Lila Crane
Encyclopedia
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| Gender | female Female Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova .- Defining characteristics :The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male... |
| Born | Unknown |
| Died | 1982 |
| Race | White White people White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin... |
| Relationships | Marion Crane Marion Crane Marion Crane is a fictional character from the 1960 film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.-Fictional character biography:Unhappy in her relationship with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis , Marion rejects his idea to take the afternoon off and rushes back to her storefront real estate office. Her boss,... (sister) Sam Loomis (husband) Mary Loomis (daughter) |
| Portrayed by: | Vera Miles Vera Miles Vera Miles is an American film actress who gained popularity for starring in films such as The Searchers, The Wrong Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Psycho and Psycho II.-Early life:... (Psycho, Psycho II) Julianne Moore Julianne Moore Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards.... (Psycho: 1998 remake) |
Lila Loomis (née
NEE
NEE is a political protest group whose goal was to provide an alternative for voters who are unhappy with all political parties at hand in Belgium, where voting is compulsory.The NEE party was founded in 2005 in Antwerp...
Crane) is a fictional character from the 1959 Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
novel Psycho and its 1960 film adaptation. Additionally, she appears in Bloch's sequel novel
Psycho II (novel)
Psycho II is a 1982 novel that Robert Bloch wrote as a sequel to his 1959 novel Psycho. The novel was completed before the screenplay was written for the unrelated 1983 film Psycho II. According to Bloch, Universal Pictures loathed the novel, which was intended to critique Hollywood splatter films...
and the unrelated sequel film of the same name.
Fictional biography
Lila Crane is the sister of Marion CraneMarion Crane
Marion Crane is a fictional character from the 1960 film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.-Fictional character biography:Unhappy in her relationship with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis , Marion rejects his idea to take the afternoon off and rushes back to her storefront real estate office. Her boss,...
(Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh , born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis....
). After Marion steals $40,000 from her employer, she plans to run off from Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
to the (fictional) small town of Fairvale, California, where her boyfriend Sam Loomis (John Gavin
John Gavin
John Gavin is an American film actor and a former United States Ambassador to Mexico. Gavin is half Mexican and fluent in Spanish....
) lives. Lila travels to Fairvale to meet Sam, hoping that Marion would be there with him and the money. She planned to convince Marion to return the money to her employer, so that charges wouldn't be pressed. Upon arrving there, she learns from Sam that he never saw Marion in the past few days; she's disappeared. Shortly after her arrival, a private investigator hired by Marion's employer, Milton Arbogast (Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.- Early life :...
), also comes into contact.
Arbogast searches local hotels, eventually coming to the Bates Motel. After calling to update Lila and Sam about tracing Marion to the motel, he disappears as well. This prompts Sam and Lila to pose as a married couple in order to get a room at the motel to investigate without arousing the suspicion of the owner, Norman Bates
Norman Bates
Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho, and portrayed by Anthony Perkins as the main antagonist of the 1960 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
(Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor, best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion and as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho , and its three sequels.-Early life:...
). Lila makes her way to Norman's house while Sam distracts him. Sam is knocked unconscious by Norman after realizing she's not around. When she enters the fruit cellar, she makes a ghastly discovery: the corpse of Norman's mother
Norma Bates (Psycho)
Mrs. Norma Bates is a fictional character in the novel Psycho by Robert Bloch and the Universal Studios Psycho franchise starring Anthony Perkins, Psycho, Psycho II, Psycho III, Psycho IV: The Beginning and the TV spin-off Bates Motel...
, who Norman claimed was alive. A moment later, Norman enters dressed in his mother's clothes and a wig, wielding a kitchen knife. He attacks her, but Sam tackles him to the ground and disarms him. A psychiatrist
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
later tells her that Norman — who murders people while believing he is his mother — killed her sister and Arbogast.
In Psycho II, Norman is released from the mental institution he was placed in at the end of the first film. Lila protests angrily, and has a petition signed by 743 people, including family members of Norman's seven victims. However, Lila and her petition are powerless, and Norman returns to his house and motel.
Norman is given a job as a cook at a local diner. He meets a coworker, a young woman named Mary (Meg Tilly), who was kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend. Norman offers her his place for her to stay. Later, it is revealed that Mary is Lila's daughter, and they are trying to get Norman recommitted by means of dressing up as his mother and leaving notes and calls claiming to be her. As this goes on, more people are murdered by someone who looks like Norman in his "Mother" guise, first Norman's motel manager, then a teenage boy making out with a girl in Norman's fruit cellar.
