There really was a Hollywood

Janet Leigh

She was born Jeanette Helen Morrison in 1927, a shy, sensitive, extremely pretty only child of a teenage couple. As her parents moved from town to town and as bright Jeanette was skipped ahead grade to grade, she found comfort and continuity in her weekend stays with her "babysitter," the movies. By age eighteen, Jeanette was a senior in college and possessed three things: a devastating secret, a new marriage, and an uncertain future. And then Norma Shearer saw her photograph and took it back to Hollywood. This is the candid, passionate, often dazzling autobiography of one of the best-loved actresses in Hollywood, Janet Leigh, the star of such favorites as Little Women, My Sister Eileen, Prince Valiant, Touch of Evil, Scaramouche, The Vikings, Bye Bye Birdie, The Manchurian Candidate, and, of course, Psycho, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Focusing on the years...

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