Janet Leigh
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| Name: | Janet Leigh | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 77 (July 6, 1927 -October 3, 2004) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 21.618 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. 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. 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). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953). She played dramatic roles during the late 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958). With RKO Radio pictures she co-starred in the romantic comedy Holiday Affair (1949) with Robert Mitchum. Leigh achieved her biggest success starring as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Psycho (1960). For her performance, Leigh won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. Leigh had two brief marriages as a teenager (one of which was annulled) before marrying actor Tony Curtis in 1951. The pair's highly publicized union ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh remarried and scaled back her career. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. |
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Movies
An American Dream
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Parker clicks her fingers imperiously and mimes a drag to indicate to her boyfriend that she wants a cigar, takes a couple of puffs, and then burns him as he makes advances. She dangles and talks in another scene. Leigh smokes cigarettes in several scenes, throwing the butt on the office floor when she has finished. Leigh smokes in several scenes - but some are at a distance. One scene has nice side closeup |
Columbo: Forgotten Lady
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as an aging actress with dementia |
Jet Pilot
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There are four smoking scenes, but the director screws them all up. You might just catch a brief distant natural exhale, but only if you put the video into slo-mo. |
Just This Once
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smokingsides
Initially caught mid-exhale in the background, she follows up with another good drag and smoky exhale. Holds in two more scenes before a lovely lighting with inhale, smoke streaming from her mouth and nostrils - she hasn't quite finished her exhale as she starts to speak, so there's a trace of a talk-exhale as well. Picks up a cigarette in another scene, but never gets round to lighting it. |
Living It Up
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Smokes in one scene while flying to New York |
One is a Lonely Number
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[Van Devere] she smokes in one scene where she finds out the man shes going out with has a wife already. He says 'do you smoke' she answers 'sometimes' |
Pepe
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I don't remember the context of the smoking, this movie had many cameo appearances so may have been film excerpts. Leigh smoked a holdered cigarette with a mouth exhale and another woman had a nose exhale. |
Pete Kelly's Blues
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A brief holding scene. |
Rogue Cop
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smokingsides
Picks up a cigarette and accepts a light. The director cuts away as she drags. |
Safari
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She takes a fresh cigarette from her cigarette case and lights it from the butt of the one she is already smoking. |
The Perfect Furlough
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smokingsides
Has a couple of smoking scenes. In one she lights a second cigarette from the butt of her last one. |
Two Tickets to Broadway
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smokingsides
Leigh accepts a proffered cigarette and a light, exhaling from her mouth and nostrils, with some smoke clinging to her breath. At the gym, DeHaven dangles a cigarette on a rowing machine and Lawrence lights up immediately [when] her exercises are finished. |
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