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Vera Miles (b. August 23, 1929) is a United
States|American actor|actress.  

She began her career as a beauty queen and, as a
result, earned a minor part in Two Tickets to
Broadway (1951). She posed for cheesecake photos,
and married her leading man from Tarzan's Hidden
Jungle (1955), Gordon Scott (they later split).
Then John Ford cast her as Jeffrey Hunter's
spirited love interest in The Searchers
(movie)|The Searchers (1956), and her career took
a dramatic turn upward. A year later, she played
Henry Fonda's beleaguered wife in Alfred
Hitchcock|Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1957).

Pregnancy cost her the lead in Vertigo
(movie)|Vertigo but Hitchcock did cast her as
Janet Leigh's sister Lila Crane in Psycho (1960),
in which her character discovers the truth about
Norman Bates' mother. Following another stint for
Ford in 1962's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
she got her first parts at the Disney studio, in A
Tiger Walks (1964) and Those Calloways (1965). She
continued to play roles in Disney into the 1970s.
She did television series work for a time, then in
1983 she reprised her most famous role in Psycho
II, with her character Lila vociferously
protesting the proposed parole of killer Norman
Bates (played, as in the original, by Anthony
Perkins).

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