh was honored posthumously by University of the Pacific with the naming of the "Janet Leigh Theatre" on the Stockton campus on June 25, 2010. The plaque at the theatre reads as follows:

Pacific's Janet Leigh Theatre - Made possible by a generous gift from the Robert Brandt and Janet Leigh Brandt Estate. The Janet Leigh Theatre was created to bind the experiences and friendships that Janet Leigh valued while a student at Pacific. This memorial is a tribute to her life and career in the Stockton region as well as her magnificent contributions to the Hollywood film industry as an actress, wife, mother and humanitarian. Dedicated Friday, June 25, 2010.

Death

Leigh's grave in Brentwood

Leigh died at her home in Los Angeles on October 3, 2004, at age 77, after a protracted battle with vasculitis. She was cremated, and her ashes interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

Filmography

Theatrical films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1947	The Romance of Rosy Ridge	Lissy Anne MacBean
1947	If Winter Comes	Effie Bright
1948	Hills of Home	Margit Mitchell	Alternative titles: Danger in the Hills and Master of Lassie
1948	Words and Music	Dorothy Feiner Rodgers
1949	How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border		Short film
1949	Act of Violence	Edith Enley
1949	Little Women	Meg March
1949	The Red Danube	Maria Buhlen
1949	The Doctor and the Girl	Evelyn Heldon	Alternative title: Bodies and Souls
1949	That Forsyte Woman	June Forsyte	Alternative title: The Forsyte Saga
1949	Holiday Affair	Connie Ennis
1951	Strictly Dishonorable	Isabelle Perry
1951	Angels in the Outfield	Jennifer Paige
1951	Two Tickets to Broadway	Nancy Peterson
1951	It's a Big Country	Rosa Szabo Xenophon
1952	Just This Once	Lucy Duncan
1952	Scaramouche	Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
1952	Fearless Fagan	Abby Ames
1953	The Naked Spur	Lina Patch
1953	Confidentially Connie	Connie Bedloe
1953	Houdini	Bess Houdini
1953	Walking My Baby Back Home	Chris Hall
1954	Prince Valiant	Princess Aleta
1954	Living It Up	Wally Cook
1954	The Black Shield of Falworth	Lady Anne
1954	Rogue Cop	Karen Stephanson
1955	Pete Kelly's Blues	Ivy Conrad
1955	My Sister Eileen	Eileen Sherwood
1956	Safari	Linda Latham
1957	Jet Pilot	Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
1958	Touch of Evil	Susan Vargas
1958	The Vikings	Morgana
1958	The Perfect Furlough	Lt. Vicki Loren
1960	Who Was That Lady?	Ann Wilson	Laurel Award for Top Female Comedy Performance (4th place)
1960	Psycho	Marion Crane	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Laurel Award for Top Female Supporting Performance (2nd place) Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1960	Pepe	Herself	Laurel Award for Top Female Comedy Performance
1962	The Manchurian Candidate	Eugenie Rose Chaney
1963	Bye Bye Birdie	Rosie DeLeon
1963	Wives and Lovers	Bertie Austin
1966	Kid Rodelo	Nora
1966	Harper	Susan Harper	Alternative title: The Moving Target
1966	Three on a Couch	Dr. Elizabeth Acord
1966	An American Dream	Cherry McMahon	Alternative title: See You in Hell, Darling
1967	The Spy in the Green Hat	Miss Diketon
1967	Grand Slam	Mary Ann	Alternative title: Ad ogni costo
1969	Hello Down There	Vivian Miller	Alternative title: Sub-A-Dub-Dub
1972	One Is a Lonely Number	Gert Meredith	Alternative title: Two Is a Happy Number
1972	Night of the Lepus	Gerry Bennett	Alternative title: Rabbits
1979	Boardwalk	Florence Cohen
1980	The Fog	Kathy Williams
1985	The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal	Herself	Documentary film
1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Norma Watson
2005	Bad Girls from Valley High	Mrs. Witt	Filmed in 2000; released posthumously (final film role)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	What's My Line	Mystery Guests	Appeared 3 times a Guest and once a panelist between 1954-1961.
