Books:

Biographical:

• There really was a Hollywood by Janet Leigh (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984).

Other:

• Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller by Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens (New York: Harmony Books, 1995).

Referenced in:

• "A" Western Filmmakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Composers, Actors and Actresses by Henryk Hoffmann (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2000).
• Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television (Detroit, MI : Gale Research Co., 1998).
• The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era by James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1973).
• Tony Curtis : the man and his movies by Allan Hunter (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, c1985).

The Books/ Plays of her Films:

• If winter comes by A.S.M. Hutchinson (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921).
• Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Louisa May Alcott (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868).
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (1922).
       (inspiration for THAT FORSYTE WOMAN).
• Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshall (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947).
       (inspiration for THE RED DANUBE).
• "Strictly dishonorable" by Preston Sturges (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c1931).
• Scaramouche: a romance of the French revolution by Rafael Sabatini (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921).
• Houdini: his life-story by Harold Kellock from the recollections and documents of Beatrice Houdini (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, c1928).
• Rogue cop by William P. McGivern (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1954).
• Men of iron by Howard Pyle (New York: Harper & brothers, 1892).
       (inspiration for THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH).
• "Hazel Flagg" book by Ben Hecht; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Hilliard (New York: Tams-Witmark, 1950).
       (inspiration for LIVING IT UP).
• My sister Eileen by Ruth McKenney (New York: Harcourt, Brace and company, 1938).
• "My sister Eileen, a comedy" by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, based on the stories by Ruth McKenney (New York: Random House, 1941).
• Badge of evil by Whit Masterson (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956).
       (inspiration for TOUCH OF EVIL).
• The Viking by Edison Marshall (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951).
       (inspiration for THE VIKINGS).
• Psycho by Robert Bloch (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959).
• "Broadway Zauber" by Leslie Bush-Fekete.
       (inspiration for PEPE.)
• The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959).
• "Bye bye Birdie" book by Michael Stewart; music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Lee Adams (1960).
• "The first wife" by Jay Allen Presson.
       (inspiration for WIVES AND LOVERS).
• Kid Rodelo by Louis L'Amour.
• The moving target by Ross Macdonald (1949).
       (inspiration for HARPER).
• An American dream by Norman Mailer (New York: Dial Press, 1965).
• The year of the angry rabbit by Russell Braddon (New York: W.W. Norton, 1965).
       (inspiration for NIGHT OF THE LEPUS).

Articles:

Biographical:

• "Janet Leigh."  Baseline Celebrity Biographies (1999).
• Curtis, Jamie Lee.  "My Mom: 'I think of you and Dad as the Demi and Bruce of Your Generation'." The Observer (20 April 1997): 9.
• Leigh, Janet.  "The real facts about Tony and me."  Silver Screen 24.2 (December 1953): 29.
• Leigh, Janet.  "And so we were married."  Silver Screen 21.12 (October 1951): 26.

Features:

• Nogueira, R.  "Psycho, Rose and a touch of Orson."  Sight and Sound 39.2 (Spring 1970): 66.
• Leigh, Janet.  "Every wife must be an actress."  Silver Screen 23.9 (July 1953): 34.
• Maddox, B.  "Untold tales about Janet and Tony."  Silver Screen 23.5 (March 1953): 40.
• Pidgeon, W.  "Naive is the word."  Silver Screen 18.7 (May 1948): 36.

Citations:

• New York Times (1 May 1995).
• People (7 August 1995): 85+.
• Photoplay 81.1 (January 1972): 12.
• Silver Screen 24.9 (July 1954): 35.
• Silver Screen 23.1 (November 1952): 34.
• Silver Screen 22.5 (March 1952): 36.
• Silver Screen 20.2 (December 1949): 42.
• Ladies Home Journal n.96 (September 1949): 65.

Other:

• "Intimate Portrait: Janet Leigh" (Lifetime Entertainment).
• "Janet Leigh -- Hollywood interview, with Tom Cooper" (Tom Cooper Productions, 1985).

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