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Janet Leigh

Actress, singer, dancer Jeanette Helen Morrison, known professionally as Janet Leigh, appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With a career spanning over five decades she appeared in a variety of films, from comedies to westerns to musicals to dramas. Of her more than 50 movies, she is best remembered for the 45 minutes that she was on the screen in the small-budget thriller Psycho (1960).

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24 Hour Psycho

1993
as (archive footage)

78/52

2017
as Herself

Act of Violence

1949
as Edith Enley

Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense

2013
as Self (archive footage)

An American Dream

1966
as Cherry McMahon

Angels in the Outfield

1951
as Jennifer Paige

Boardwalk

1979
as Florence Cohen

Bye Bye Birdie

1963
as Rosie DeLeon

Chucky Invades Psycho

2013
as Marion Crane

Confidentially Connie

1953
as Connie Bedloe

Grand Slam

1967
as Mary Ann

Harper

1966
as Susan Harper

Hello Down There

1969
as Vivian Miller

Hills of Home

1948
as Margit Mitchell

Holiday Affair

1949
as Connie Ennis

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983
as Herself (archive footage)

Honeymoon with a Stranger

1969
as Sandra Latham

Houdini

1953
as Bess Houdini

If Winter Comes

1947
as Effie Bright

In My Sister's Shadow

1997
as Kay Connor

It's a Big Country

1951
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon

Jet Pilot

1957
as Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief

Just This Once

1952
as Lucy Duncan

Kid Rodelo

1966
as Nora

Living It Up

1954
as Wally Cook

My Sister Eileen

1955
as Eileen Sherwood

Night of the Lepus

1972
as Gerry Bennett

One Is a Lonely Number

1972
as Gert Meredith

Pepe

1960
as Herself

Pete Kelly's Blues

1955
as Ivy Conrad

Prince Valiant

1954
as Princess Aleta

Psycho

1960
as Marion Crane

Rogue Cop

1954
as Karen Stephanson

Safari

1956
as Linda Latham

Scaramouche

1952
as Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon

Strictly Dishonorable

1951
as Isabelle Perry

That Forsyte Woman

1949
as June Forsyte

The Best of Film Noir

1999
as Janet Leigh

The Black Shield Of Falworth

1954
as Lady Anne of Mackworth

The Deadly Dream

1971
as Laurel Hanley

The Doctor and the Girl

1949
as Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon

The Fog

1980
as Kathy Williams

The Making of 'Psycho'

1997
as Janet Leigh

The Manchurian Candidate

1962
as Eugenie Rose Chaney

The Monk

1969
as Janice Barnes

The Naked Spur

1953
as Lina Patch

The Perfect Furlough

1958
as Lt. Vicki Loren

The Psycho Legacy

2010
as Herself (archive footage)

The Red Danube

1949
as Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

1947
as Lissy Anne MacBean

The Spy in the Green Hat

1967
as Miss Diketon

The Vikings

1958
as Morgana

Three on a Couch

1966
as Dr. Elizabeth Acord

Touch of Evil

1958
as Susan 'Susie' Vargas

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951
as Nancy Peterson

Who Was That Lady?

1960
as Ann Wilson

Wives and Lovers

1963
as Bertie Austin

Words and Music

1948
as Dorothy Feiner Rodgers

the woman, a man's game

2009
as Janet Leigh