Joseph Stefano
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Raised in Philadelphia, Stefano abandoned high school to chase acting in New York, performed as Jerry Stevens, and later composed pop songs for Las Vegas shows before turning to screenwriting in the late 1950s with Martin Ritt’s The Black Orchid. Hitchcock hired him to adapt Robert Bloch’s novel into Psycho, a screenplay that earned the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best Motion Pict…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources