How old was Janet Leigh in the movie The Manchurian Candidate?
Janet Leigh was 34 in The Manchurian Candidate when she played the character 'Eugenie Rose Chaney'.
That was over 62 years ago in 1962.
In 2004 she died aged 77, starring in 88 films in her career, 46 of those after The Manchurian Candidate was first released. If she were alive today she would be 96.
How old do you think she looks in the movie?
In The Manchurian Candidate, I think Janet Leigh looks:
Did you know?
- Director John Frankenheimer has worked with Janet Leigh just once in her career.
- Janet Leigh's first movie was as 'Lissy Anne MacBean' in The Romance of Rosy Ridge, released in 1947 when she was 19
- The Manchurian Candidate scores 7.63 out of 10 on TMDB.
