Janet Leigh dead at 77 (1 Viewer)

[Henry Gale]

Janet Leigh has died according to CNN.
The lady was 77 and had a good long life, but this just comes as a shock to me.
When I think of her vivacious personality, it's just too soon to see the actress in such films as Psycho, Bye Bye Birdie and Touch of Evil....gone.

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

Rest in Peace, Ms Leigh.
She was an excellent actress, and will be remembered for a long time. In addition to her excellent performances in Psycho and Touch of Evil, I recently enjoyed watching her in The Manchurian Candidate. Sad news.

My thoughts are with her family.

 

[SteveGon]

Very sad news. :frowning:

 

[Chuck L]

A true legend has passed away.

What a crappy way to start out a new work week.:frowning:

 

[JPCinema]

Very sad news. She was in so many and diverse films;
Little Women
My Sister Eileen
The Vikings
Wives and Lovers
Touch of Evil
Psycho
Manchurian Candidate
Bye Bye Birdie

My condolences to the family.

 

[Haggai]

RIP, a good actress and a great beauty.

I'll bet that we're going to see a new round of mis-characterizations of how long her character survives in Psycho. The shower scene happens about 48/49 minutes in (I'm almost sure of this, I don't own the DVD but checked this fact some years ago on laserdisc), with a total runtime of 109 minutes, so it's a little short of halfway through the movie. But this frequently gets exaggerated to happen earlier--"the star dies in the first third of the movie!... in the first 20 minutes!... in the first reel!!... before the opening credits are done!!!" I thumbed through a recently published Hitchcock biography that said, as a caption to a photograph (so maybe it wasn't due to the author), that it happens in the first 30 minutes.

 

[Kevin M]

Damn, another great is gone. My condolences to the family and especially Jamie who as I remember was exceptionally close to her mother.

 

[Steve Christou]

Sad news. One of the great screen beauties and so memorable as the doomed heroine of Hitchock's classic shocker.

RIP :frowning:

 

[Robert Crawford]

Very sad news! My she RIP.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movi...igh/index.html

 

[SarahG]

I heard this on my radio this morning coming to work! So sad. But what a long, full life and a great contribution to acting. RIP!

 

[StephenA]

Sad to hear.

 

[Bill McA]

Sad news indeed!

I'll treasure my memory of meeting her and Brian De Palma together 6 years ago.

 

[Peter Kline]

R.I.P.

 

[Haggai]

Whoa, Peter, what a picture! She wasn't naturally a brunette, was she?

 

[Robert Ringwald]

Truly depressing news. Another great one gone.

 

[Bill Huelbig]

I'll be watching "Psycho" tonight in her honor. And maybe "Bye Bye Birdie" too, just to prove how versatile she was.

 

[Kevin M]

As far as I know Mrs. Leigh was naturally brunette.

 

[Haggai]

Really? I think she looks even better in that picture that Peter Klein posted than she did in any of her movies that I've seen. And that's saying a lot, as any of us who've seen any of her movies can attest to!

 

[Matt Butler]

RIP Ms Leigh. :frowning:

God bless her and her family. Especially Jamie Lee.

I will watch Psycho and The Fog in her name. Its kinda funny though; I just added The Manchuiran Canidate to my Netflix que. (Never seen it)

 

[MatthewA]

I was actually thinking of Bye Bye Birdie, as it's the first of her films I ever saw, so I first saw her as a brunette.

This is pretty sad news. I had no idea she was ill.