Vera Miles was poised to be the next Grace Kelly – the glamorous Hitchcock blonde who went on to marry a prince. It never happened, and she preferred it that way. The "Psycho" actress, now 95 ...

Not to be proactive, as Donald Spoto was, signifies a missed opportunity, even though such aggressiveness may excite hostility — even from Vera Miles herself. Mr. McKittrick quotes Rebecca McCallum, ...

In her two films for Hitchcock, Ms. Miles delivered performances of rare credibility and subtlety: In “The Wrong Man” (1956), she played a woman whose mental state is ravaged by false ...

T he acting collaboration between John Wayne and Vera Miles spanned five movies released between 1955 and 1968, but two classic Westerns stand out above the rest. John Ford’s 1956 movie The ...

A mong the many actresses to have worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Vera Miles lacked the startling beauty of Grace Kelly, the mystique of Ingrid Bergman or the capacity for shrieking of Janet Leigh ...