- Janet broke her right arm before filming Touch Of Evil (1958), and director Orson Welles disguised this in his camera angles.
- Janet's measurements:
36-21-36 (1953)
35 1/2-23-36 (1960s)
(Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Janet was 5 feet 5 1/2 inches tall.
- Janet toured the country in late 2003 promoting the American Film Preservation Festival, which featured a film she starred in, Touch Of Evil (1958).
- Janet starred with her real-life daughter Jamie Lee Curtis in the sequel Halloween: H20 (1998); Jamie herself had starred in the original Halloween (1978).
- Janet Leigh: I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am.