EPISODE 50 - “Birthday Tribute to Classic Film star Vera Miles” - 08/26/2024

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After placing 3rd runner up to Miss America in 1948 as Miss Kansas, VERA MILES soon embarked on a long and illustrious career in Hollywood and was soon working with great directors like ALFRED HITCHCOCK (“Psycho” and “The Wrong Man”) and JOHN FORD (“The Searchers” and “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”). This week, we pay tribute to Miles as she turns 95 on August 23rd. Listen as we celebrate this beautiful, talented, and somewhat underrated star. 

SHOW NOTES: 

Sources:

Hitchcock’s Heroines (2018), by Caroline Young;

Women In The Films of John Ford (2014), by David Mevel;

“Vera Miles: Country Girl in Hollywood,” May 13, 1956, by J.D. Spiro, Los Angeles, Times;

“Vera Miles: She’s Alfred Hitchcock’s Newest Acting Find,” January 13, 1957, Parade Magazine;

“Vera Miles Says: I’m Glad I Was Poor,” May 1959, by Amy Francis, Screenland Magazine;

“Vera Miles: Official Biography,” September 1961, Paramount Pictures;

“The Loser Who Became A Star,” May 15, 1973, by Earl Wilson, The New York Post;

“Fighting Trim Vera Miles Still A Doer,” February 20, 1981, by Mark Hemeter, The Times-Picayne (New Orleans);

“Psycho Actress Defends Hitchcock,” June 25, 1983, by Richard Freedman, The Spokesman-Review, Newhouse News Service;

“Vera Miles: Hollywood Walk of Fame,” June 29, 2010, by Carina MacKenzie, Los Angeles Times;

TCM.com;

IMDBPro.com;

Wikipedia.com;

Movies Mentioned: 

For Men Only (1952), starring Paul Henried;

The Rose Bowl Story (1952), starring Marshall Thompson;

The Charge At Feather River (1953), starring Guy Madison and Helen Westcott;

Pride of the Blue Grass (1954), starring Lloyd Bridges;

Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle (1955), starring Gordon Scott;

Wichita (1955), starring Joel McCrea;

The Searchers (1956), starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter;

The Wrong Man (1956), starring Henry Fonda;

Beau James (1957), starring Bob Hope;

Web Of Evidence (1959), starring Van Johnson;

The FBI Story (1959), starring James Stewart;

A Touch Of Larceny (1960), starring James Mason and George Sanders;

5 Banded Women (1960), starring Jeanne Moreau;

Psycho (1960), starring Anthony Perkins, Janey Leigh, and John Gavin; 

Back Street (1961), starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin;

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), starring John Wayne and James Stewart;

A Tiger Walks (1964), starring Brian Keith;

Those Calloways (1965), starring Brian Keith, Brandon De Wilde, and Linda Evans;

Follow Me Boys! (1966), starring Fred MacMurray;

The Spirit Is Willing (1967), starring Sid Caesar;

Gentle Giant (1967), starring Dennis Weaver and Ralph Meeker;

Hellfighters (1968), starring John Wayne and Katharine Ross;

The Wild Country (1970), starring Steve Forrest;

One Little Indian (1973), starring James Garner;

The Castaway Cowboy (1974), starring James Garner;

Run For The Roses (1977), starring Stuart Whitman;

Smash Up On Interstate 5 (1976), starring Robert Conrad, Buddy Ebson, Sue Lyon, Terry Moore, and Tommy Lee Jones;

Psycho II (1983), starring Anthony Perkins;

The Initiation (1984), starring Clu Galugar and Daphne Zuniga;

Separate Lives (1995), starring Linda Hamilton and Jim Belushi;

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