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Aug 28, 2019 · The movie followed Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a secretary who encountered Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) after staying at his family's motel. Marion was on the run to meet her boyfriend after stealing a large sum of money.
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Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam.
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Renfro, then 21, was a magazine model when photographer Mario Casilli told her Hitchcock's latest movie was seeking a body double. When she met with the filmmaker and Leigh, she disrobed to see if their bodies were a match. On the set the first day — topless, with just her crotch covered by a rubber patch — "I thought, 'Oh, my God, they're expectin...
"Janet Leigh could've been wearing a red-sequined ball gown for her part in the shower scene," Renfro says. Leigh donned a cream-colored one-piece bathing suit while filming, and "the camera goes to maybe 2 inches below her breast bone and that's it. If you don't see her face, that's me: the back of my head, my feet, arms, belly button."
The illusion of Norman fatally knifing Marion was created by two off-camera crewmen splattering Renfro with chocolate. "There was one (guy) who was shaking so bad, I thought, 'This is the closest he's ever been to a female without having sex,' " she says.
Renfro's ring finger is slightly darker than normal, the result of a childhood accident in which the tip was cut off by a lawn mower and sewn back on. She remembers Hitchcock wanting a close-up of her hand: "I told him what happened, and he (joked), 'It didn't happen that way. You were picking your nose, sneezed and blew up your finger.' "
Renfro signed on for a two- or three-day shoot, but wound up spending a week filming the shower scene because of the many camera angles and the precise blocking required. "There was one time when I'm about to put my hand up to grab the shower curtain, and (Hitchcock) attaches a measuring tape to the lens of the camera, comes over and puts the point...
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Psycho: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh. A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
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- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1960-09-08
The classic horror film found its roots in Robert Bloch’s eponymous novel of 1959, inspired by the sinister real-life exploits of a killer named Ed Gein. On the silver screen, Hitchcock...
After secretary Marion Crane (played by Janet Leigh) impulsively absconds from her job with $40,000, she checks into the eerie Bates Motel, which is run by shy, awkward Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his domineering elderly mother. While taking a shower, Crane is fatally stabbed by Norman’s mother, and Norman disposes of the body.
Psycho follows the story of Marion Crane, played by Janet Leigh, who steals money from her employer and goes on the run. She ends up at the Bates Motel, owned by the mysterious Norman Bates, played by Anthony Perkins. As the plot unfolds, dark secrets are revealed, leading to a shocking and unforgettable climax.
