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  1. Ill-advised by a pal, a chemistry professor falsely claims to be an undercover FBI agent to cover up his marital infidelity; his wife swallows his life, but it gets him in trouble with the real FBI, the CIA, and the KGB. Director: George Sidney | Stars: Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, James Whitmore.

    • 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...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Janet_LeighJanet Leigh - Wikipedia

    Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .

  3. Jul 11, 2023 · Following their separation, she was in a relationship with Stanley Reames from 1945 to 1949. Janet Leigh's ex-husband, Tony Curtis SOURCE: Source: Vanity Fair YouTube Channel. After her relationship with Reames ended, Leigh entered into a marriage with Tony Curtis in 1951, which lasted until 1962. Curtis was also a well-known actor, and the ...

  4. Dec 26, 2023 · Stanley Reames was the second husband of Janet Leigh. Advertisement Stanley Harold Reames, born on August 6, 1923, in the heartland of Kansas City, Missouri, was the son of Virgil Ewan Reames and Edith Claire Gardner Reames. Stanley’s early years in Missouri laid the foundation for a life that would intersect with the glitz of […]

  5. Leigh had two early marriages to local men in Stockton, John Carlisle and Stanley Reames, though each marriage lasted less than three years. In 1951, just three years into her career as an actress, she married heartthrob Tony Curtis, with whom she starred in multiple roles and with whom she would have two children, Kelly Lee Curtis and Jamie ...

  6. Janet Leigh, center. 1951 "... Jeanette found out she was pledged to the sorority of her choice--Alpha Theta Tau! ...it was the personification of belonging, of being wanted." She married Stanley Reames in Morris Chapel and left COP in 1946... Left: Janet Leigh and Eddie LeBaron in front of Morris Chapel, 1951

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