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Inside Psycho

Wondery

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Vera Miles, Norman Bates, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Documentary, Film History

4.5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s the inside story of the legendary shower scene, from the nudist on set, to Janet Leigh’s unending efforts to maintain some decency, to the answer to the longstanding question: Do you actually see the knife disappear into a body or not?

We review the sounds of stabbing, the practical jokes that had everyone in stitches (except Janet Leigh), the novel introduction of a toilet to an American movie, the did-she-or-didn’t-she blink moment, and the very real possibility that the entire shower scene could have played in silence. Plus, you meet the famous child actor from the 1950’s who helped glue hairs into the head of Norman’s mother’s corpse. All the while, Hitchcock is convinced that the picture he’s making is, in a word, awful.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Psycho, add free on Amazon music.
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0:08.0	From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is part four of Inside Psycho. Oh, July 2016, France, France.
0:37.0	France.
0:39.4	In a bright and vibrant corner of Paris, the Cinematec Francaise, home to one of the largest
0:46.5	collections of film-related objects in the world.
0:51.8	It was not his first time in Paris, not by any stretch, but it was his first time in this museum.
0:59.3	He wanted to reunite with an old friend.
1:05.0	Through a dark dank hall he walked,
1:09.0	the dim lights and moisture controls
1:12.0	protect thousands of one of the kind items.
1:17.0	He stepped into a gallery and stopped, cold. Before him, encased in bulletproof glass, under the beam of a spotlight was the desiccated
1:30.1	corpse of a woman aged 40 poisoned with Stricknine by her son Norman. He stared
1:37.8	into the empty eye sockets and smiled.
1:43.0	He was Jerry Mathers,
1:45.0	fans of Classic TV, knowing better,
1:48.0	as The Beaver.
1:50.0	See, in 1960, Jerry was a kid shooting Leave it to Beaver at Universal.
1:58.0	The show's makeup man Bob Dawn was working on the other side of the lot on a super secret movie under the
2:04.6	direction of Alfred Hitchcock. One day Bob brought a skull to the set. He had to
2:10.6	age it and glue hair onto it to make it look like the corpse of Norman Bates' mother.
2:17.0	One hair strand at a time, it was slow, painstaking work.
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