![]() ![]() Readers first met the Marders in “The Hellfire Club” (2018), Jake Tapper’s debut thriller, when they were a young couple living in Washington in the 1950s. Then again, that’s how things always roll for Margaret and her husband, the dashing congressman Charlie Marder. That’s a lot to tell a relative stranger. With practically no prompting, Leigh explains exactly how the “Psycho” shower scene was shot (using chocolate sauce for blood), who the body double was, how the Rat Pack has hit on her since her husband, Tony Curtis, ran off with a teenager, how viciously Sinatra treated Lauren Bacall and how Sinatra tried to commit suicide over Ava Gardner. The occasion: a wrap party for “The Manchurian Candidate” thrown by another of its stars, Frank Sinatra. Janet Leigh, movie star, is in the ladies’ room at Toots Shor’s when a zoologist named Margaret Marder runs into her. ![]()
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