Janet Leigh was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Psycho, in which the credited star is killed at the forty-minute mark, which had never been done to an audience before.
She said afterward that she took only baths for the rest of her life. The scene took a week to shoot and contains no visible penetration at all.
Touch of Evil and The Manchurian Candidate show a substantial career outside it, and she worked steadily from the 1940s onward.
Her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis became a horror lead in her own right, and the two appeared together in The Fog and Halloween H20.
