“Psycho” star Janet Leigh, 77
Posted: Monday, October 4th, 2004 3:51 pm
Janet Leigh’s most famous scene was so terrifying it put her off showers for the rest of her life.
Leigh, who died Sunday, insisted she always took baths after seeing the finished cut of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” in which her character was slashed to death in a motel shower in what may be the silver screen’s most memorable murder. …
Leigh died at her Beverly Hills home, with husband Robert Brandt and her daughters, actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis, at her side. She was 77. …
The blond beauty had 60-odd film and TV roles in a career whose highlights included playing Frank Sinatra’s romantic interest in “The Manchurian Candidate” and Charlton Heston’s abducted bride in Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil.” …
Leigh had been married twice before coming to Hollywood: to John K. Carlyle, 1942, the marriage later annulled; and Stanley Reames in 1946, whom she divorced two years later.
In 1951, she married Tony Curtis when their stardoms were at a peak. … Read full obituary
