The best Janet Leigh’s romance movies

Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

06/07/1927- 03/10/2004
Today we present the best Janet Leigh’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Janet Leigh’s movies.
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Little Women

Little Women
7.2/10
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair
7.1/10
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.

Scaramouche

Scaramouche
7.5/10
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Houdini

Houdini
6.8/10
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.

The Black Shield of Falworth

The Black Shield of Falworth
6.4/10
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth castle. There, Myles falls in love with the Macworth's daughter Anne, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.

Who Was That Lady?

Who Was That Lady?
6.6/10
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.

The Perfect Furlough

The Perfect Furlough
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/11/1958
  • Character: Lt. Vicki Loren
A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany him as chaperone to keep him out of trouble.

That Forsyte Woman

That Forsyte Woman
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/11/1949
  • Character: June Forsyte
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.

Three on a Couch

Three on a Couch
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/03/1966
  • Character: Dr Elizabeth Acord
An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge their trust and hopefully cure them so that his fiancee can go with him.

The Red Danube

The Red Danube
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 14/10/1949
  • Character: Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

Two Tickets to Broadway

Two Tickets to Broadway
5.5/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 20/11/1951
  • Character: Nancy Peterson
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
7/10
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

The Doctor and the Girl

The Doctor and the Girl
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1949
  • Character: Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.

Strictly Dishonorable

Strictly Dishonorable
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/07/1951
  • Character: Isabelle Perry
A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.

Wives and Lovers

Wives and Lovers
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/08/1963
  • Character: Bertie Austin
Husband and wife Bill (Van Johnson) and Bertie Austin (Janet Leigh) and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play. A new house in Connecticut is the first way to celebrate. But during the long hours Bill is away working on the play, Bertie befriends hard-drinking neighbor Fran Cabrell and her boyfriend Wylie, who plant seeds of suspicion in Bertie's mind that Bill and his beautiful agent might be more than just business partners. Bertie jealously retaliates by flirting with Gar Aldrich, an actor who will be in her husband's play. Bill goes to Connecticut for a heart-to-heart talk, finds Gar there and punches him.

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