Janet Leigh

 Jeanette Helen Morrison, born July 6th, 1927. She passed away on October 3, 2004 and was popularly known as Janet Leigh. She was an American actress. Her career spanned over five years. 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.Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). MGM gave her many parts in films that covered a variety of genres. These included the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948) as well as the dramatic Little Women (49), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (51), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western-themed drama The Naked Spur (53). In the 1950s, she played important roles in dramatic films such as Safari (1956), Orson Welles’s noir Touch of Evil (1958), and Scaramouche (1952). She co-starred alongside Robert Mitchum in Holiday Affair (1949) the romantic comedy. Her greatest success was as Marion Crane, in Alfred Hitchcock's psychotic thriller Psycho (1960). Leigh was nominated to win the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Intermittently, she continued to make appearances in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). In 1975, she made her Broadway debut in Murder Among Friends. Together with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis, she appeared in two horror movies: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20 twenty years later (1998).