Janet Leigh Articles

Fay Wray, King Kong (top); hear Fay Wray's King Kong scream (middle); hear Janet Leigh's Psycho scream (bottom) Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, Mary Philbin, Jane Wyman: Top Ten Scream Queens Pt.2 5 – Janet Leigh, Psycho (1960). I don't recall myself recoiling in horror while watching Janet Leigh's shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, but I do recall quite vividly one night long ago when [...]

Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai Orson Welles' career as an actor was both fruitful and frustrating. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Someone to Love (1987), Welles appeared — mostly in supporting roles — in about 70 features made in various parts of the world. There was one brilliant performance in one brilliant film, Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane, but the rest [...]

Bye Bye Birdie lobby card (top); Bobby Rydell, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie (bottom) A digitally restored print of George Sidney's 1963 Elvis Presley-inspired satirical musical Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton, Jesse Pearson, and an explosive Ann-Margret, will have its premiere on Wednesday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel [...]

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho caused a sensation when it opened in June about fifty years ago. There were a number of reasons for that, one of them being the fact that Psycho was seen by some as a sensational, perverse, "cheap" horror flick like those William Castle, a master at promotional gimmicks, was making in the late '50s, e.g., The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill, Macabre. [...]