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Janet Leigh was an American actress and author, best remembered for her performance in Psycho (1960), for which she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and received an Academy Award nomination.
Jeanette Helen Morrison was the only child of Helen Lita (née Westergaard) and Frederick Robert Morrison. She was born in Merced, California on born July 6, 1927, where she also grew up.
At the age of 15 (pretending to be 18) Janet married 18-year-old John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada, on August 1, 1942. The marriage was annulled four months later, on December 28, 1942.
Her second marriage was to Stanley Reames, whom she wed on October 5, 1945. They separated in 1948 and divorced on September 7, 1949.
Leigh married her third husband, Tony Curtis, on June 4, 1951. They had two children, Kelly and Jamie Lee, who both subsequently became actresses. Curtis had divorce papers served to Leigh on the set of The Manchurian Candidate. The couple announced their separation to the press in March 1962.
On September 15, 1962, Leigh married stockbroker Robert Brandt.
Janet Leigh died at her home on October 3, 2004, at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack. After cremation, her ashes are interred in a niche in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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