Vera Miles was born in Boise City, Oklahoma. A new biography tells how participating in pageants put her on a path to stardom ...
"Psycho" launched a thousand phobias of showers and dingy roadside motels when it premiered in 1960. Audiences ate up Alfred Hitchcock's proto-slasher, and the film went on to become the second ...
In her two films for Hitchcock, Ms. Miles delivered performances of rare credibility and subtlety: In “The Wrong Man” (1956), ...
Vera Miles was supposed to star in “Vertigo.” Hitchcock had spotted her in an impressive television performance and was, according to Christopher McKittrick, “positioning Ms. Miles as his favored ...