Janet Leigh
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And if there's no other way, I mean, if wherever I happen to be only has a shower, it's with the door, the shower is never closed, the bathroom is very wet, and I'm always facing the door, and there is something by my side that I could grab if I had to.
We did not go on tour for this picture.
If you remember the classic now teaser for the movie is you never saw us really.
You saw Mr. Hitchcock taking you through the motel and the various places saying, oh, well, we don't want to talk about what happened there.
I mean, it's a classic teaser.
And he went on tour around the world.
We never gave an interview.
He was afraid that we might just let it out.
And I don't know if you remember in the book the story of how it came.
Because, again, this was a first, except for roadshow pictures, where you would have a matinee at 2.30 and an evening one at 7.30, like Gone with the Wind or something like that.
Most movies just ran continuously.
and you could come in at any time.
And what happened was he was sitting with his assistant and he said, you know, he said, I just thought he said, this stars Janet Leigh and Tony Perkins.
What if somebody should come in in the middle of the picture and keeps looking for Janet Leigh and she's not there?
That's going to be very strange.
So he said, there's only one thing to do.
He said, we can't let anybody in after the picture starts.
Well, there was all heck to pay because the theater owners just... I mean, they couldn't believe that that was a rule.
And actually, the day it opened, the...