‘Psycho’ Star Janet Leigh Dies at 77
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood movie star Janet Leigh, best known as the knife attack victim in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” has died at the age of 77, CNN reported on Monday.
“Janet Leigh died peacefully in her home Sunday afternoon,” Heidi Schaeffer, a spokeswoman for Leigh’s daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, was quoted as saying.
Leigh died in her Beverly Hills home. Daughters Jamie Lee and Kelly Curtis and her fourth husband, Robert Brandt, were at the home, Schaeffer said.
Leigh had been battling vasculitis — an inflammation of the blood vessels — for a year, she said.
Leigh also appeared in films such as “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), “Bye Bye Birdie” (1963), “Little Women” (1949) and “Touch of Evil” (1958).
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