Janet Leigh
by Andre Soares
Actress Janet Leigh died on October 3 at her home in Beverly Hills. Best remembered as the screaming woman who gets stabbed a zillion times in the shower in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Leigh had a career that spanned more than five decades. Among her most important films are the 1949 version of Little Women (as Meg), Act of Violence (1948), the Western The Naked Spur (1953), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and Who Was That Lady?, (1960) the last of several films she made with then husband Tony Curtis. (Actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis are their daughters.)
She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Psycho, though her most challenging part was probably that of the wife of Mexican police officer Charlton Heston in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (1958). In the past year, Leigh had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
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like me that actress,is genial.