Born on April 3, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, actress and pinup model Marli Renfro has the distinction of being hired as Janet Leigh's body double for the infamous PSYCHO shower scene (read more about that HERE) as detailed in Robert "Zodiac" Graysmith's THE GIRL IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S SHOWER (Berkley True Crime, 2010). It focuses on her life and career and included the assumption that she was later murdered. Fortunately, it was a case of mistaken identity and she turned up, quite alive and living under the media radar.
Miss Renfro enjoyed a number of hobbies, including deep-sea fishing, bare-back horse riding and motorcycling. She was also an enthusiastic nudist and counted among her friends Diane Webber and her husband Joe.
During her modeling career, Marli showed up in one of Martin Goodman's adult humor magazines.
STARE (19-years old, August 1957):
STARE (25-years old, February 1964):
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Before she danced her way to infamy in Ed Wood's ORGY OF THE DEAD (1964), actress, pinup and nude model Mickey Jines appeared in a one-pager in STARE (October 1961). One source of her biographical data has her birthday as May 4, 1944. If this is correct, she would have been 17 in this photo.
A bit more about Mickey Jines HERE.
Something quite nice to wake up to. Thanks. For the record "Orgy of the Dead" is one of the most fascinating and at the same time dullest movies I've ever seen. It's like a fever dream.
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