Sunday, July 18, 2010

A Book in Review: The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower

The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower : A Murder That Became A Real-Life Mystery, A Mystery That Became An Obsession By: Robert Graysmith
Non-fiction, true crime, history, biography, film 289 pages
Book Count: 47

This is a book about many people. The main story is that of Marli Renfro, the uncredited body double in the Hitchcock film Psycho. It is also about the sexual revolution of the 60's, Alftred Hictcock, Francis Ford Coppola, a murderer much like the character of Norman Bates, the author of the book, the writer of Psycho, the murder the book is about, the murder of Janet Leigh's stand in, the Playboy empire, film history and the author's obsession with Marli Renfro. It mixes in all of these stories well, but one should have seen the movie before reading the book. Reading the info on all the work that went into the making of the film makes one want to see it again.

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