Vera Miles
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- born: 23/Aug/1929 (Boise City, Oklahoma, USA)
Biography
Vera Miles is an American actress.
She was born Vera Ralston in Oklahoma, and grew up in Pratt and in Wichita, Kansas where she graduated from Wichita North High School. She became "Miss Kansas" in 1948.
Her career as a beauty queen earned a minor part in "Two Tickets to Broadway" (1951). She posed for cheesecake photos, and married her leading man from Tarzan's "Hidden Jungle" (1955), Gordon Scott, whom she later divorced. John Ford cast her as Jeffrey Hunter's spirited love interest in "The Searchers" (1956), and her career took a dramatic turn upward. A year later, she played Henry Fonda's beleaguered wife in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" (1957).
Pregnancy cost her the lead in "Vertigo" but Hitchcock did cast her as Janet Leigh's sister Lila Crane in "Psycho" (1960), in which her character discovers the truth about Norman Bates' mother. Following another stint for Ford in 1962's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" she got her first parts at the Disney studio, in "A Tiger Walks" (1964), "Those Calloways" (1965), and "Follow Me, Boys!" (1966).
She continued to play roles in Disney into the 1970s. She did television series work for a time, then in 1983 she reprised her most famous role in "Psycho II", with her character vociferously protesting the proposed parole of Norman Bates (played, as in the original, by Anthony Perkins).
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- The Wrong Man (1956) - cast: Rose Balestrero
- Psycho (1960) - cast: Lila Crane
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Revenge (02/Oct/1955) - cast: Elsa Spann
- Startime - Incident at a Corner (05/Apr/1960) - cast: Jean Medwick
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Don't Look Behind You (27/Sep/1962) - cast: Daphne
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Death Scene (08/Mar/1965) - cast: Nick Revere
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