Hitchcock Chronology: Vera Miles

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Vera Miles...

January

2nd - Actress Vera Miles begins a 5 year, 3 picture exclusive contract to Hitchcock.^[1]
Hitchcock, Henry Fonda and Vera Miles travel to Florida to meet the Balestrero family, to help prepare the actors for The Wrong Man. ^[2]

March

8th - Hitchcock meets Vera Miles at Newart Airport.^[3]
26th - Filming commences on The Wrong Man, starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles.^[4]

April

15th - Filming on The Wrong Man is halted to allow Vera Miles to marry Tarzan actor Gordon Scott.^[5]

October

With plans to film Flamingo Feather abandoned, Hitchcock turns his attention to the French novel D'Entre Les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, which will eventually be filmed as Vertigo. Maxwell Anderson is charged with adapting the book, and James Stewart and Vera Miles are expected to star.^[6]

March

Actress Vera Miles telephones Herbert Coleman towards the end of March to inform him that she is pregnant. If she is still to play the role of Madeleine/Judy in Vertigo, the start date would need to be delayed.^[7]

April

Hitchcock, Lew Wasserman, Herman Citron and James Stewart meet at the end of April to discuss who should play the role of Madeleine/Judy in Vertigo. Wasserman favours rising star Kim Novak instead of the pregnant Vera Miles.^[8]

November

11th - Principal photography begins on Psycho, starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam.^[9]

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