Vera Miles

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Vera Miles (born August 23, 1929 or 1930) is an American actress.<p>Miles was born Vera May Ralston in Boise City, Oklahoma to Burnice (née Wyrick) and Thomas Ralston. She grew up in Pratt and in Wichita, Kansas where, as a teenager, she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High School. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948.<p>Her success as a beauty queen prompted her move to Los Angeles where, in 1950, she soon began landing small roles in film and television including a minor part in as a chorus girl in Two Tickets to Broadway (1951), a musical starring Janet Leigh, with whom Miles would go on to co-star nine years later in Psycho for director Alfred Hitchcock. Attracting the attention of several producers, she was put under contract at various studios where she posed for cheesecake and publicity photographs, as was standard procedure for most up-and-coming Hollywood starlets of the era. Under contract starlet to Warner Bros., she was cast in...