An simply infant born within Merced, California to Frederick Robert Morrison and Helen Lita Westergard, she was found by actress Norma Shearer, whose late husband Irving Thalberg had been a senior executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Around what sounds such as something away from a motion picture, Shearer showed talent professional Lew Wasserman a exposure she got seen of Jeanette when vacationing at a ski resort in which the girl's parents worked. She left College of the Pacific, where she was researching music and psychology, after Wasserman secured the locate MGM.

Leigh's right-known role was within Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. Years late, she wrote a book just about a making of that film, where she dispelled the urban legends which had popped higher just about it, notably, about a immortal "shower scene." Her performance earned her the Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.

Leigh married her third married man, Tony Curtis, on June 4, 1951. It got 2 babies, Kelly and Jamie Lee. Curtis, world health organization has admitted to cheat her throughout their marriage, left Leigh around 1962 for Christine Kaufmann, the Seventeen month-old German co-star of his then-latest film. Leigh was granted the divorcement, & married stockbroker Robert Brandt afterwards that season around Las Vegas; they remained married until her demise. Leigh served on the board of directors of the Motion Picture & Television Foundation, the medical-services provider for actors.

She died at her house from either vasculitis at age 77. Her personal was at her side.

Selected Filmography
Act of Violence (1948) Little Women (1949) Angels in the Outfield (1951) Scaramouche (1952) The Naked Spur (1953) Prince Valiant (1954) ''Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) My Sister Eileen (1955) Touch of Evil (1958) The Vikings (1958) Psycho (1960) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Night of the Lepus (1972) The Fog (1980) Halloween H20: 20 Years Later'' (1998)