Janet Leigh News

Taking a shower has never felt truly safe ever since Janet Leigh stepped under the spray in the bathroom of nondescript Cabin 1 at the Bates Motel, during the most famous scene of Alfred Hitchcock 's stylish horror film from 1960, Psycho .

This year is the 50th anniversary of the film Psycho and the Royal Society of Chemistry want to make a short film based on the shower scene showing how to conserve water.

Audiences have become so accustomed to cinema as a medium of action that it is easy to forget that some of the most truthful moments in movie history are those in which action is all but absent: Janet Leigh as Marian Crane driving away from the scene of her crime in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, staring ahead at the road - guilt, fear and tension ...

Thursday "Bye Bye Birdie:" The Aero Theatre in the heart of Santa Monica is screening this beloved musical in a restored 35mm print.

The Scream Rug has been designed by Calle Henzel for the Swedish company, a-carpet, who seem single-handedly intent on bring us more interesting floor coverings.

MedusaMorlock of the TCM Blog has a lovely birthday tribute posted to the wonderful Betty Garrett , who turned 90 years old a few days ago.

Starring Janet Leigh - SPECTRUM Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:58 PM Musick Reviews Aside from a horse's head in my bed or a body in the trunk that I didn't put there, I generally like surprises.

DITA VON TEESE treated Cannes Film Festival VIPs to a saucy shower scene last night.

Thanks, Mom. Mothers have long passed on acting genes to their children. Let's meet some of them, starting with the mother of all horror movie scenes.

Was Hitchcock a master in his use of music? John H. McWhorter posted 7/01/2007 1 of 4 I t's no surprise that Jack Sullivan's Hitchcock's Music , has gotten so much press.

Here's a smattering of free stuff to do in Dallas and the surrounding area for Apr 9-15: It's tax-crunch time.

Harry Houdini Summit Entertainment has unlocked "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero," picking up feature-film rights to the biography by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.

A British auction house says it was unable to sell the score to Alfred Hitchcock's bloodcurdling movie "Psycho." Bonhams says the 20-page work was withdrawn from a sale Tuesday after failing to make its minimum price.

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NEVER have violins or showers been so scary. The heart-stopping score to Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Psycho is to be sold at auction.

The heart-stopping score to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, including the screeching music to the film's infamous shower scene, is being put up for sale, British auction house Bonhams said Tuesday.

Why does the funny man Paul Merton see so much of himself in the ultimate scary man, Alfred Hitchcock? Alfred Hitchcock first grabbed me by the lapels when I was 8 - and he hasn't let go since.

It's the ones who are at the core of the crisis who are always the last to know.

Magicians and escape artists have always held and they continue to fascinate many people.

Terry Johnson's "Hitchcock Blonde" centers on the mystery of a lost film by the famed director Alfred Hitchcock; or maybe it's about a college professor with desires or a student with secrets; or maybe it's ...