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

When he hosted Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, Anthony Perkins spoofed his role in PSYCHO ('60) in a skit called "The Norman Bates School of Motel Management." Other allusions to the film abounded throughout the episode. #SummerUnderTheStars | Turner Classic Movies: TCM