Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress. She was the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Discovered by actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in 1947. She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Little Women (1949), Holiday Affair (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), and Living It Up (1954).
In 1951, she married actor Tony Curtis, her third husband, with whom she co-starred in five films, including Houdini (1953), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), and The Perfect Furlough (1958). During the latter half of the 1950s, she played mostly dramatic roles in such films as Safari (1955), Touch of Evil (1958) and Psycho (1960), for which she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She continued to appear occasionally in films and television, including The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and two films with her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. On 19 April 1955, he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognisable directorial style. He pioneered the use of a camera made to move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. Through his cameo appearances in his own films, interviews, film trailers, and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became a cultural icon. Hitchocks reputation as a filmmaker is offset by claims that he engaged in obsessive and controlling behaviour towards many of his leading ladies, and that in some cases this extended to physical abuse and sexual harrassment.
Plot
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel, Psycho, over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Alfred's work even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, actor, actress, adultery, automobile, based-on-book, beach-house, black-humor, blonde
Good evening.
Behind every Psycho is a great woman.
Alfred Hitchcock: [after viewing the shower scene with Bernard Herrmann's score for the first time] It's getting there.
Alfred Hitchcock: I will never find a Hitchcock blonde as beautiful as you.::Alma Reville: Oh, Hitch. I've waited thirty years to hear you say that.::Alfred Hitchcock: And that my dear, is why they call me the Master of Suspense.
Alfred Hitchcock: My contract guarantees me final cut on all of my pictures.::Barney Balaban: It also states that Paramount doesn't have to release anything that might cause the studio embarrassment!::Alfred Hitchcock: As opposed to those last five Martin and Lewis pictures you're so proud of?
Geoffrey Shurlock: [In reference to the shower scene] The addition of a lyrical score will not change my opinion!
Alfred Hitchcock: You may call me Hitch. Hold the Cock.
Alfred Hitchcock: [to Janet] Hope you don't mind, I told Mrs Bates she could use your dressing room.
[last lines]::Alfred Hitchcock: Good evening.
Alma Reville: It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream, and her head. Charming. Doris Day should do it as a musical!
Rita Riggs: Is this really going to be your next picture?::Alfred Hitchcock: Yes Madam! Oh by the way, try the finger sandwiches. They are real fingers.
Alma Reville: Are we going to have to sell the whole house, or just the pool?
I had a dream last night, you see
I dream that you were here with me
I cry cause you're not really here
And every moment, everyday
I think of you in a special way
Oh baby please come back to me
Inside my love
Forever won't be long enough
To show you baby just how much
That I miss you
Inside my love
Bring back the joy
That only you can make me feel
Don't leave me with the memories
Of you inside my love
Inside my love
Who can say really what went wrong
To make us break for so long
But I know I want you here with me
And if you feel the way I do
Let's come together just us two
And we'll be like we're once again
Inside my love
Forever won't be long enough
To show you baby just how much
That I miss you
Inside my love
Bring back the joy
That only you can make me feel
Don't leave me with the memories
Of you inside my love
Inside my love
Cause I need you here with me
And somehow you can see
Just how great love can be
ohhh...
And every moment, everyday
I think of you in a special way
Oh baby please come back to me
Inside my love
Forever won't be long enough
To show you baby just how much
That I miss you
Inside my love
Bring back the joy
That only you can make me feel
Don't leave me with the memories
Of you inside my love
Inside my love
ohhhh... yeah...
Bring back the joy
That only you can make me feel
Don't leave me with the memories
Of you inside my love
Inside my love
I had a dream last night, you see