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90-438: The cue was composed for the famous "shower scene", the murder of Janet Leigh 's character, Marion Crane . Hitchcock originally wanted the sequence (and all motel scenes) to play without music, but Herrmann insisted he try it with the cue he had composed. Afterward, Hitchcock agreed that it vastly intensified the scene, and he nearly doubled Herrmann's salary. The score is divided into three main movements: The first movement of

180-477: A Christmas special that aired on December 24, 1946. She made her film debut in the big-budget Civil War film The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947), as the romantic interest of box office star Van Johnson 's character. She got the role when performing Phyllis Thaxter 's long speech in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo for the head of the studio talent department. During the shooting, Leigh's name

270-607: A cult following , and later came to be considered, as Carpenter opined regarding his creation, "a minor horror classic" though he also stated it was not his favorite film due to re-shoots and low production values. This is one of the reasons he agreed to the 2005 remake . On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 75% of 69 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "A well-crafted return to horror for genre giant John Carpenter, The Fog rolls in and wraps viewers in suitably slow-building chills." Metacritic , which uses

360-592: A femme fatale lounge singer. Variety deemed her performance in the film "satisfactory," but faulted the screenplay for being illogical. Following that film, Leigh ended her contract with MGM after eight years. In April 1954 Leigh signed a 4-picture contract with Universal, where her husband was based. She also signed a contract with Columbia to make one film a year for five years. Leigh appeared in Pete Kelly's Blues (1954) with Jack Webb (who also directed), and subsequently starred in her first feature under

450-462: A weighted average , assigned the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. In a 2002 review (for the DVD release of the film), Slant reviewer Ed Gonzalez gave the film 3.5 stars out of four, and stated that "Carpenter's use of 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen is beyond legendary and his compositions evoke a town that may as well be the last remaining one on

540-566: A Viking-themed feature based on Hal Foster 's comic of the same name . Also in 1954, Leigh had a supporting role in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy Living It Up (1954) for Paramount, followed by Universal's swashbuckler film The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), in which she appeared opposite Curtis, marking their second feature together. Leigh also starred opposite Robert Taylor in MGM's film noir Rogue Cop (1954), portraying

630-480: A blinding flash of light as the fog miraculously vanishes. Stevie, now alone again at the lighthouse, warns her listeners that the fog could come again and instructs any ships that can hear her to keep an eye out for it. After everyone leaves the church, Malone remains inside and wonders why he was spared given that there were 5 deaths. The fog then reappears along with the ghosts, and Blake decapitates Malone, making 6. The Fog ' s central themes are revenge and

720-408: A campfire on the beach. One story is about a clipper ship that crashed against the rocks nearby, causing all of its crew to drown after mistaking a campfire for a lighthouse while sailing through an unearthly fog. Machen finishes the story as midnight strikes and paranormal activity begins occurring around the town. Town priest, Father Malone, discovers his grandfather's diary. The journal reveals that

810-498: A century earlier, in 1880, the 6 founders of Antonio Bay (including Malone's grandfather) deliberately wrecked a clipper ship named the Elizabeth Dane , so that its wealthy, leprosy -afflicted owner Blake would not establish a leper colony nearby. The conspirators used the gold plundered from the ship to establish the town. Meanwhile, out at sea, a strange, glowing fog envelops a fishermen's trawler. The fog brings with it

900-461: A contract for her, despite her having no acting experience. Leigh dropped out of college that year, and was soon placed under the tutelage of drama coach Lillian Burns. Prior to beginning her film career, Leigh was a guest star on the radio dramatic anthology The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players . Her initial appearance on radio at age 19 was in the program's production "All Through the House,"

990-442: A decent climax." In his 1980 review, Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, commenting: "The movie's made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain. This isn't a great movie but it does show great promise from Carpenter." Similarly, Leonard Maltin rated the film 2 1 ⁄ 2 -stars-out-of-4 and called it a "well-directed but obvious ghost story." In the years following its release, The Fog has amassed

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1080-516: A friend of Barbeau's, was cast as Nick Castle. The Fog was Atkins' first appearance in a Carpenter film, and he also appeared in Carpenter's next film, Escape from New York (1981) as well as Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), which was produced and scored by Carpenter. Jamie Lee Curtis , who was the main star of Carpenter's 1978 hit Halloween , appeared as Elizabeth. Commenting on

