Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh was only eighteen years old when Norma Shearer discovered her. Once she had secured a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she started to appear in films, debuting in The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Since then, she has appeared in other films such as Naked Spur, Scaramouche, Act of Violence, Angels in the Outfield, Living It Up, and Little Women. But before she started acting, she first attended the College of the Pacific, where she hoped to obtain a degree in music and psychology.

To add to her already successful career, the singer-actress also wrote books and novels under her name. Her first book was released in 1984, this was her memoir There Really Was a Hollywood, which became a New York Times bestseller. Her second was released in 1995, and it was a non-fiction book she titled Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. After which, she published her first-ever fiction novel House of Destiny. The success of her first novel spawned a sequel, The Dream Factory, published and released in 2002.