Jamie Lee Curtis remembers mom Janet Leigh on death anniversary: ‘Long time gone this day’

0Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis circa 1980sCredit: Sonia Moskowitz/IMAGES/GettyKey PointsJamie Lee Curtis posted a tribute to her mother Janet Leigh, who died on Oct. 3, 2004.

Leigh was known for her reign as a film star in the 1950s and ’60s, including an Oscar-nominated turn in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Curtis frequently honors her late mom on significant anniversaries and holidays.

Jamie Lee Curtis is paying homage to her mother, the legendary movie star and fellow scream queen Janet Leigh.

In a post on Saturday, Curtis marked the 22nd anniversary of Leigh’s death with a rare candid of the Psycho actress playing in a bubble bath, “Long time gone this day. Love and misses to my mother.”

Leigh died on Oct. 3, 2004, of vasculitis, which is an inflammation of the blood vessels. Curtis was born to Leigh and her father, fellow movie star Tony Curtis, on Nov. 22, 1958, the second child of the Hollywood “it” couple, who also had Kelly Curtis on June 17, 1956.

Just a few months ago, Kelly died at age 69, a few weeks shy of her 70th birthday, on May 30, of natural causes.

“A warm aloha to my older sister, Kelly Lee Curtis,” Jamie Lee wrote at the time. “She passed away this morning. In her home. In nature. At peace.”

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Curtis continued in part, “She was my first friend and lifelong confidant. She was jaw droppingly beautiful, and a talented actress. She played a mean game of hearts, collected turtles, loved her family, nature, music, thrifting, travel, Facebook, and Pokémon Go.”

Curtis has often honored her mother Leigh on Instagram, frequently posting pictures of the Manchurian Candidate star on significant holidays and anniversaries. On July 6, on what would have been Leigh’s 99th birthday, Curtis shared a video of a memorial card made for the actress’ funeral, which showed “her life as a daughter, and as an actress, and as a wife, and as a mother, and then as a grandmother, as a friend, and as a member of [the charity] SHARE, and as an author, and she got her doctorate, and she was a great woman.”

Curtis noted that Leigh would’ve been a “GREAT GREAT-GRANDMOTHER” in the caption.

On May 10, Mother’s Day, she posted a black-and-white snap with her mother laughing, noting “love and misses” to the late star.

A year ago on Oct. 3, Curtis shared the photograph responsible for her family’s powerhouse legacy, a simple portrait of Leigh — then Jeanette Helen Morrison — taken on a ski trip at a lodge where her parents were working at the time. The ’30s Hollywood legend Norma Shearer asked for a copy when she visited the resort in 1946, and it landed in the hands of Lew Wasserman at MCA.

From there, Leigh ultimately scored a contract at MGM, where she would quickly rise to stardom through a series of hits including The Romance of Rosy Ridge and Little Women (in which she played Meg).

Leigh would find her greatest success when she branched off as an independent artist in the ’50s, including in several movies costarring her then-husband Tony Curtis, such as Houdini, The Vikings, and Who Was That Lady? She was the female lead in Orson Welles’ seminal Touch of Evil, Oscar-nominated for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, lauded as Frank Sinatra’s mysterious love interest in John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate, and a spirited musical songstress opposite Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie.

In addition to sharing DNA, Curtis and Leigh also shared the screen on several occasions, including in the 1980 John Carpenter chiller The Fog, 1998’s Halloween H20, and a 1978 episode of The Love Boat. After Leigh and Tony Curtis divorced in 1962, she married stockbroker Robert Brandt, with whom she remained for the rest of her life.

On Father’s Day this year, Jamie Lee Curtis paid tribute to both her biological father and her stepfather, writing of Brandt, “The man who raised me and taught me and brought me up to respect authority, manage money, keep trying, learn athletics, love and appreciate nature, even on frigid winter mornings, who lived the Semper Fi ethos in all his affairs, Robert Jay Brandt was my father and he took us to the mountains we now call home and he is missed today along with my sister and mom.”

Curtis penned the preface to her mother’s memoir There Really Was a Hollywood in 1984, noting how one crew member she worked with once told her, “Your mother is one of the few people in Hollywood that no one has anything bad to say about.”

“She is one of the great ladies on the screen and off the screen,” Curtis wrote. “She has my true admiration and undying respect. I am honored to be her daughter and friend.”

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