Anthony Perkins had a boyish, earnest quality, which Alfred Hitchcock exploited when the actor starred as Norman Bates in the film Psycho (1960). It was about Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a young woman who steals $40,000 from her employer and flees by car, stopping by chance at a motel run by Norman Bates [Perkins], where she is murdered in her room’s shower, seemingly by Norman’s mother. Initially, the film divided critics due to its controversial subject matter, but audience interest and outsta