1170-496: A high Bbm9 chord that crescendoes to an abrupt fermata cutoff. The second movement is the most recognizable piece of the score: directly after the first movement's fermata, a lone first violin launches directly into a series of discordant, screechy glissandos before being joined by the rest of the string section. This pattern is repeated twice, albeit the second set of glissandos is notated somewhat differently. The movements ends with another fermata. The cello and contrabass start

1260-416: A large gold cross in the wall cavity, made from the rest of the stolen gold from the Elizabeth Dane , just as the fog begins enveloping the church and the ghosts begin their attack. Malone, knowing that the ghosts have returned to take 6 lives instead of the 6 original conspirators, offers the gold and himself to spare the others. The ghost of Blake himself seizes the gold cross and he and his crew disappear in

1350-509: A play by Preston Sturges . The film received mild critical acclaim. Leigh then appeared in the baseball-themed fantasy farce Angels in the Outfield (1951), which was a significant commercial success. The same year, RKO borrowed Leigh to appear in the musical Two Tickets to Broadway (1951), which was a box-office success. She was one of many stars in the anthology film It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952) and appeared in

1440-537: A role opposite James Stewart in the Western The Naked Spur (1953). The latter, though a low-budget feature, was one of the top-grossing films of the year, and noted by several critics for its psychological components. Less well received was the comedy Confidentially Connie (1953), in which Leigh starred opposite Van Johnson as a pregnant housewife who helps trigger a price war at a local butcher shop. Paramount borrowed Leigh and Curtis for

1530-405: A romantic comedy with Peter Lawford , Just This Once (1952). Leigh had a significant commercial success with the swashbuckler-themed Scaramouche (1952), in which she starred as Aline de Gavrillac opposite Stewart Granger and Eleanor Parker . Next, she received top-billing in the critically acclaimed comedy Fearless Fagan (1952), about a clown drafted into the military, followed by

1620-693: A second home there for more than 30 years. In 2003, she received the Ted M. Larson Award at the Fargo Film Festival for his contribution to cinema. Leigh was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California , on May 14, 2004, where she had attended college. At the time, Leigh's health was compromised by vasculitis , and she delivered

1710-556: A series of mishaps. Also in 1960, Leigh was cast in her most iconic role, as the morally conflicted murder victim Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho , co-starring with John Gavin and Anthony Perkins , and released by Universal. Leigh was reportedly so traumatized by watching her character's shower murder scene that she went to great lengths to avoid showers for the rest of her life. Released in June 1960, Psycho

1800-544: A speech at the ceremony from a wheelchair. On October 13, 2006, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis unveiled a bronze plaque of their mother to honor her early life in Stockton. The memorial is located in the downtown Stockton plaza adjacent to the City Center Cinemas, since renamed "Janet Leigh Plaza". Leigh was honored posthumously by University of the Pacific with the naming of the "Janet Leigh Theatre" on

1890-495: A total of 152 weeks, and it ultimately grossed $ 21.3 million in the United States and Canada, with $ 11 million of that total being " rentals " (i.e. the share of the film's box office gross that goes to the film's distributors/studio). The Fog has been released on various home video formats since the early 1980s: Magnetic Video released it on betamax and VHS in the fall of 1980, Embassy Home Entertainment reissued

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1980-466: A university student, Leigh met Stanley Reames, a U.S. Navy sailor who was enrolled at a nearby V-12 Program . Leigh and Reames married on October 6, 1945, when she was eighteen; their marriage, however, was also short-lived, and they divorced less than three years later. On June 4, 1951, Leigh married actor Tony Curtis in a private ceremony in Greenwich, Connecticut . Their romance and marriage

2070-475: Is "more interested in conjuring up a sinister atmosphere than he is in exploring some of the social ramifications of such a story". The initial inspiration for The Fog came to Carpenter when he and his collaborator and then-girlfriend, Debra Hill , were promoting their film Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) in England; the two visited Stonehenge during the trip, where they witnessed an eerie fog rolling over

