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http://news.bbc.co...inment/3713626.stm
Janet Leigh, pictured in 2003, was the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress Janet Leigh, best known for her role in classic thriller Psycho, has died at the age of 77.
Leigh died peacefully at her Beverly Hills home on Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for her daughter, Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis.
Leigh also starred in acclaimed movies in the 1940s, 50s and 60s including The Manchurian Candidate and Touch of Evil.
Her Oscar-nominated role as the victim of a shower stabbing in Hitchcock's Psycho became iconic in the film world.
Her husband Robert Brandt and daughters Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis were at her side when she died, the spokeswoman said.
She had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels, for a year.
Her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1960 thriller, Psycho, saw her play office worker Marion Crane who was stabbed in the shower by cross-dressing madman Norman Bates.
"Perhaps more than any other actor, Leigh is not only associated with one film, she's associated with one scene," said Ian Freer, associate editor of film magazine Empire.
Nevertheless he described her career as "varied, successful and diverse", noting that Leigh ranked among the top 100 stars of all time in a 1995 Empire readers' survey.
The Psycho scene was compiled in 70-odd takes of two and three seconds each, for which Leigh spent seven days in the shower.
Although it was rumoured at the time that she was nude, but she wore a flesh-coloured moleskin.
The scene shocked audiences at the time because of its brutality, and was shot in black and white to make the scenes involving blood less distressing.
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Don't forget she also played Jamie Lee Curtis' secretary in Halloween H20 - there's a scene where they're talking, and in the background is the car from Psycho.
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