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JANET LEIGH, 77,
coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitch-cock's
Psycho
; in Beverly Hills. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in
The Manchurian Candidate;
mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles'
Touch of Evil.
Even after she'd been killed in the
Psycho
shower (where a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh's unblinking eye held the viewer's. Decades...
