Janet Leigh Collection, 1947 - 2004.

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Janet Leigh Collection, 1947 - 2004.

The majority of the collection is material that decorated Leigh's home. Following her death in 2004, her heirs donated her material to the University of the Pacific. Some of the items from the donation were transferred to the university's movie theater (renamed the Janet Leigh Theater in 2009). Her Golden Globe award and items from the collection are on exhibit in the Holt-Atherton reading room.

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Leigh, Janet

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Jeanette Helen Morrison was born in Merced, California on July 6, 1927 and died Janet Leigh Brandt in Los Angeles on October 3, 2004. She started at the College of the Pacific in September of 1943 and studied music and psychology (music therapy), joined Alpha Theta Tau, and was involved in student government. She married a fellow student, Stanley Reames, in the fall of 1945. The Reameses left Pacific in the spring semester of 1946 and moved to Los Angeles - the same year that actress Norma Shear...

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