2160-416: Is approached by a walking-dead corpse in the morgue, as well as the finale in which Barbeau's character ascends to the roof of the lighthouse to escape the mariner ghosts. Carpenter and Debra Hill said the necessity of a re-shoot became especially clear to them after they realized that The Fog would have to compete with horror films that had higher gore content. Approximately one-third of the finished film

2250-469: Is the additional footage completed during reshoots. The reshoots increased the film's budget from $ 900,000 to $ 1.1 million. Carpenter's musical score for The Fog features prominent synthesizer and elements of drone music , and was largely composed in the key of A minor . As the film progresses, its score shifts to the key of B major and features a flatter pitch. The score has been released on compact disc and vinyl in several different editions since

2340-468: The Columbo episode Forgotten Lady . The episode utilizes footage of Leigh from the film Walking My Baby Back Home (1953). Her many guest appearances on television series include The Man from U.N.C.L.E. two-part episode, "The Concrete Overcoat Affair", in which she played a sadistic Thrush agent named Miss Dyketon, a highly provocative role for mainstream television at the time. The two-part episode

2430-591: The Murder, She Wrote episode "Doom with a View" (1987), as Barbara LeMay in an episode of The Twilight Zone ("Rendezvous in a dark place", 1989) and the Touched by an Angel episode "Charade" (1997). She guest-starred twice as different characters on both Fantasy Island and The Love Boat , as well as Tales of the Unexpected . Leigh continued to grant interviews and appear at red carpet events through

2520-740: The New York Daily News gave the film a middling two out of four-star review, praising the performances but writing that "Carpenter obviously is entranced by ghost stories, but he seems willing to sacrifice story for effect." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times similarly lauded the acting, and complimented the film as "an elegant and scary thriller of the supernatural that's far more impressive and satisfying than Carpenter's grisly and pointless (but profitable) Halloween ." The New York Times ' s Vincent Canby praised

2610-543: The 1960 U.S. presidential election and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election . She also served on the board of directors of the Motion Picture and Television Foundation, a medical-services provider for actors. Leigh died at her home in Beverly Hills on October 3, 2004, at age 77 after a protracted battle with vasculitis . Her death surprised many, as she had not disclosed her illness to

2700-651: The Biltmore Theatre on December 28, 1975. The play ran for seventeen performances, closing on January 10, 1976. The play received varied reviews, with some critics who attended preview performances disliking the show. In 1979, Leigh appeared in a supporting role in Boardwalk opposite Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg , and received critical praise, with Vincent Canby of The New York Times lauding it as her "best role in years". In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also authored four books. Her first,

2790-618: The College of the Pacific (now University of the Pacific ) in September 1943, where she majored in music and psychology . While in college, she joined the Alpha Theta Tau sorority, and also sang with the college's a cappella choir. In order to help support her family, she spent Christmas and summer vacations working at retail shops and dime stores , as well as working at the college's information desk during her studies. While

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2880-429: The Elizabeth Dane , carrying the vengeful ghosts of Blake and his crew, who kill the fishermen. The following morning, local radio DJ Stevie Wayne is given a piece of driftwood by her son Andy, who found it on the beach. It is inscribed with the word "DANE". Stevie carries it with her to the lighthouse where she broadcasts her radio show. As she is listening to music on a cassette, the driftwood begins seeping water. As

2970-641: The University of Southern California in early 1947. In February 1946, actress Norma Shearer was vacationing at Sugar Bowl , a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains where Leigh's parents were working at the time. In the resort lobby, Shearer noticed a photograph of Leigh taken by her father over the Christmas holiday, which he had printed and placed in a photo album available for guests to browse. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Shearer showed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) talent agent Lew Wasserman

3060-414: The "No. 1 glamour girl" of Hollywood, although known for her polite, generous and down-to-earth persona. Leigh appeared in a number of films in 1949, including the thriller, Act of Violence (1949), with Van Heflin and Robert Ryan , directed by Fred Zinnemann . Though a financial failure, it was well received by critics. She also had a significant hit with MGM's version of Little Women , based on