Later, Mary tells Lila that she is through with secretly taunting Norman. Enraged, Lila sneaks to Norman's fruit cellar to put on her "Mother" costume. In the process of doing so, she is murdered by the woman who appears to be "Mother."
With Norman continuing to slip back into insanity, Mary dresses up as his mother in order to get him off the phone, as she thinks Lila is on the other end pretending to be "Mother." Mary's disguise is initially unsuccessful, but she is then startled by Norman's psychiatrist, Dr. Raymond, and accidentally kills him. Raymond had figured out the conspiracy and was trying to save Norman from being driven insane. At this point Norman begins calling Mary "Mother," and starts backing her into the fruit cellar to hide her. In the process, Norman suffers several stab wounds from her. After Lila's body is revealed protruding from a pile of coal, Mary becomes convinced that Norman had indeed killed all the missing people. As she attempts to kill him, the police arrive and shoot her, saving Norman.
It is revealed later that Emma Spool
Emma Spool
Mrs. Emma Spool is a fictional character in the Psycho film series, created by Tom Holland for the screenplay of the 1982 sequel to the 1960 film Psycho, Psycho II. More attention is given to her character in Psycho III, although she's a corpse...
(Claudia Bryar
Claudia Bryar
Claudia Bryar was an American actress who mostly specialized in television. Active from the 1950s to the 1980s, she is perhaps best known for her role as Mrs...
), Norman's maternal aunt, killed Lila and the others. She claims to be Norman's real mother and killed the people because they had "wronged him".
Novels
The character of Lila Crane is basically the same, as is the plot events, in Robert BlochRobert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
's novel Psycho. However, the plots of Psycho II
Psycho II (novel)
Psycho II is a 1982 novel that Robert Bloch wrote as a sequel to his 1959 novel Psycho. The novel was completed before the screenplay was written for the unrelated 1983 film Psycho II. According to Bloch, Universal Pictures loathed the novel, which was intended to critique Hollywood splatter films...
the book and Psycho II the movie are nothing alike. In the Psycho II novel, there are no mentioned plans of releasing Norman from the institution. Instead, he escapes. He then travels to Fairvale, where he murders Sam and Lila Loomis.
Portrayals
Lila Crane/Loomis was portrayed by Vera MilesVera Miles
Vera Miles is an American film actress who gained popularity for starring in films such as The Searchers, The Wrong Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Psycho and Psycho II.-Early life:...
in the 1960 film Psycho and its 1983 sequel, Psycho II. Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards....
portrayed the character in the remake
Psycho (1998 film)
Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
of the 1960 film.
Lila is one of three characters from the original film to return in the sequels, the other two being Norman Bates and Dr. Richmond. However, Richmond would be portrayed by a different actor in his second film appearance, Psycho IV: The Beginning
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Psycho IV: The Beginning is a 1990 made-for-cable-television horror film that serves as both the third sequel and a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, as it includes both events after Psycho III while focusing on flashbacks of events that took place prior to the original film...
.
Comic books
Lila appears in the colorized 1992 three-issue comic bookComic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
miniseries adaptation of the original film, printed by Innovation Publishing
Innovation Publishing
Innovation Publishing was an American comic book company based in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was co-founded by David Campiti in 1988 after writing a business proposal and raising US$400,000 to finance its launch...
.
Novels
- Psycho, 1959
- Psycho IIPsycho II (novel)Psycho II is a 1982 novel that Robert Bloch wrote as a sequel to his 1959 novel Psycho. The novel was completed before the screenplay was written for the unrelated 1983 film Psycho II. According to Bloch, Universal Pictures loathed the novel, which was intended to critique Hollywood splatter films...
, 1982 - Psycho HousePsycho HousePsycho House is a 1990 novel that Robert Bloch wrote as a sequel to his 1959 novel Psycho and 1982 novel Psycho II....
, 1990 (mentioned only)
Films
- Psycho, 1960
- Psycho II, 1983
- Psycho IIIPsycho IIIPsycho III is a 1986 sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The film stars Anthony Perkins , Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey and Roberta Maxwell. The screenplay is written by Charles Edward Pogue...
, 1986 (mentioned only) - Psycho remakePsycho (1998 film)Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
, 1998