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 ...

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 ...

Vera Miles was supposed to star in “Vertigo.” Hitchcock had spotted her in an impressive television performance and was, according to Christopher McKittrick, “positioning Ms. Miles as his favored ...

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 ...