'Psycho'
Actress Janet Leigh Dies at 77
10-03-04
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(antiTainment) Screen legend Janet Leigh died
Sunday at the age of 77. Leigh will always be remembered for the shower
scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". That scene where Leigh's character
was stabbed to death in a shower is perhaps the most memorable murder in
film history; it also earned her an Academy Award nomination. Leigh
was never able to forget it, said that after she saw the final scene in
the film she was never able to take a shower again, opting instead for
baths.
A year ago Leigh was diagnoses with vasculitis,
an inflammation of the blood vessels. She died peacefully in her Beverly
Hills home on Sunday with her husband Robert Brandt and her daughters Jamie
Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis at her side, according to a spokeswoman for
Jamie Lee Curtis.
'Psycho' was not Leigh's only memorable
film role. Her career included over 60 feature film and television roles.
Most notable were roles in "The Manchurian Candidate" where she played
opposite Frank Sinatra and the Orson Welles classic "Touch of Evil" where
she played opposite of Charlton Heston.
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