3150-591: The 1950s. It was ultimately a blockbuster , grossing over $ 13 million internationally. Leigh's next film, The Perfect Furlough , was released in early 1959, in which she again co-starred with Curtis, playing a psychiatrist lieutenant in Paris . Leigh and Curtis next co-starred in the Columbia Pictures farce Who Was That Lady? (released in early 1960), in which Leigh portrayed a wife who catches her professor husband (Curtis) cheating on her, triggering

3240-822: The 19th century near Goleta, California (this event was portrayed more directly in the 1975 Tom Laughlin film, The Master Gunfighter ). The premise also bears strong resemblances to Massimo Pupillo 's 1965 Terror-Creatures from the Grave as well as the John Greenleaf Whittier poem The Wreck of the Palatine which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1867, about the wreck of the ship Princess Augusta in 1738 , at Block Island , within Rhode Island . Carpenter named characters in

3330-700: The Chrysler Theatre and The Red Skelton Hour . She also starred in several made-for-TV films, most notably the off-length (135 minutes instead of the usual 100) The House on Greenapple Road , which premiered on ABC in January 1970 to high ratings. In 1972, Leigh starred in the science fiction film Night of the Lepus with Stuart Whitman , as well as the drama One Is a Lonely Number with Trish Van Devere . In 1975, she played an ex-Hollywood song and dance star opposite Peter Falk and John Payne in

3420-730: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre . The original production budget was approximately $ 900,000. The film was shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey , and Carpenter stated the appearance of the film was inspired by the Val Lewton -produced horror films I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and Isle of the Dead (1945), which he described as "very shadowy, all suggestion, and he has all sorts of melodrama going. I

3510-462: The Hollywood film industry as an actress, wife, mother and humanitarian. Dedicated Friday, June 25, 2010. The Fog The Fog is a 1980 American independent supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter , who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau , Jamie Lee Curtis , Tom Atkins , Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook . It tells

3600-574: The RKO-produced Holiday Affair (1949). That December, she started work on Josef von Sternberg 's adventure-drama film Jet Pilot , in which she starred as the female lead opposite John Wayne . Producer Howard Hughes ' constant re-editing would cause the film to be delayed almost eight years before being released. At MGM she appeared in Strictly Dishonorable (1951), a comedy with Ezio Pinza , based on

3690-510: The Stockton campus on June 25, 2010. The plaque at the theatre reads as follows: Pacific's Janet Leigh Theatre - Made possible by a generous gift from the Robert Brandt and Janet Leigh Brandt Estate. The Janet Leigh Theatre was created to bind the experiences and friendships that Janet Leigh valued while a student at Pacific. This memorial is a tribute to her life and career in the Stockton region as well as her magnificent contributions to

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3780-478: The age of 77 after a year-long battle with vasculitis . Jeanette Helen Morrison was born on July 6, 1927, in Merced, California , the only child of Helen Lita (née Westergaard) and Frederick Robert Morrison. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from Denmark, and her father had Scots-Irish and German ancestry. Shortly after Leigh's birth, the family relocated to Stockton , where she spent her early life. She

3870-501: The biographical feature Houdini (1953)–the couple's first film together–with the two appearing as Harry and Bess Houdini , respectively. The couple also appeared as guests on Martin and Lewis ' Colgate Comedy Hour before Leigh was loaned to Universal to appear in the musical Walking My Baby Back Home (1953). Leigh was cast as Robert Wagner 's love interest in the Fox-produced adventure film Prince Valiant (1954),

3960-827: The deal with Columbia: the title role in the musical comedy My Sister Eileen (1955), co-starring Jack Lemmon , Betty Garrett and Dick York , and based on a series of New Yorker stories about two sisters living in New York City. In early 1955, Leigh and Curtis formed their own independent film production company, Curtleigh Productions . Columbia cast Leigh in Safari (1956) opposite Victor Mature , shot in Kenya for Warwick Pictures . The same year, Leigh and Curtis gave birth to their first child, daughter Kelly . She subsequently made her television debut in an episode of Schlitz Playhouse , "Carriage from Britain". In 1957,

4050-452: The drama If Winter Comes (1947), playing a young pregnant woman in an English village. By early 1948, Leigh was occupied with the shooting of the Lassie film Hills of Home (1948), her third feature and the first in which she received star billing. She played the young wife of composer Richard Rodgers in MGM's all-star musical, Words and Music (1948). In late 1948, she was hailed

