Miles, Vera (1929–)
Miles, Vera (1929–)
American screen actress. Born Vera May Ralston, Aug 23, 1929, in Boise City, OK; m. Robert Miles, 1948 (div. 1954); m. Gordon Scott (actor), 1954 (div. 1959); m. Keith Larsen (actor), 1960 (div. 1971); m. Bob Jones, 1973; children: (1st m.) Deborah Miles (b. 1950), Kelley Miles (b. 1952, actress); (2nd m.) Michael Scott; (3rd m.) Erik Larsen.
Named Miss Kansas (1948); made film debut in Two Tickets to Broadway (1951); came to prominence in John Ford's The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1957); other films include Tarzan's Hidden Jungle, The FBI Story, Psycho, Back Street, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, A Tiger Walks, Those Calloways, Gentle Giant, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Psycho II, Brainwaves and Into the Night.
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