"Psycho" star Janet Leigh dead at 77

[Dookus]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Hollywood movie star Janet Leigh, best known as the slasher victim in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "Psycho," has died, a spokeswoman for her daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, said Monday.

"Janet Leigh died peacefully in her home Sunday afternoon," said the spokeswoman, Heidi Schaeffer.

Leigh, 77, died in her Beverly Hills home surrounded by daughters Jamie Lee and Kelly Curtis and her fourth husband, Robert Brandt, Schaeffer said.

Leigh had been battling vasculitis -- an inflammation of the blood vessels -- for a year, she said.

Leigh married Brandt in 1962 after an 11-year marriage to actor Tony Curtis, the father of her two children.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/04/obit.leigh/index.html

[Zomby Woof]

1. One of the immortal sequences in movie history

Strange... last night I just ordered the movie special edition DVD for Halloween viewing...

[Kolesar]

2. My favorite Hitchcock film, by far

Leigh looked so lovely in that film. What was great was the contrast between an appealing figure and the criminal scheme she was performing. The film viewer had to have mixed feelings about the lead character as the acts unraveled.

I think that would be called "film noir".

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. I heard somewhere-

That Hitchcock used a double in most of the shower scene shots. If so, then it's ironic that Janet Leigh spent the rest of her life taking only baths.

EDIT-apparently I was wrong. Here's some more Psycho trivia:

http://www.saunalahti.fi/frog1/trivia/psycho.htm

[JuniperLea]

4. she will never be forgotten

don't fear the reaper, janet.

[Spinzonner]

5. I suppose now

they'll shower her with tributes

[terrya]

6. Oh, my. I liked her. Janet Leigh was great in "The Manchurian Candidate"

In the original "Manchurian Candidate", there is a very, very strange, interesting scene where Major Marco meets Janet Leigh's character on a train. Leigh was very good in that scene...as well as the rest of the film.

A good actress. She will be missed.