4140-515: The early 2000s. Her final film credit was in the teen film Bad Girls from Valley High (2005), opposite Christopher Lloyd . While in high school, Leigh married eighteen-year-old John Kenneth Carlisle in Reno, Nevada , on August 1, 1942. The marriage was annulled five months later on December 28, 1942. After a tenure at Stockton College (now San Joaquin Delta College ), Leigh enrolled at

4230-520: The face of the earth." In 2018, The Guardian called it "one of the director's most atmospheric, the shots of a wave-lashed cove and fog-choked headland making the town's impending reckoning almost poetic." In the early 2010s, Time Out conducted a poll of over 100 authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films. The Fog placed at number 77 on their top 100 list. Zombiemania: 80 Movies to Die For author Arnold T. Blumberg wrote that

4320-502: The film Jet Pilot , which Leigh had filmed in 1949, was finally released. In 1958, Leigh starred as Susan Vargas in the Orson Welles film noir classic Touch of Evil (1958), done at Universal with Charlton Heston , a film with numerous similarities to Alfred Hitchcock 's later film Psycho , which was produced two years later; in it, she plays a newlywed tormented in a Mexican border town. Leigh would later describe shooting

4410-637: The film again on VHS in 1985. MGM Home Entertainment released the film on VHS in 2000 before issuing a special edition DVD in August 2002. Another special edition DVD was released in Europe in 2004. Scream Factory released the film on Blu-ray in July 2013, before reissuing it on 4K UHD on September 13, 2022, in both standard and limited steelbook editions. Upon its original release, The Fog received mixed responses from film critics. Ernest Leogrande of

4500-412: The film as a "great experience," but added: "Universal just couldn't understand it, so they recut it. Gone was the undisciplined but brilliant film Orson had made." Next, Leigh co-starred in her fourth film with Curtis, The Vikings (1958), produced by and co-starring Kirk Douglas , and released in June 1958. Distributed by United Artists , the film had one of the most expensive marketing campaigns of

4590-503: The film grossed $ 21.3 million domestically. The Fog contains themes of revenge and repressed corrupt historical events resurfacing in contemporary small-town America. In the years since its original release, it has established a cult following . A remake was released in 2005. On the eve of the centennial of the small coastal town Antonio Bay in Northern California , old Mr. Machen tells ghost stories to children by

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4680-533: The film has been noted as historically relevant by film scholars as it violated narrative conventions of the time, while her murder scene itself is considered among both critics and film scholars to be one of the most iconic scenes in film history. Leigh and Curtis both had cameos in Columbia's all-star Pepe (1960), marking their last film together. In 1962, while Leigh was filming the thriller The Manchurian Candidate , Curtis filed for divorce. The divorce

4770-465: The film was "a very effective small scale chiller" and "an attempt to capture the essence of a typical spooky American folktale while simultaneously paying homage to the EC Comics of the 1950s and the then very recent Italian zombie influx." A novelization of the movie, written by Dennis Etchison , was published by Bantam Books in January 1980. The novel clarifies the implication in the film that

4860-429: The film was set for release during Christmas 1979, but AVCO Embassy president Bob Rehme opted to wait until February 1980, when there would be less major box office competition from other films and more theater screens available. The film was given a staggered release in various cities by AVCO Embassy Pictures beginning February 1, 1980, before expanding to further locations later that month. Its theatrical run lasted

4950-436: The film's release. In addition to the final $ 1.1 million production budget, AVCO Embassy spent over $ 3 million solely on advertising which included TV spots, radio spots, print ads and even the placement of fog machines (costing £350 each) in the lobbies of selected theaters where the film was showing. A further undisclosed amount was spent on 600 prints of the film, 540 of which were distributed to American cinemas. Originally,

5040-486: The film's visual elements, but felt it ultimately paled in comparison to Carpenter's Halloween , describing it as "neither a rewarding ghost story nor...  science-fiction, though it borrows freely from both genres... Unlike Halloween , which was a model of straight-forward terror and carefully controlled suspense, The Fog is constructed of random diversions. There are too many story lines, which necessitate so much cross-cutting that no one sequence can ever build to

