MCA. See Music Corporation of America (MCA)
Merrick, James W., 105
Metzner, Jeffery, 10
Meurisse, Paul, 21 MGM, 16, 178, 179
Michener, James, 68
Mildred Pierce (Cain), 12
Miles, Vera, 49, 130, 155, 156, 172, 184, 199
cast as Lila Crane, 62-65
costuming for, 73-74
publicity shots, 152
and shooting Psycho, 81, 82, 91, 96, 100, 123, 126-27
Mills, Mort, 67, 75, 199
Milo, George, 28, 70, 135
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (film), 16
Mitzi (double), 123
Moldea, Dan E., 29
Mon Amour (film), 169
Montage technique, 101-2, 105, 117, 124
Mother character, 35, 75-76, 113, 122, 126-27, 130
actors used, 66
costuming for, 73
voice of, 131-35
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), 53, 76-78
Muhl, Edward, 52-53
Mummy, The (film), 52
Murder (film), 102, 191
Murders in the Rue Morgue (film), 52
Music Corporation of America (MCA), 13, 26, 27, 29, 32, 37, 51, 53, 60, 61, 187
Hitchcock stock in, 182
Stefano at, 37-38
Mystery Writers of America, 12n, 188
Nabokov, Vladimir, 186, 190
Naked Edge, The (film), 170
Narcejac, Thomas, 20-21
New Wave, 168-69, 184
New York Times, 11, 18, 21, 33, 106, 165, 169, 171, 175, 176
Newman, Paul, 186
Night of the Hunter, The (film), 22
Night of the Living Dead (film), 191, 192
Nightmare (film), 190
Nightmare on Elm Street (film series), 189, 191-92
No Bail for the Judge (film), 18
Nolan, Jeanette, 66, 132-33, 199
North by Northwest (film), 16, 25, 31, 33, 36, 38, 41, 55, 59, 60, 67, 99, 125, 178, 179
Bass work on, 48, 57
censors and, 78
critical reception, 164
foreign release, 43
shooting, 80
title sequence, 48, 140
Notorious (film), 16, 59, 86, 164, 177
Novak, Kim, 118
Nudity, 74, 78, 101, 102, 103-4, 105, 106, 108-9, 110-11, 113, 117
censors and, 145-46
Nyby, Christian, 22
Oakland, Simon, 66, 71, 127, 128, 199
Odets, Clifford, 37
Old Dark House, The (film), 52
On the Waterfront (film), 60, 119
“One More Mile to Go” (TV episode), 32
Ormsby, Alan, 191
Oscars, 177-79
Palladino, Tony, 10-11, 147-48, 152
Paradine Case, The (film), 164
Paramount, 15-16, 37, 52, 59, 170, 185
Hitchcock films for, 17, 23
liaison with Code office, 77
and making of Psycho, 26, 23-29, 41, 51, 53, 54, 94
and release of Psycho, 149, 150, 160, 161
Paranoiac (film), 190
Parks, Gordon, 156
Parsons, Louella, 156
Pechter, William, 162
Peck, Gregory, 114
Peckinpah, Sam, 191
Penn, Arthur, 71, 191
Percy, Charles, 187
Perkins, Anthony, 37, 73, 81, 82, 128, 131-32, 134-35, 156, 166, 178-79, 188
on audience reaction to Psycho, 163
career, 199
cast as Bates, 59-60, 61
costuming, 74
critics on, 165, 166
directed Psycho III, 189
publicity shots, 152
and shooting Psycho, 39, 40, 66, 79, 85, 88-89, 91, 95, 101, 106, 109-10, 113, 116, 119, 120, 123
Perkins, V. F., 111, 121, 166-67
Perlberg, William, 28
Phantom Lady (film), 27, 52
Phantom of the Opera, The (film), 52, 70
Pickman, Jerry, 166
Piege pour un Homme Seul (play), 182
Piersall, Jimmy, 59
Pinckard, William, 13, 19
Pinkowski, Leroy, 173
Poe, Edgar Allan, 9, 12
Point-of-view shots, 122, 124-25, 130
Polanski, Roman, 165, 189, 191, 192, 193
Ponti, Carlo, 37
Posner, Leonard, 29
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain), 12
Postproduction (Psycho), 115-16, 129-46
Powell, Michael, 191
Preminger, Otto, 18, 38, 77, 140
Preproduction {Psycho), 31, 92-93, 120
casting, 58-67
censorship in, 127
makeup, 74-76
production design, 67-71
studio, 51-54
technical crew, 54-58
wardrobe, 71-74
Presley, Elvis, 37
Production (Psycho), 33, 49-50, 54, 67-71, 141
Promotion (Psycho), 161-62, 165
Psycho (film)
box-office success, 164, 169-70, 171, 181, 187
cast and credits, 195-96
cost of, 156
financing, 29, 134
Hitchcock’s maneuvers to make, 25-30