1957	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Mother	Episode: "Carriage from Britain"
1964	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Carol Hartley	Episode: "Murder in the First"
1965	The Bob Hope Special	Herself	Television special
1966	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Virginia Ballard	Episode: "Dear Deductible"
1966	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Miss Diketon	Episodes - "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" (Parts 1 & 2)
1966	The Red Skelton Show	Daisy June	Episode: "Jerk Be Nimble"
1967	The Jerry Lewis Show	Miss Fagelter	Episode #1.4
1967	The Dean Martin Show	Herself	Season 3 Episode 4
1968	The Bob Hope Special	Herself	Television special
1968	The Danny Thomas Hour	Liza Merrick	Episode: "One for My Baby"
1969	The Monk	Janice Barnes	Television film
1969	The Red Skelton Show	Clara Appleby	Episode: "It's Better to Have Loved and Lost - Much Better"
1969	Honeymoon with a Stranger	Sandra Latham	Television film
1970	House on Greenapple Road	Marian Ord	Television film
1970	The Virginian	Jenny Davis	Episode: "Jenny"
1970	Bracken's World	Maggie Morgan	Episode: "The Anonymous Star"
1971	The Name of the Game	Glory Bates	Episode: "The Man Who Killed a Ghost"
1971	My Wives Jane	Jane Franklin	Television pilot
1971	The Deadly Dream	Laurel Hanley	Television film
1973	Circle of Fear	Carol	Episode: "Death's Head"
1973	Murdock's Gang	Laura Talbot	Television film
1973	Love Story	Leonie	Episode: "Beginner's Luck"
1975	Movin' On	Nina Smith	Episode: "Weddin' Bells"
1975	Columbo	Grace Wheeler	Episode: "Forgotten Lady"
1977	Murder at the World Series	Karen Weese	Television film
1977	Telethon	Elaine Cotten	Television film
1978	The Love Boat	Gail	Episode: "Till Death Do Us Part-Maybe/Locked Away/Chubs"
1979	Fantasy Island	Carol Gates	Episode: "Birthday Party/Ghostbreaker"
1979	Mirror, Mirror	Millie Gorman	Television film
1982	Tales of the Unexpected	Joan Stackpole	Episode: "Light Fingers"
1982	Matt Houston	Ramona Launders	Episode: "Who Would Kill Ramona?"
1982	Fantasy Island	Suzanne King	Episode: "Roller Derby Dolls/Thanks a Million"
1985	The Love Boat	Joan Philipps	Episode: "Instinct/Unmade for Each Other/BOS"
1985	On Our Way	Kate Walsh	Television film
1986	Starman	Antonia Weyburn	Episode: "Society's Pet"
1987	Murder, She Wrote	Cornelia Montaigne Harper	Episode: "Doom with a View"
1989	The Twilight Zone	Barbara LeMay	Episode: "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
1997	Touched by an Angel	Vera King	Episode: "Charades"
1999	In My Sister's Shadow	Kay Connor	Television film
2001	Family Law	Mary Sawyer	Episode: "The Quality of Mercy"

Radio appearances

Year	Title	Episode
1952	Lux Radio Theatre	Strictly Dishonorable
1952	Stars in the Air	Model Wife

Stage credits

Title	Role	Opening date	Closing date	Venue	Notes
Murder Among Friends	Angela Forrester	December 28, 1975	January 10, 1976	Biltmore Theatre	Broadway debut

Publications

• There Really Was a Hollywood. Doubleday, 1984; ISBN 0-385-19035-2.
• Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. Harmony Books, 1995; ISBN 0-517-70112-X.
• House of Destiny. Mira Books, 1996; ISBN 1-551-66159-4.
• The Dream Factory. Mira Books, 2002; ISBN 1-551-66874-2.

Works cited

• Capua, Michaelangelo (2013). Janet Leigh: A Biography. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-47022-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Leigh, Janet (1984). There Really Was a Hollywood. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-19035-0. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External links

• Janet Leigh at IMDb
• Janet Leigh at the Internet Broadway Database
• Janet Leigh at the TCM Movie Database
• Janet Leigh at AllMovie
• Janet Leigh at TVGuide.com
• Reelclassics.com Page
• Janet Leigh at Virtual History