Vera Miles

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Name:	Vera Miles
Status	Alive
Age:	95 (August 23, 1929)
IMDB:	IMDb
TMDB:	TMDB
Smoking Status:	Unknown
Type of Celebrity:	Actor
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TMDB Popularity	15.901
Biography (TMDB):	Vera June Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress. Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his "new Grace Kelly", paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock cast Miles in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960), as did Ford when he cast her opposite John Wayne and James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), She also starred in such films as Beau James (1957) opposite Bob Hope, The FBI Story (1959) opposite Stewart, Back Street (1961) opposite Susan Hayward and John Gavin and Sergeant Ryker (1968) opposite Lee Marvin, as well as showing her consistently remarkable and versatile talent on dozens of popular television movies and series including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), Twilight Zone (1959), The Outer Limits (1963), The Fugitive (1963), My Three Sons (1960), Bonanza (1959), "Columbo" and Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 1983, she reprised her role as "Lila Crane" in the film sequel Psycho II (1983), starring Anthony Perkins. Although, too often, the stunningly beautiful Miles' gifts were underutilized, before her retirement in 1995, hers was a most intriguing and enduring Hollywood career.

Profile Picture

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Miles and especially Crawford are very good in this one. Miles leaves behind a cigarette which smolders in Crawford's face for almost a minute. Donnelly also has a light-up and inhale.

Back Street

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Hayward smokes throught the movie, some decent, including one late in the movie wearing gloves (for those interested), filmed at a distance. Miles has at least one scene that I can remember, while talking on the telephone.

BrainWaves

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The beautiful [Wahl], a former Penthouse Pet of the Month, has 3 drags and one large exhale of what appears to be uninhaled smoke. The elderly Miles has an exhale outside toward the end of the movie.

Hellfighters

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[Ross smokes] several times... At one point, her mother in the movie tells her she shouldn't smoke so much. It is a scene in which she is golfing with her family, about halfway through the film.

Psycho

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One exhale, but her cigarette hand never enters the frame

Psycho II

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Has one light-up scene in the Bates Motel office, but sadly does not have anymore drags on it for the remainder of the scene.

Candids

Photoshoots

Television

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