Marli Renfro was the body double for Janet Leigh in the shower scene of the 1960 film Psycho.
11 Facts About Marli Renfro
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Marli Renfro appeared on the cover of the September 1960 edition of Playboy.
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Marli Renfro spent some time working as a showgirl in Las Vegas, and worked as a Playboy Bunny.
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Unperturbed by working nude, Marli Renfro was hired as the body double for the actress Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.
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Leigh's account of the shower scene says all the actual shower footage in the film was of her and the only time Marli Renfro was used was in an overhead shot that was eventually cut due to censors' concerns.
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Marli Renfro subsequently appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's 1962 film Tonight for Sure.
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Marli Renfro's name was Myra Davis, known as Myra Jones.
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Author Robert Graysmith, who had a lifelong fascination with Marli Renfro, noted a comment by Davis's granddaughter that Davis would never have done nude work.
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Marli Renfro set out to find Renfro and discovered that she was living in California.
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Marli Renfro subsequently wrote a book, The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower, about Renfro's role in Psycho and the confusion over Davis's death.
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Marli Renfro has lived in the Mojave Desert since 1970.