idea to make quickly and inexpensively, 26, 28-29, 33, 55, 148, 164
impact of, 172-73, 189-90, 191-92, 194
murder that inspired, 1-6
novel of, 7-14
point of view in filming of, 45
preplanning, 61-62, 71-72
reactions to screenings, 148—49
reputation of, 187-88, 189
research for, 70-71, 75
rights to, 182
secrecy about, 80, 81, 94-96, 156
successors to, 189-90, 192-94
versions of, 171
Psycho (Bloch) (novel), 7-14, 18-19
paperback edition, 156
screen rights, 13-14
Psycho II (Bloch), 189
Psycho II (film), 65, 189
Psycho III (film), 189
Psycho IV (proposed film), 189
Publicity (Psycho), 94-96, 106, 147-57, 161, 162, 163-64
Quality of Murder, The (Boucher), 12n
Quinn, Anthony, 37
Rackmil, Milton, 52-53
Randall, Tony, 179
Rawson, Clayton, 10
Reagan, Ronald, 26
Rear projection, 80, 92
Rear Window (film), 16, 23, 25-26, 29, 43, 48, 59, 86, 177, 183
censors and, 78
score, 136
Rebecca (film), 16, 27, 38, 53, 78, 136
Academy Award, 177
Redgrave, Vanessa, 60
Renfro, Marli, 104, 110-11, 113
Repulsion (film), 165, 191, 193
Resnais, Alain, 169
Revue Productions, 26, 27, 38, 53, 55
Rice, Craig, 10n
Riggs, Rita, 63, 81, 86, 87, 172, 200
costuming nude scenes, 103-4
on Hitchcock, 99
and postproduction, 135
on shooting Psycho, 91, 94, 97, 106, 108-9, 110-11, 113
wardrobe, 71-73, 76
Rio Bravo (film), 169
Robertson, Douglas, 18
Robertson, Peggy, 18-19, 20, 38-39, 53, 65, 84, 135, 200
Rohmer, Eric, 168, 169
Roman Holiday (film), 29
Romero, George, 191, 192
Rope (film), 16, 153, 183
Rosemary’s Baby (film), 192
Rosza, Miklos, 136
Russell, John L., 28, 82-84, 93, 100, 111, 114, 115, 123, 124, 135, 178, 179
Russell, William, 133, 138
Saboteur (film), 16, 52, 67, 93, 125
Saint, Eva Marie, 16, 60
Sarris, Andrew, 165, 168
Scarf, The (Bloch), 7-8, 12
Schley, Art, 2-3
Schlom, Herman, 28, 79
Schlom, Marshall, 28, 148, 161, 163, 200
&nb
sp; on Hitchcock, 97-98, 99, 176
and postproduction, 130, 133-35, 138, 143, 145, 146
and shooting Psycho, 79-80, 82, 83-84, 85, 86, 90, 92, 95, 99-100, 104, 108, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122-24, 125, 128
Schoephoerster, Lloyd, 2
Score (Psycho), 57, 136-39, 142, 144, 155, 179, 189
recording of, 187-88
Scott, Gordon, 64
Scream of Fear (film), 190
Screen Actors Guild, 26, 92
Screenings (Psycho), 135-36, 142-45, 148-49
Screenplays (Psycho), 31-50, 60, 69-70
Script (Psycho), 51, 81
as production blueprint, 49-50
sent to Hays Office, 76-78
Searchers, The (film), 64, 169
Seaton, George, 28
Second Serve (film), 60
Secret Agent, The (film), 17
Selznick, David O., 23, 25, 38, 53-54, 153
Set(s) (Psycho), 67, 70, 80, 86, 102, 108, 125-26
Shadow of a Doubt (film), 16, 52, 93, 164, 177, 188
Shamley Productions, 27, 30, 32, 53, 55, 57
Shooting (Psycho), 79-128
schedule, 53, 80
script, 47-48, 54
Short Night (film), 189
Shower scene, 19, 20, 58, 74, 86, 120, 122, 143, 144, 193
audience reaction, 163
auteurship, 106-8, 111-12
Bass and, 100-18
and censors, 78, 145-46
impact of, 117, 145
in novel, 9-10
parodies of, 189
in screenplays, 34, 35, 42-43, 47, 48
set design, 70
sound for, 138
Shurlock, Geoffrey, 77
Shurlock office, 127, 145-46
Sight and Sound, 166, 174, 187
Signoret, Simone, 21, 167
Simon & Schuster, 10-11, 14
Siodmak, Robert, 18
Sirk, Douglas, 60
Smith, F. J., 32
Sons and Lovers (film), 178, 179
Sound (Psycho), 36, 120, 136-39
South, Leonard, 17, 28, 83, 101, 164, 172, 182, 200
on Hitchcock, 174, 178, 181, 182, 184, 186
Spellbound (film), 16, 17, 59, 102, 114, 136, 177
Spillane, Mickey, 12
Spoto, Donald, 80
Stack, Robert, 66
Stage Fright (film), 16, 66, 164
Stanton, Paul, 182-83
Stefano, Joseph, 80, 86, 104, 117, 139, 162-63, 177, 187, 189
and casting, 65, 66
and critical reception, 164, 170
on Hitchcock, 58, 59, 174-75, 179
