Hitchcock's the 29 Steps

Hitchcock handcuffed Madeleine Carroll to her co-star with cuffs that were purposely tight enough to cause her pain. In 1960 while filming Psycho, he forced Janet Lee to spend six straight days standing in the shower underwater for hours at a time. To this day, Lee refuses to take showers only using baths because she's still alive. He called the lead actress the Birmingham Tarte and said during an interview after the movie, nothing pleases me more than to knock the lady likeness out of them.