5130-485: The film, Mrs. Kobritz, is named after Richard Kobritz, who produced Carpenter's 1978 television film Someone's Watching Me! . Other references that are interwoven into the film include the name of the John Houseman character "Mr. Machen" (a reference to Welsh horror fantasist Arthur Machen ); a radio report that mentions Arkham Reef ; and the town's coroner Dr. Phibes was named after the titular character of

5220-436: The fishermen. Later, while Elizabeth is in the autopsy room alone, the fisherman's corpse briefly comes to life and accosts her before collapsing. Nick and coroner Dr. Phibes see the now-lifeless corpse has carved the number 3 on the floor with a scalpel. That evening, as the town begins its celebrations, local weatherman Dan is killed by the ghosts at the weather station. The fog has returned and starts moving inland, disrupting

5310-440: The horrible truth and brings it to the attention of Mayor Kathy Williams, she shrugs it off and dismisses any impact or introspection it might cast over the centenary. It was so long ago, she reasons, and what is there to do about it? And she has a point; there’s no changing the past, and at a certain distance, there’s no rectifying it." Writer Peter Hutchings notes that, while the film contains these implicit themes, that Carpenter

5400-442: The horror film Night of the Lepus (1972) and the thriller film Boardwalk (1979). She later starred with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis , in the horror films The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). Leigh amassed several screen and stage credits in a career spanning five decades. In addition to her work as an actress, she wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. She died at

5490-455: The horror films starring Vincent Price from the early 1970s. The Fog was part of a two-picture deal with AVCO Embassy Pictures, along with Escape from New York (1981). Cast as the female lead was Adrienne Barbeau , Carpenter's wife, who had appeared in Carpenter's TV movie Someone's Watching Me! in 1978. This was her first feature film. Barbeau also appeared in Carpenter's next film, Escape from New York (1981). Tom Atkins ,

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5580-535: The landscape from a distance. Carpenter stated that he drew additional inspiration for the story from the British film The Trollenberg Terror (1958), which dealt with monsters hiding in the clouds. In the DVD audio commentary for the film, Carpenter noted that the story of the deliberate wreckage of a ship and its subsequent plundering was based on an actual event (the wrecking of the Frolic ) that took place in

5670-565: The memoir There Really Was a Hollywood (1984), became a New York Times bestseller. In 1995, Leigh published the non-fiction book Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller . In 1996, she published her first novel, House of Destiny , which explored the lives of two friends who forged an empire that would change the course of Hollywood's history. The book's success spawned a follow-up novel, The Dream Factory (2002), which

5760-719: The novel by Louisa May Alcott , in which she portrayed Meg March, alongside June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor . The film was generally well received by critics. Also in 1949, Leigh appeared as a nun in the anti-communist drama The Red Danube , which earned her critical acclaim, followed by a role as Glenn Ford 's love interest in The Doctor and the Girl . Other credits from 1949 include as June Forsyte in That Forsyte Woman (1949) opposite Greer Garson and Errol Flynn , and as Robert Mitchum 's leading co-star in

5850-427: The photograph of the then-eighteen-year-old Leigh (Shearer's late husband Irving Thalberg had been head of production at MGM). She would later recall that "that smile made it the most fascinating face I had seen in years. I felt I had to show that face to somebody at the studio." Through her association with MGM, Shearer was able to facilitate screen tests for Leigh with Selena Royle , after which Wasserman negotiated

5940-592: The private detective story Harper (1966), in which she played Paul Newman 's estranged wife opposite Lauren Bacall . She next portrayed a psychiatrist opposite Jerry Lewis in the comedy Three on a Couch , followed by a lead role in An American Dream , based on the Norman Mailer novel of the same name ; the latter film received critical backlash. Leigh's initial television appearances were on anthology programs such as Bob Hope Presents

6030-425: The prologue with Mr. Machen ( John Houseman ) telling ghost stories to fascinated children by a campfire (Houseman played a similar role in the opening of the 1981 film Ghost Story ), which was filmed on a soundstage. Carpenter added several other new scenes and re-shot others in order to make the film more comprehensible, more frightening and gorier. Among the additions were the sequence in which Curtis's character

