Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

July 6, 1927 · 99 years old

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…

Known For

21 titles
1
Psycho

Psycho

1960 · 1h 49m · Movie

A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.

8.5
2
Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

1958 · 1h 35m · Movie

A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation h...

8.0
3
The Fog

The Fog

1980 · 1h 29m · Movie

Local legend tells of a ship lured on to the rocks of Antonio Bay being enveloped by a supernatural cloud as it sank; the myth says that when this mysterious fog returns, the victims will rise up from the depths seeking vengeance.

6.8
4
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

1998 · 1h 26m · Movie

Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.

5.8
5
The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

1962 · 2h 6m · Movie

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

7.9
6
Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success

1957 · 1h 36m · Movie

A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

8.0
7
The Vikings

The Vikings

1958 · 1h 56m · Movie

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

7.0
8
The Naked Spur

The Naked Spur

1953 · 1h 31m · Movie

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

7.3
9
Harper

Harper

1966 · 2h 1m · Movie

Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

6.8
10
Night of the Lepus

Night of the Lepus

1972 · 1h 28m · Movie

Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.

4.1
11
Houdini

Houdini

1953 · 1h 46m · Movie

From his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.

6.8
12
Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot

1957 · 1h 53m · Movie

Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.

5.6
13
My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen

1955 · 1h 48m · Movie

After submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher.

6.8
14
Living It Up

Living It Up

1954 · 1h 35m · Movie

An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.

6.5
15
Pete Kelly's Blues

Pete Kelly's Blues

1955 · 1h 35m · Movie

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

6.3
16
Grand Slam

Grand Slam

1967 · 2h 1m · Movie

To pull off a daring diamond heist in Rio during Carnival, a retired schoolteacher hires four professionals who must contend with a revolutionary alarm system and a taciturn secretary.

6.8
17
The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

1947 · 1h 45m · Movie

In post-Civil War Missouri, friends, relatives and neighbors find it difficult to live harmoniously together knowing that some of them fought on opposing sides during the war.

7.0
18
Safari

Safari

1956 · 1h 30m · Movie

During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired to guide a lion-hunting-party, but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.

5.6
19
Two Tickets to Broadway

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951 · 1h 46m · Movie

Nancy Peterson and her friends want to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them.

5.5
20
Boardwalk

Boardwalk

1979 · 1h 38m · Movie

In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Isla...

6.2
21
Hollywood, No Sex Please!

Hollywood, No Sex Please!

2018 · 56m · Movie

The history of sexual mores in America and as shown in Hollywood films is examined, from early cinema through the Hays Code. The 1960s and the sexual revolution were a turning point in society, as reflected on screen.

6.1