90 million.ġ2:45 PM THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962). Cast: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone. A playboy hands control of his dwindling fortune to a pretty girl. Cast: Tony Martin, Janet Leigh, Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Bracken, Ann Miller, Barbara Lawrence, Charles Dale and Joe Smith.

A small-town girl finds love on the road to Broadway stardom. 95 million.ĩ:00 AM TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY (1951). Cast: Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell. An opera star risks disaster when he marries a lovesick fan. Rick Santorum: The Politics of Boredomħ:15 AM STRICTLY DISHONORABLE (1951). Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey, Gordon Gebert, Esther Dale, Henry O’Neill, Harry Morgan. A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well. Cast: Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Janet Leigh, Robert Young. An unhappily married woman falls in love with her niece’s fiance. Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website:ģ:30 AM THAT FORSYTE WOMAN (1949). Note: The Manchurian Candidate (2004) remake was directed by Jonathan Demme, and starred Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, and Meryl Streep. If you can’t, there’s always Angela Lansbury delivering one of the greatest performances of the ’60s – while also giving a more complex meaning to the concept of Mother Love.

If you’re able to suspend disbelief for a couple of hours, you may enjoy The Manchurian Candidate. In what amounts to a supporting role, Janet Leigh plays a woman who falls for another disturbed war veteran, Frank Sinatra. In her honor, Turner Classic Movies is showing eight Janet Leigh movies (see TCM schedule below), including one of her landmark motion pictures: John Frankenheimer’s political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (1962).Ĭonsidered one of the greatest political movies ever made in Hollywood, The Manchurian Candidate stars Laurence Harvey as a Korean War veteran who is a robot-like pawn to an enemy government. Janet Leigh would have turned 85 on Friday, July 6.

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