Vera Miles

She did television series work for a time, then in 1983 she reprised her most famous role in Psycho II, vociferously protesting the proposed parole of killer Norman Bates (played, as in the original, by Anthony Perkins). It was only after her death that this was revealed to have been a fabrication. She continued to play roles in Disney into the 1970s. Throughout her life, Oberon maintained that she had been born in Tasmania, Australia. 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 has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard. Pregnancy cost her the lead in Vertigo but Hitchcock did cast her as Janet Leigh's sister in Psycho (1960), in which her character discovers the truth about Norman Bates' mother. She was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

A year later, she played Henry Fonda's beleaguered wife in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1957). She married twice more, to Italian-born Mexican industrialist Bruno Pagliai (two adopted children) and Dutch actor Robert Wolders, before her retirement to Malibu, California, where she died after suffering a stroke. Then John Ford cast her as Jeffrey Hunter's spirited love interest in The Searchers (1956), and her career took a dramatic turn upward. Merle Oberon divorced Sir Alexander Korda in 1945, to marry cinematographer Lucien Ballard. She posed for cheesecake photos, and married her leading man from Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955), Gordon Scott (they later split). During her time as a film star, Oberon went to great lengths to disguise her mixed-race background and when her dark-skinned mother moved in with her in Hollywood, she masqueraded as Oberon's maid. She began her career as a beauty queen and, as a result, earned a minor part in Two Tickets to Broadway (1951). She went on to appear as Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1939), as George Sand in A Song to Remember (1945), and as Empress Josephine in Désirée (1954).

August 23, 1929) is a American actress. Merle Oberon was scarred for life, but skilled lighting technicians prevented her injuries being spotted by cinema audiences. Vera Miles (b. She was to star in Korda's film of I, Claudius (1937) as Messalina, but a serious car accident resulted in filming being abandoned. She received her only Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for The Dark Angel (1935). Oberon's career went on to greater heights partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to director Alexander Korda, who had persuaded her to take the name under which she became famous.

In 1934, she played the female lead in The Scarlet Pimpernel, opposite Leslie Howard. Her first major film role was as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Initially she worked as a club hostess under the name Queenie O'Brien and played in minor and unbilled rolls in various films. Born in Bombay, India to an Anglo-Irish father and an Anglo-Sinhalese mother, Constance Selby, who gave birth to Merle at the age of 15 and allowed her to be raised as her sister, Merle came to England for the first time in 1928.

Merle Oberon (February 19, 1911 - November 23, 1979), born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was a film actress, known for her sultry looks.