Tracking Vera Miles: Clarifying a Golden Age Hollywood Star’s True Birth Year

I’ve been fortunate enough to do many interviews and film screenings followed by Q&As about my book, Vera Miles: The Hitchcock Blonde Who Got Away, since its publication in March 2025 by University Press of Kentucky. One aspect of Miles’s story that I did not expect to receive so much feedback about was regarding her birth year, though understandably so, because sources all over the internet inconsistently cite her birth year as 1929 or 1930. I thought I had provided a sufficient explanation in the first chapter of my book as to why Miles was born on August 23, 1930. In this guest post for Classic Movie Hub, I examine the documentation for Miles’ true birth year.