Marli Renfro
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Lovely, buxom, and shapely redhead Marli Renfro was a professional
stripper and glamour model who appeared in a handful of men's magazines
from the late 1950s up until the mid-'60s. Among the adult publications
her photos were featured in are "Ace," "Beau," "Adam," "Follies,"
"Gala," "Modern Man," and "Escapade." Moreover, Marli graced the cover
of the September 1960 issue of "Playboy." The 23-year-old Renfro was
paid $400 a week by
Alfred Hitchcock to be the
uncredited body double for Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in
the shower murder set piece in the horror slasher classic
Psycho (1960). Leigh claimed in numerous
interviews that she did the bulk of the shower scene herself and that
the only time Marli was used was when Marion's corpse is wrapped up in
plastic by Anthony Perkins.
Marli Renfro's only other film gig was a sizable part in the
soft-core Western
Tonight for Sure (1962), which
was directed by a very young
Francis Ford Coppola.