Marion Cotillard naked and doomed: Psycho shower scene scream that turned Janet Leigh into a film icon. Marion Cotillard naked & screaming in ‘Psycho’ shower scene A few years ago – more exactly, in Feb./March 2008 – Vanity Fair published a series of images honoring…
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Top Ten Scream Queens: Barbara Steele, who both emitted screams and elicited same, is in a category of her own. Top Ten Scream Queens Halloween is over until next year, but the equally bewitching Day of the Dead is just around the corner. So, dead…
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Anthony Hopkins: Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins ‘Hitchcock’ poster: ‘Psycho’ style The Hitchcock poster above shares a few elements with the Psycho 1960 poster, such as the splitting of the image into various fragments featuring the film’s actors. And in Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock, about the behind-the-scenes goings-on…
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Janet Leigh Psycho star Janet Leigh, born Jeanette Helen Morrison on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California, would have turned 85 today. Despite a film and television career spanning more than five decades, Leigh is chiefly remembered for one role: the greedy (and unlucky) real-estate…
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Janet Leigh movies: The Manchurian Candidate 1962, with Frank Sinatra. Janet Leigh would have turned 85 on Friday, July 6. In her honor, Turner Classic Movies is showing eight Janet Leigh movies (see TCM schedule below), including one of her landmark motion pictures: John Frankenheimer’s…
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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…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror thriller 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…
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Wednesday, August 27, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: TCM will be showing several goodies on Tony Curtis Day, including Richard Fleischer’s rousing adventure epic The Vikings (1958), in which Curtis plays opposite his then-wife Janet Leigh; the highly enjoyable Blake Edwards comedy Operation Petticoat (1959),…
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Janet Leigh: Peaches-and-cream heroine became effective dramatic actress. Janet Leigh, discovered by former MGM star Norma Shearer, was one of the many pretty (and quite talented) actresses who were mostly underused and underappreciated by studio moguls, producers, and directors. During her years as a studio…
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Tony Curtis will talk: Remembering Some Like It Hot co-star Marilyn Monroe, in addition to spouse and co-star Janet Leigh, and spouse and co-star Christine Kaufmann. Tony Curtis will talk: Remembering Marilyn Monroe & former wives Janet Leigh + Christine Kaufmann For obvious reasons, we avoid…
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Beverly Tyler ca. 1945. An actress in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies of the mid-1940s, pretty Beverly Tyler never became a star though she did enjoy some popularity as a decorative – and very young (she was about 18 or 19 in the image above) – leading lady…