Two of the most famous individual shots in the shower sequence—Norman Bates’s knife against Marion Crane’s stomach and Marion’s hand grabbing the shower curtain—were of Renfro, not Leigh.

If not the most famous scene in the history of the cinema, the shower sequence in “Psycho,” Alfred Hitchcock’s black-and-white masterwork of 1960, is certainly the most imitated and parodied.

There’s a critical scene in "Gone Girl" that takes place in a shower, which only emphasizes just how important showers can be as crucibles for drama, comedy and plain voyeurism.

Not a lot of movie scenes are so famous that entire documentaries are made about them, but not a lot of scenes are like the shower sequence in “Psycho.” One of the most iconic moments in all ...

IFC Midnight has acquired domestic rights to director Alexandre O. Philippe’s “78/52,” the Sundance documentary that deconstructs the infamous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock‘s ...

Exploring the real-life fate of Marli Renfro, Janet Leigh's body double in the famous shower scene in 'Psycho.' 'The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower,' by Robert Graysmith - Los Angeles Times ...