Vera Miles (born Vera June Ralston; August 23, 1929) is an American film actress popular for playing in such films as The Searchers, Psycho, The Wrong Man and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Miles was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Burnice (née Wyrick) and Thomas Ralston. She grew up in Pratt and in Wichita, Kansas where, as a teenager, she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High Sch...
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Vera Miles (born Vera June Ralston; August 23, 1929) is an American film actress popular for playing in such films as The Searchers, Psycho, The Wrong Man and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Miles was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Burnice (née Wyrick) and Thomas Ralston. She grew up in Pratt and in Wichita, Kansas where, as a teenager, she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High School (1947). She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948.
Her success as a beauty queen prompted Miles' move to Los Angeles where, in 1950, she soon began landing small roles in film and television. These included a minor part as a chorus girl in Two Tickets to Broadway (1951), a musical starring Janet Leigh, with whom Miles would go on to co-star nine years later in the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, Psycho. Attracting the attention of several producers, she was put under contract at various studios where she posed for cheesecake and publicity...
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