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  • Janet Leigh dies - 5 October 2004
    Hollywood actress Janet Leigh has died in her home in Beverly Hills, she was 77.-The actress was best known for her supporting role as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic thriller Psycho. In the film she was stabbed to death in the famous shower scene - t

Janet Leigh - what members say


  • Psycho
  • Psycho review by A customer from London
    Rated - 4 stars Great Film, shame about the cropping. 21 April 2005
    ...ropping about a quarter of the picture? I was looking forward so much to seeing Janet Leigh's legs through her petticoat in silhouette during the opening scene, only to be...  
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • The Manchurian Candidate review by from West Sussex
    Rated - 4 stars See it before the remake 29 July 2004
    ...is uniformly brilliant. Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey are excellent in the leads. Janet Leigh shows breezy comic timing in her, sadly brief, scenes. The revelation for me, h...  
  • The Vikings
  • The Vikings review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars Celluloid valhalla 22 January 2005
    ...urtis is the slave with a secret, Kirk Douglas is the golden boy with a grudge, Janet Leigh is the feisty princess betrothed to someone shifty and camp Ernest Borgnine is...  

Janet Leigh - filmography


  • Fog, The - HD DVD Version (1979)
    Starring: John Houseman,  Janet Leigh,  Hal Holbrook
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumours of a secret as old as the town begin to surface and the people of Antonio Bay realise they are ..read more »
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  • The Fog on DVD (1979)
    Starring: John Houseman,  Janet Leigh,  Hal Holbrook
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director John Carpenter creates an old-fashioned campfire ghost story with THE FOG. Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumors of a secret as ..read more »
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  • Psycho on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Vera Miles,  John Gavin
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
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  • Touch Of Evil on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Janet Leigh,  Orson Welles
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Welles plays the racist Captain Hank Quinlan, a grotesque, troubled, and powerful figure who runs his small U.S. border town according to his own version of the law. Quinlan's brutishness and vulgarity contrast starkly with the idealism and playboy good looks of Charlton Heston as Mike Vargas, a ..read more »
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  • Living It Up on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Dean Martin,  Jerry Lewis,  Janet Leigh
    Director: Norman Taurog
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bus driver Martin (Carmelo Gomez) decides he has nothing to live for and opts to commit suicide. But then somebody makes the suggestion that, if he is going to die anyway, he might as well borrow $1 million from the mafia, have the time of his life, and then kill himself. Martin does just that, but ..read more »
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  • Scaramouche (1952)
    Starring: Stewart Granger,  Eleanor Parker,  Janet Leigh
    Director: George Sidney
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An 18th Century French aristocrat seeks revenge against the ace swashbuckler who killed his friend. To prepare for the impending duel, the nobleman takes fencing lessons from an acting group, and even takes on the role of "Scaramouche".
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Janet Leigh facts

5 most recent films

Bad Girls From Valley High - 2.5 stars
Halloween H2O - Twenty Years Later - 3.0 stars
Twilight Zone, The - Season 3 - 3.0 stars
Tales Of The Unexpected - Complete Fifth Series - 3.5 stars
Fog, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Columbo - Series 5 - 4.0 stars
Psycho - 3.5 stars
Touch Of Evil - 3.5 stars
The Vikings - 3.5 stars
The Paul Newman Collection - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Grand Slam - 2.0 stars
Night of the Lepus - 2.5 stars
Black Shield Of Falworth - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Houdini - 2.5 stars
Who Was That Lady? - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tony Curtis - 5 times - show films
Jamie Lee Curtis - 4 times - show films
Hal Holbrook - 3 times - show films
James Canning - 3 times - show films
Vera Miles - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Carpenter - 3 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 3 times - show films
George Sidney - 2 times - show films
Rudolph Mate - 2 times - show films
Paul Lynch - 1 times - show films