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Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1929) is an American retired actress. She is known for appearing in John Ford 's Western films The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and for playing Lila Crane in Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho (1960) and Richard Franklin 's sequel Psycho II (1983).
The Wrong Man is a 1956 American docudrama film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles.The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson [2] [3] and in the magazine article "A Case of Identity", which was published in Life magazine in ...
Director Alfred Hitchcock was working on his next film, Vertigo (1958), when his leading actress, Vera Miles, became pregnant and had to withdraw from the complex role of Judy Barton. [25] Hitchcock approached Harry Cohn to offer Novak the female lead without even requesting a screen test.
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam.
Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock attended the Cannes Film Festival together in 1963. Getty Images Hedren ascended to stardom after scoring lead roles in Hitchcock's "The Birds" and "Marnie."
In the 1950s and 1960s, he performed on the stage and a few TV roles. He starred in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour alongside Vera Miles and John Carradine (episode "Death Scene"). He garnered a Golden Globe Award for Best Male Newcomer for the film, The Pad (and How to Use It) (1966). [1]
Psycho II is a 1983 American psychological slasher film directed by Richard Franklin, written by Tom Holland, and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia, and Meg Tilly. It is the first sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho and the second film in the Psycho franchise.
Leigh receiving instructions from Alfred Hitchcock to film the shower scene in Psycho (1960) Also in 1960, Leigh was cast in her most iconic role as the morally conflicted murder victim Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, co-starring with John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Anthony Perkins, and released by Universal. [55]