Hitchcock’s options with, 183, 185-86
and production design, 71
response to screening, 135-36, 143, 144-45
screenplay, 37-50, 57, 60, 62, 69, 77, 78, 89, 101, 126
and shooting Psycho, 90, 93, 95, 103, 106, 109-10, 120-21
and success of Psycho, 111, 161, 172
works, 200
Stein, Jules, 26
Steinberg, Herb, 94-95, 149
Stephenson, Pamela, 189
Sternberg, Josef von, 52, 60
Stewart, James, 18, 22, 32, 59, 64, 69, 118, 148
Stockwell, Dean, 59
Stoleroff, Paul, 140, 141
Storyboards (Psycho), 48, 72, 122, 140
shower scene, 101, 102-3, 104-5, 107, 108
Strangers on a Train (film), 16, 17, 48, 65, 66
Stritch, Elaine, 131
Stroheim, Erich Von, 52
Studio (Psycho), 51-54
Sturges, Preston, 52
Suspense, 155
Suspicion (film), 16, 17, 27, 78
Swanson, Gloria, 52
Swanson, H. N., 17
Taboos, 47, 152
Taylor, John Russell, 27, 164, 169
Taylor, Rod, 65
Taylor, Samuel, 18, 31, 38
Taylor, Vaughn, 201
Technical crew, 28, 79-80, 182
preproduction, 51, 54-58
Technical innovation, 91-93
Television, 192, 193
Hitchcock and, 16, 18, 27-28, 37, 71, 79, 82, 182, 189, 204
Ten Commandments, The (film), 94, 176
Thalberg, Irving, 52
They Won’t Believe Me (film), 27
Thirard, Armand, 20
Thomas, Robert, 182
Thompson, Jim
Killer Inside Me, The, 9
Thor, Larry, 127
39 Steps, The (film), 16, 17, 25, 38, 39, 43, 48
Title design, titles (Psycho), 139-42, 152
To Catch a Thief (am), 21, 23, 43, 48, 54, 58, 86
Tomasini, George, 28, 58, 99-100, 117, 118, 120, 182, 201
editing, 133-34
postproduction, 135, 142
Topaz (film), 187
Topaz (Uris), 187
Torn Curtain (film), 45, 186-87
Touch of Evil (film), 67, 69, 80, 165
Transvestism, 4, 13, 20, 59, 127
Trouble with Harry, The (film), 16, 23, 43, 84, 177
Truffaut, Francois, 69, 86, 107, 111, 136, 173, 192
auteur theory, 168
book of conversations with Hitchcock, 169
Tryon, Tom, 65
Turner, Lana, 60, 61
Tuttle, Lurene, 67, 95-96, 156, 201
TV Movies and Video Guide (Maltin), 189-90
Twentieth Century-Fox, 37, 182
Tynan, Kenneth, 164
Under Capricorn (film), 16, 18, 59
United Motion Picture Organization, 20, 21
Universal-International Pictures, 201
Universal-International Studios, 22, 27, 29, 60, 61, 69, 189
Hitchcock’s production deal with, 181-82, 187
Psycho shot at, 51-54
supervision of Hitchcock, 185, 186
Universal Pictures, 10n
Universal-Revue, 53
Universal Studios Tour, 189-90
Uris, Leon, 187
Vanel, Charles, 21, 167
Varden, Norma, 65
Variety, 80, 105, 107
Vertigo (film), 16, 18, 20, 23, 28, 31, 32, 38, 50, 59, 84, 99, 118, 133, 139, 144-45
advertising, 149, 151-52
Bass work on, 57
credit sequence, 115
critical reception, 164
Vera Miles and, 64, 74
title sequence, 48, 140
Village of Stars (Stanton), 182-83
Violence in films, 10, 101, 102, 121, 173, 189, 193
Voyeurism, 48, 86, 93
Waltzes from Vienna (film), 16
Wardrobe (Psycho), 71-74
Warner Bros., 15, 23
Wasserman, Lew R., 26-27, 38, 41, 81, 161, 163, 176
and Hitchcock deal with Universal, 181-82
and release of Psycho, 148
at screening, 142
Watson, Waldon O., 133, 138
Waxman, Franz, 136
Wayne, David, 32
Weiler, A. H., 33
Welles, Orson, 57, 60, 69, 80, 119, 132, 133, 153
Weltner, George, 23, 149
Werewolf of London (film), 52
Wertham, Fredric, 173
West, Mae, 52
Wheeler, Hugh, 191
Whitman, Stuart, 65
Whodunit genre, 9
Wild in the Country (film), 37
Wilder, Billy, 52, 178, 179
Wilder, Thornton, 190
Williams, Edward W., 58
Willson, Henry, 86
Wimpy, Rex, 80-81, 152
Winchester ’73 (film), 148
Wood, Robin, 160, 168, 169
Worden, Bernice, 2-4
Worden, Frank, 2, 3
Wray, Richard G., 58
Wrong Man, The (film), 16, 18, 23, 28, 58, 63-64, 99, 169
Wyler, William, 29, 38, 59, 164, 178
Young and Innocent (film), 39
Zinnemann, Fred, 60, 178
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