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According to Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the censors in charge of enforcing the Production Code for the MPAA wrangled with Hitchcock because some censors insisted they could see one of Janet Leigh's breasts. Hitchcock held onto the print for several days, left it untouched, and resubmitted it for approval. Astoundingly, each of the censors reversed their positions -— those who had previously seen the breast now did not, and those who had not, now did. They passed the film after the director removed one shot that showed the buttocks of Leigh's stand-in.[5] The board was ... upset by the racy opening, so Hitchcock said that if they let him keep the shower scene he would reshoot the opening with them on the set. Since they did not show up for the reshoot, the opening stayed.[5]
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(AP)Janet Leigh's most famous scene was so terrifying it put her off showers for the rest of her life. Leigh, who died Sunday, insisted she always took baths after seeing the finished cut of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," in which her character was slashed to death in a motel shower in what may be the silver screen's most memorable murder.
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Janet Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a motel room shower, has died. She was 77.
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Janet was known as “The Queen of Scream”. She was given this name for the infamous murder scene in “Psycho”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Janet’s character is murdered while naked in the shower). After Janet saw the movie at the premier she was never able to take a shower due to feeling “too vulnerable”.
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Leigh aged poorly. She's looked so old for so long. She's ... gotten publicly nuttier and nuttier over the years. She seemed nice, and LOVED to talk about working with Hitchcock and other Hollywood exploits.
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Throughout filming, Hitchcock created and hid various versions of the "Mother corpse" prop in Janet Leigh's dressing room closet. There were no hard feelings as Leigh took the joke well, and she wonders whether it was done to keep her on edge and ... more in character.[5]
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