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4 OCTOBER 2004
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The screen star earned an Oscar nomination for her role in the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho
Iconic Hollywood star Janet Leigh, best known for her starring role in the Hitchcock classic Psycho, has died aged 77, a spokesperson for her family confirmed on Monday.
Mum to actress Jamie Lee Curtis – one of two children from her marriage to Some Like It Hot legend Tony Curtis – Janet passed away "peacefully, surrounded by her family" on Sunday, said the representative. The movie star had apparently suffered from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels, for the past year.
Discovered in the early 1940s, the pretty blonde film star would go on to share the screen with such famous names as Errol Flynn, Judy Garland, Gary Cooper, James Stewart and Orson Welles during her five-decade career. Her role in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Psycho earned her a best supporting actress Oscar nomination, and she won a Golden Globe for the part as well.
Born Jeanette Helen Morrison in 1927, Janet married four times – most famously to third husband Tony Curtis in 1951, with whom she had two daughters, Kelly and Jamie Lee, and most recently to writer-director Robert Grant, her spouse since 1962.
One of her last movie appearances, in 1998, was alongside Jamie in the horror sequel Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later.
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In later years she would also become known for her famous daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, whose father is Some Like It Hot legend Tony Curtis |
I had no idea that Jamie-Lee was her daughter. I am so slow sometimes. 
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very bummed indeed.