LIFE rode along with Leigh as her list of film credits grew, usually at the rate of two to three per year. “She limbers up for sexy roles,” declared a headline with photos that showcased Leigh undergoing training as a dancer for her role in the musical Two Tickets to Broadway. The report on her marriage noted, “The wedding went off smoothly enough although the best man, comedian Jerry Lewis, arrived an hour late.” A second story talked about how the young actress was transitioning to a more adult phase of her career. Leigh’s public profile took a big leap forward when she married actor Tony Curtis, which earned her a spot on the cover of LIFE in its Jissue.
Two years later she photographed for LIFE for the first time, around when she was playing Meg in the 1949 adaptation of the movie Little Women. While she was not a singular icon in the manner of Marilyn, Leigh starred some unforgettable movies, and she was a fixture in the pages of LIFE.īorn in 1927, Leigh broke into acting at age 18, and made her film debut with a lead role in a 1947 drama about life after the civil war called The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Leigh was a movie star, she was a beautiful blonde, and she had a celebrity husband. Janet Leigh shares more than a few attributes with Marilyn Monroe, the actress whose fame is most closely associated with the heyday of LIFE magazine.
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