6120-589: The public. She was survived by her daughters Kelly and Jamie and her husband of 42 years, Robert Brandt. Leigh was cremated and her ashes were entombed at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in the Westwood Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the 2012 film Hitchcock , Leigh is played by Scarlett Johansson . She has a ski trail named after her, Leigh Lane, at Sun Valley Resort's Bald Mountain skiing area in Sun Valley, Idaho . Leigh kept

6210-403: The resurfacing of "repressed past events" in small-town America, as it focuses on the supernatural vengeance inflicted on the residents of a community that has prospered from looted salvage. William Fischer of Collider describes the film as one preoccupied with "an all-American town getting ready to celebrate its founding, a founding marred by a dark crime. When Father Patrick Malone discovers

6300-443: The role and on appearing in another of Carpenter's films, she said: "That's what I love about John. He's letting me explore different aspects of myself. I'm spoiled rotten now. My next director is going to be almost a letdown." In a retrospective interview, Curtis stated that her part was written into the film by Carpenter, who felt sympathy for her after the success of Halloween had failed to lead to her obtaining other roles. This

6390-519: The score is made up of multiple runs, trills, and short, staccato stabs played agitato. While there is no direct melody, the fast-paced runs constantly switch around between the keys of F, F#, C#, and D, with a few sections played in G. A notable feature that Herrmann implemented is the use of alternating eighth-note semitones to create a sense of approaching and imminent danger. John Williams made this technique famous 15 years later in his score for Steven Spielberg 's Jaws (1975). The movement ends with

6480-477: The screenplay after people with whom he had collaborated on previous projects. Among them are Dan O'Bannon , a screenwriter who worked with Carpenter on Dark Star (1974); Nick Castle , who portrayed Michael Myers in Halloween ; Tommy Wallace , an editor, sound designer and art designer who worked on Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13 , as well as several other subsequent projects. The babysitter in

6570-418: The six who must die were not random but in fact descendants of the six original conspirators. In 2005, the film was remade under the direction of Rupert Wainwright with a screenplay by Cooper Layne and starring Tom Welling and Maggie Grace . Though based on Carpenter and Hill's original screenplay, the remake was made more in the vein of a "teen horror film" and given a PG-13 rating (the original film

6660-432: The story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in Northern California . Filmed in the spring of 1979, The Fog was scheduled to be released at Christmas that year by AVCO Embassy Pictures , but its release date was delayed to February 1, 1980. The film divided critics upon release, receiving praise for its visuals and acting, and criticism for its structure and screenplay. Despite mixed reviews,

6750-441: The third movement with long, low, drawn out dotted half-notes that are answered with minute, staccato stabs from the rest of the string section. The half-notes alternate between E and F 3 three times before going down to C. Janet Leigh Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh , was an American actress. Raised in Stockton, California , by working-class parents, Leigh

6840-422: The town's telephone and power lines. Using a backup generator , Stevie begs her listeners to go to her house and save her son. The ghosts kill her son's babysitter but Nick and Elizabeth rescue Andy. Stevie advises her listeners to head to the town's church, but then finds herself trapped and under siege by the ghosts when the fog envelops her lighthouse. Seeking refuge inside the church, a group of townsfolk finds

6930-409: The water touches her cassette player, a man's voice is inexplicably heard on the tape, vowing revenge, and the words "6 must die" appear on the wood before it bursts into flames. Stevie extinguishes the fire and sees that the wood once again reads "DANE", and the tape is once again playing normally. Town resident Nick and hitchhiker Elizabeth find the lost fishing trawler adrift and the corpse of one of

7020-632: Was a frequent topic in gossip columns and film tabloids. From 1951 to 1954, Leigh and Curtis appeared in numerous home movies directed by their friend Jerry Lewis . Leigh credited the experimental and informal nature of these films for allowing her to stretch her acting ability and attempt new roles. On June 17, 1956, Leigh gave birth to her first daughter, Kelly Lee Curtis . On November 22, 1958, Leigh gave birth to her second daughter with Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis . Curtis and Leigh divorced in 1962. She married stockbroker Robert Brandt later that year. A lifelong Democrat , Leigh supported John F. Kennedy in

