A warm, reliable and likable lead of features and TV beginning in the 1950s, Vera Miles got a prominent... (Learn more)
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Vera Miles’s Milestones
| Worked as a model for a time after her beauty contest success | |
| 1948 | Won third place in the Miss America Pageant |
| 1951 | Film debut in "Two Tickets to Broadway" |
| 1952 | Played first female lead in films in the sports picture, "The Rose Bowl Story", a low-budgeter made by Monogram Pictures |
| 1955 | First worked with Alfred Hitchcock on an episode of the TV anthology series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" entitled "Revenge", which he also directed |
| 1955 | First worked with John Ford on an episode of the TV anthology series, "Screen Directors Playhouse" entitled "Rookie of the Year", which he directed |
| 1956 | Put under personal contract to Alfred Hitchcock; made a first film with him, "The Wrong Man", in which she starred opposite Henry Fonda |
| 1958 | Was cast in Hitchcock's "Vertigo" but had to withdraw due to pregnancy |
| 1959 | First non-US feature film, the British-made "Beyond This Place" (US release title "Web of Evidence"), in which she co-starred opposite Van Johnson |
| 1959 - 1960 | Was a panel regular on the TV quiz show, "Stump the Stars" |
| 1960 | Last feature with Hitchcock, "Psycho" |
| 1962 | Second and last feature directed by Ford, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" |
| 1964 | First TV-movie, "The Hanged Man" |
| 1964 | Played female lead in "A Tiger Walks", the first of six Disney films she made over the next eight years, and the first of three directed by Norman Tokar; starred opposite Brian Keith in the first two films |
| 1964 | Starred with Barbara Rush, David McCallum and Cedric Hardwicke in "The Forms of Things Unknown", an episode of the cult sci-fi series, "The Outer Limits", also intended as a pilot for a spinoff program, "The Unknown"; the show's producers became embroiled in conflict with ABC and the new series never materialized |
| 1967 | Played female lead of Ellen Wedloe in the TV pilot for the CBS adventure series, "Gentle Ben", opposite Dennis Weaver; role was taken by Beth Brickell, however, when it became a series |
| 1974 | Last of six films for Walt Disney in which she had the female lead, "The Castaway Cowby", co-starring James Garner |
| 1980 | First TV miniseries, "Roughnecks" |
| 1989 | Played a leading role in the stage play, "The Immigrant: A Hamilton County Album", presented at the LaMirada Civic Theater in California |
| 1991 | Played role of Nancy Landon on several episodes of the long-running CBS mystery series, "Murder, She Wrote" |
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