Nancy Kelly

She never had a particularly successful adult career, although she did win a Tony Award for her performance in The Bad Seed, which she followed up by starring in the film version and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her family was at her side. Nancy was a child star, who had made so many movies by the time she was nine years old, that Film Daily called her "the most photographed child in America due to commercial posing.". She died at her home from vasculitis at age 77. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, she was the sister of actor Jack Kelly. Leigh served on the board of directors of the Motion Picture and Television Foundation, a medical-services provider for actors. Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 - January 2, 1995) was an American actress. Leigh starred in more than sixty films, including:.

Leigh was granted a divorce, and married stockbroker Robert Brandt later that year in Las Vegas; they remained married until her death. Curtis, who has admitted to cheating on her throughout their marriage, left Leigh in 1962 for the 17 year-old German co-star of his then-latest film. They had two children, Kelly and Jamie Lee. Leigh married her third husband, Tony Curtis, on June 4, 1951.

Years later, she wrote a book about the making of that film, in which she dispelled the urban legends which had popped up around it, notably, about the immortal "shower scene." Her performance earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. Leigh's best-known role was in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. She left College of the Pacific, where she was studying music and psychology, after Wasserman secured a contract with MGM. In what sounds like something out of a movie, Shearer showed talent agent Lew Wasserman the photograph she had seen of Jeanette while vacationing at the ski resort where the girl's parents worked.

An only child, she was discovered by actress Norma Shearer, whose late husband Irving Thalberg had been a senior executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 in Merced, California—October 3, 2004 in Beverly Hills) born Jeanette Helen Morrison was an American actress. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) opposite Jamie Lee. Bye Bye Birdie (1963).

The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Psycho (1960). Touch of Evil (1958). The Black Shield of Falworth (1954).

Houdini (1953). Scaramouche (1952). Angels in the Outfield (1951). Little Women (1949).