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Leigh was born in 1927 to Fred and Helen Morrison. She was an only child of wanderlust parents who switched jobs frequently, moving from city to city and apartment to apartment. Leigh escaped her household briefly at around age 15 when she eloped, marrying a 19-year-old man named John Carlyle.
Lying about her age, Leigh eloped in 1942 with John Carlyle, who was only nineteen years old himself. Leigh’s parents intervened because she was underage; they quickly had the marriage annulled. The dissolved union became a dark secret that weighed heavily on Leigh’s conscience.
Born Jeanette Helen Morrison on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California; attended the College of the Pacific; married John Carlyle, in 1942 (annulled); married Stanley Reames, in 1946 (divorced 1948); married Tony Curtis (an actor), in 1951 (divorced 1962); married Robert Brandt (a stockbroker), in 1962; children: (third marriage) Kelly Lee Curtis;
- Who Was Janet Leigh?
- Early Life
- Acclaimed Actress and 'Psycho'
- Later Years
Actress Janet Leigh's first film was The Romance of Rosy Ridge in 1947. She was cast in a number of films in the late 1940s and early 1950s. For her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho(1960), she won a Golden Globe Award. In the mid-1960s, she started acting in television movies and minor films. She died on October 3, 2004, in Beverly Hills, C...
Screen actress Janet Leigh was born Jeanette Helen Morrison in Merced, California, on July 6, 1927. Leigh attended grammar school and high school in Stockton, California, skipping several grades and graduating at age 15. She studied music and psychology at the College of the Pacific. She was married twice at a young age, first in 1942 to John Carly...
Leigh was discovered by retired MGM actress Norma Shearer who saw a picture of her at a ski resort and recommended her for a screen test. Leigh landed an MGM contract, and her first film was The Romance of Rosy Ridge(1947), with Van Johnson. Leigh was cast in ingenue roles in a number of films in the late 1940s and early 1950s and worked with many ...
Leigh's career began to wane in the 1960s. She co-starred opposite Frank Sinatra in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and with Paul Newman in Harper(1966). She then appeared in a series of made-for-television movies and minor feature films. Leigh died at the age of 77 in her Beverly Hills home in October 2004 after suffering for a year from vasculit...
The actress married four times. In 1942, at age 14, she eloped to Reno with John K. Carlyle, but that marriage was annulled.
Oct 3, 2004 · Leigh eloped at the age of fourteen with John Carlyle in 1942; however, their marriage was annulled. In 1946, she tied the knot with Stanly Reames, but divorced after two years. Leigh then married her third husband, Tony Curtis, on June 4, 1951. They had two children, actresses Kelly and the better known Jamie Lee.
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Oct 4, 2004 · Leigh had been married twice before coming to Hollywood. Her marriage to John K Carlyle in 1942 was annulled and she divorced Stanley Reames two years after marrying him in 1946 Actor Tony...
