Talk:Janet Leigh

Moleskin

why is this listed as a "see Also"?? It isn't apparent in the article.LiPollis 15:50, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I deleted it.Lestrade 20:53, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Lestrade

Mistake

I'm sorry! I was just trying to hyperlink something, but I screwed it up. I'm kind of new at this. If anyone could fix this, it would be much appreciated. Robert 2302 Robert 2302 22:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Books

These are listed, but not described. Apparently the retired Scream Queen had quite a lot to say about Hitchcock, temporary fame, and the role of women in horror films? 86.138.157.216 (talk) 23:32, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Sunset Boulevard

The Sunset Boulevard article tells its readers:

The season five premiere of Columbo, titled "Forgotten Lady", also drew heavily from Sunset Boulevard with its storyline of a former star involved in a murder in the midst of a vain attempt at a comeback which her husband, a physician and the murder victim, would not permit because she had a terminal condition that was destroying her memory and would kill her if she continued her attempt at a comeback. This time, the role of the aging diva was played by Janet Leigh.

Can anyone provide a source for this? If so, please do.

I do note that this article says:

In 1975, Leigh played a retired Hollywood song and dance star opposite Peter Falk and John Payne in the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady.

But there's no source for this claim and no mention of Sunset Boulevard.

(NB I'm not watching this [Janet Leigh] talk page.) -- Hoary (talk) 13:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

My wife and I just enjoyed watching the Columbo episode Forgotten Lady with Janet Leigh starring opposite Peter Falk and John Payne. We were reminded of Sunset Boulevard. She's great! — Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 06:20, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

before Janet Leigh

Famous people often exhibit an artificial presence; they are the gods of our era, the examples of our hopes for perfection, our standard bearers. We want them to be beautiful, and if they age, we want them to age well. We want them to be honest. We want them to be caring and generous. We, the adoring public don’t want to see the weak human within, the person with emotional flaws or irrational moments. We like most of that kept behind the theatrical curtain. Too much exposure disrupts our glamorized concepts. Years ago, Janet Leigh was a small town girl, but was never a simple small town person..

   This is a short story about Janet Leigh when she was Jeanette Helen Morrison.  She was born just before the great depression in Merced, California.  Merced was a cozy little town, maintained by agriculture.  Fred Morrison, Jeanette’s father tried to sell insurance, and then real estate at a time when people were more worried about having food on the table.  There were many young men struggling to feed their families in the depressing 30s.  He was determined to take care of his little family and cared deeply for his wife Helen and their little baby girl.  He took any job that he heard about and kept his family together during these hard times.
  Jeanette was a pretty child, and did well in school.  When she read in class, she would give each character in the story a little personality, and her classmates would prop their chins on their hands and listen.  Jeanette was one of those kids that learned rapidly and skipped from second to fourth grade.  Her teachers were motivated to accommodate her personal pace.
  Though she was slightly younger than her classmates at Merced high school, she still attracted attention from the boys in school.  One charming young man caught her eye.  It was Kenny Carlisle.  He was in her social studies class in the row just next to her.  They wrote notes to each other, and a romance blossomed.   Then, an event in late 1941 accelerated their lives.  America’s Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked by the Empire of Japan.  America’s involvement in the world war was started.  When Ken talked about joining the Army,  Jeanette was not happy. 
  “I want to get married!” Jeanette exclaimed when they were alone.  She adored Ken.  He was her first real boyfriend.  At 17, he was all grown up and nice...and never argued.  She liked to have control, to make the decisions.  Ken knew he had the cutest girlfriend in school, and they had shared some intimate moments.  He thought he loved her all right. 
   His buddies all wanted to join up to get those Japs and Hitler, and he felt a little sad to stay behind.  But instead of going to the recruiter’s office, he went along with his pretty girlfriend’s idea..  They gassed up Kenny’s Dodge pickup and took off for Nevada.
  Her Mother and Father went to all her girlfriend’s houses looking for her. . They had no idea where their daughter had disappeared to.  Then they found out that Kenny was gone too. When they came back all smiley and wiggling her ring finger, Helen Morrison hit the ceiling. Her headstrong daughter was barely 15 years old, just had her birthday a month or so  ago.  Here she was, doing good in school, might have been able to get a good job but only if she finished high school.  Helen and Fred wanted to take their daughter to the city offices and get the marriage annulled.  While she was curled up in a corner of the couch and bawling, Fred said, “Why would you do this?  Don’t you know how hard things are for Chrise sake?  You wanna be a waitress all your life?” Jeanette was angry at this interference.  Tears were flying. She wanted  to be with her husband Kenny. “Okay, Dad, what if I’m pregnant? What then?”   Fred looked at Helen as though to say, didn’t you teach this girl anything?  Silence filled the room.  Maybe we shouldn’t be so hasty, they thought.  In those days, a pregnancy without a husband was a complete social taboo, a shame that infected everyone in the family.
  A few months passed.  They gave in and let the young couple be together, and they lived in Kenny’s Grandmother’s house on 18th street.  The two young folks found that their romance and marriage was  tiresome. There was no baby on the way.  She came home.  Fred and Helen eventually decided to take their daughter and move away, not leaving word behind.  The four month marriage was over.  They relocated in Stockton, close to 100 miles away.  Kenny didn’t finish school, but did join the Army.  He came back in one piece after the war, and Jeanette went on to finish high school and attended College of the Pacific in Stockton.  It is now 1949.  One day, a person in the film industry saw a picture of the lovely Jeanette on Fred Morrison’s desk, and her new life began.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.52.202.162 (talk) 15:09, 28 August 2013 (UTC) 

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Main infobox image

I think a concensus is required to choose the correct image file for her infobox, most of people changes it constantly and this have to end now. Here are some options in which her frontal face can be seen and looking right to the camera:

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  Janet Leigh in Psycho 1960
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  Portrait of Janet Leigh in Photoplay, 1954 by Jones (Ray Jones ?)

My personal selection is the one from Psycho. It is one of her most remembered roles, she is looking right to camera, her full frontal face can be seen and she was on the prime of her career. TheBellaTwins1445 (talk) 18:13, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

As there was no concensus, I will change the image for the following one:

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And put the Psycho one on her filmography section instead. TheBellaTwins1445 (talk) 00:08, 4 July 2021 (UTC)