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1959 NORMAN BATES - Norman Bates first made his appearance in the novel Psycho by Robert Bloch (1959). Norman Bates is a psycho and first appears on screen in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film. Bates first appears as innocent as he welcomes Marion Crane to his isolated motel. He serves her sandwiches in a parlor adorned with stuffed birds, and talks about taxidermy ‘My hobby is stuffing things’, his argumentative mother ‘She needs me. It’s not as if she were a maniac a raving thing’, and his philosophy of life ‘We’re all in our private traps, clamped in them and none of us can ever get out’. Norman famously said, ‘We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?”

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