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Biography: Vera Miles

Beauty contest winner Vera Ralston made a smattering of industrial films before beginning her Hollywood career in 1952. While making films at Republic studios, Ralston changed her name to avoid being confused with Republic's reigning queen Vera Hruba Ralston; "Miles" was the last name of her first husband. At first cast as a bland ingenue, she proved herself capable of conveying neurotic hysteria in The Charge at Feather River (1953), playing a white girl kidnapped by Indians who was violently resistant to being returned to her real family. She met her second husband, Gordon Scott, while filming Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1954). With her work in John Ford's The Searchers (1955), she graduated to big-budget productions. During the latter half of the 1950s, she was under contract to Alfred Hitchcock, who was impressed by the "still waters run deep" element of her performances. She played a delusional rape victim in "Revenge," the very first episode of TV's Alfred Hitchcock Presents; she was cast as Henry Fonda's beleaguered wife in Hitch's The Wrong Man (her final scene is a knockout!); and, of course, she was seen as the sister of the ill-fated Janet Leigh in Psycho, a role she flamboyantly reprised in the 1982 sequel Psycho 2. While she never quite attained full film stardom, Miles kept extremely busy in both theatrical releases and television. During the 1960s and 1970s, she was regarded as a "good luck charm" by TV producers: if she guest-starred in the pilot episode of a potential series, chances are that series would sell (among those sold were the aforementioned Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Asphalt Jungle, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, Court Martial, The Outer Limits, I Spy, Gentle Ben, Cannon and Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law). She continued to make occasional appearances until the 1995 feature Separate Lives, in which she costarred with James Belushi; afterward, she retired from acting. As of this writing, Vera Miles is still married to her fourth husband, sound engineer and mixer Bob Jones. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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In Search of America (1971)
Cast: Jeff Bridges
Tags: Road Movie Drama
Length: 75min
The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff...
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Kona Coast (1968)
Cast: Chips Rafferty Joan Blondell
Tags: Drama Adventure Melodrama Adventure Drama
Length: 93min
Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the...
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Molly and Lawless John (1972)
Tags: Western Modern Western
Length: 97min
After an outlaw (Sam Elliott) is brought to justice, he begins to work on the sheriff's wife (Vera Miles) and eventually gets her to help him escape from prison. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
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Hellfighters (1968)
Cast: John Wayne Jim Hutton
Tags: Romance Family Drama Action Docudrama
Length: 121min
Chance Buckman (John Wayne) heads a team of international trouble shooters who travel around the world to put out oil fires. The dangerous profession has taken a toll on the marriage between Chance and Madelyn (Vera Miles), who leaves when she can no...
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It Takes All Kinds (1969)
Cast: Robert Lansing Vera Miles Barry Sullivan
Tags: Crime Thriller Drama Crime
Length: 97min
In this drama, a sailor is blackmailed into stealing a valuable panel of stained glass. The trouble begins when the sailor gets into a fight with another and jumps ship in Sydney, Australia. Upon the docks he is knocked out. When he wakes up, he finds...
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The Wild Country (1971)
Cast: Ron Howard Jack Elam
Tags: Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 100min
Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved to what they thought would be a fully functional ranch in Wyoming. Instead they find a broken down ruin. In addition to having...
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Gentle Giant (1967)
Cast: Dennis Weaver Huntz Hall Clint Howard
Tags: Animal Picture Action Adventure Family
Length: 93min
The title character is a benign 7-foot-tall grizzly bear (perhaps all grizzlies are benign, but we're not about to get close enough to find out). Little Clint Howard befriends the bear, naming the beast Ben. Clint's wildlife-officer dad Dennis Weaver...
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Mission Batangas (1968)
Tags: Adventure Crime
Length: 100min
An America Air Force pilot (Dennis Weaver) tries to fight the Japanese as they invade the Philippines. Despite his efforts and the help of a jungle nurse (Vera Miles), the country is overrun by the enemy forces as the stronghold of Corregidor falls....
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The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
Cast: Sid Caesar
Tags: Horror Comedy Comedy Horror
Length: 100min
In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen. Not believing in poltergeists, the puzzled parents...
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Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
Cast: Lillian Gish Charlie Ruggles Kurt Russell Fred MacMurray Walt Disney
Tags: Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 135min
Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch,...
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