7110-578: Was a major critical and commercial success. For her performance, Leigh received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Leigh's role in Psycho became career-defining and she later commented: "I've been in a great many films, but I suppose if an actor can be remembered for one role then they're very fortunate. And in that sense I'm fortunate." Her character's death early in

7200-420: Was a real fan of that sort of thing." Although a lower-budget independent film, Carpenter chose to shoot in the anamorphic 2.35:1 format to elevate its visual appearance. After viewing a rough cut of the film, Carpenter was dissatisfied with the results. Recalling the experience, Carpenter commented: "It was terrible. I had a movie that didn't work, and I knew it in my heart". Carpenter subsequently added

7290-503: Was also in the comedy Wives and Lovers (1963) for director Hal Wallis at Paramount. Leigh took a three-year break from her acting career, turning down several roles, including the role of Simone Clouseau in The Pink Panther , because she did not want to go on location and be separated from her young daughters. She returned to film in 1966, appearing in multiple films: first, the western Kid Rodelo (1966), followed by

7380-729: Was brought up in poverty, as her father struggled to support the family with his factory employment, and he took various additional jobs after the Great Depression . Leigh was raised Presbyterian and sang in the local church choir throughout her childhood. In 1941, when her paternal grandfather became terminally ill, the family relocated to Merced, where they moved into her grandparents' home. She attended Weber Grammar School in Stockton, and later Stockton High School . Leigh excelled in academics and graduated from high school at age sixteen. Though Leigh initially left college to pursue her film career, she re-enrolled in night classes at

7470-474: Was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer , who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . With MGM, she appeared in films such as the dramas The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947), the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952), and the Western drama The Naked Spur (1953). Leigh

7560-520: Was established as one of the earliest scream queens and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that same year. After marrying Robert Brandt in 1962, Leigh starred in the political thriller film The Manchurian Candidate (1962), the musical film Bye Bye Birdie (1963), and the thriller film Harper (1966) before scaling back her career. She made her Broadway debut in a production of Murder Among Friends (1975), and appeared in

7650-537: Was finalized in Ciudad Juárez , Mexico, on September 14, 1962; the following day, Leigh married stockbroker Robert Brandt (1927–2009) in a private ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada . Leigh would later comment that their divorce was the result of "outside problems", which included the death of Curtis's father. Next, Leigh appeared in the musical comedy Bye Bye Birdie (1963), based on the hit Broadway show. She

7740-441: Was first changed to "Jeanette Reames", then to "Janet Leigh" and finally back to her birth name "Jeanette Morrison", as the studio felt "Janet Leigh" might cause confusion with actress Vivien Leigh . However, Johnson did not like the name and it was ultimately changed back to "Janet Leigh" (pronounced "Lee"). Immediately after the release of The Romance of Rosy Ridge , Leigh was cast opposite Walter Pidgeon and Deborah Kerr in

7830-518: Was married to actor Tony Curtis from 1951 to 1962. After leaving MGM in 1954, she starred in films such as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles ' Touch of Evil (1958). She then achieved her biggest success playing Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock 's horror film Psycho (1960), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Her most enduring role, Leigh

7920-524: Was released in Europe as a feature film entitled The Spy in the Green Hat (1967). She also appeared in the title role in The Virginian episode "Jenny" (1970). In 1973, she appeared in the episode "Beginner's Luck" of the romantic anthology series Love Story . Leigh made her stage debut opposite Jack Cassidy in the original Broadway production of Murder Among Friends , which opened at

8010-570: Was set in Hollywood during the height of the studio system. Leigh subsequently appeared opposite her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis , in John Carpenter 's supernatural horror film The Fog (1980), in which a phantom schooner unleashes ghosts on a small coastal community. Leigh would appear opposite her daughter once again in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), playing the secretary of Laurie Strode . On television, Leigh acted in

8100-651: Was the first collaboration between Carpenter and character actor George Buck Flower , who would go on to appear in four more films directed by Carpenter: Escape from New York (1981), Starman (1984), They Live (1988) and Village of the Damned (1995). Filming took place from April to May 1979 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California (interior scenes) and on location at several other cities in California, including Point Reyes ; Bolinas ; Inverness ; and

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