Vera Miles: Hitchcock's Potential Replacement For Grace Kelley

By | July 23, 2021

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Source: (Rotten Tomatoes).

Vera Miles was born Vera June Ralston in Boise City, Oklahoma on August 23, 1929. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948; she went on to become the third runner-up in the Miss America pageant. At the pageant, she was signed to a contract with RKO and went to Hollywood, where Howard Hughes sent her to acting classes. An employee of Hughes, Bob Miles, picked her up each morning to take her to class, and they began dating. Later that year, Bob Miles would become her first husband. 

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With Gordon Scott in Tarzan's Hidden Jungle. Source: (IMDb).

Marrying Tarzan

By 1952, she began getting better roles, and her first credited role came in The Rose Bowl Story (1952). Two years after landing the role, she divorced Bob Miles. In 1955, she was cast opposite Gordon Scott in Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle, where she played Tarzan’s love interest. She married Scott, her costar, in 1956, and she stayed married to him until 1960.