This is a request by @MightyMorphinPower4 for Vera Miles as Lila Crane from Alfred Hitchcock's Pyscho in a classic chair tie. If only this was the most sisnster thing happening at the Bates Motel.
Lila Loomis (née Crane) was Marion Crane's sister. She worked as a buyer for the Music Makers Music Store. She later campaigned against the release of Norman Bates, her sister's murderer.
When Marion went missing with $40,000 that she was to have deposited in the bank for George Lowery, Lila guessed that she may have gone to Fairvale to be with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis. Lila went to see Sam who had not seen Marion. She and Sam then pursued their own investigation with the help of Milton Arbogast.
Lila and Sam checked into the Bates Motel posing as husband and wife and discovered evidence that Marion had stayed there. Lila then snuck into the Bates house and discovered the corpse of Norma Bates. Her snooping had not gone unnoticed, as she was then attacked by Norman, who was in a dress and had earlier knocked out Sam in a fight. However, Lila was saved by Sam, who recovered and entered the basement of the Bates house in the nick of time, restraining Norman.
She was at the police station when Dr. Fred Richman explained how Norman Bates' psyche had been split into two personalities.
Sometime later, Lila married Sam Loomis and they had a daughter they named Mary in honor of Marion. Lila followed the story of Norman Bates' rehabilitation and when he was released 22 years after Marion's murder, she protested. She and her daughter then began a quest to drive Norman mad once again.
Lila and Mary took turns calling Norman, pretending to be his mother. They also dressed up as Norma Bates and left notes for Norman so that he would question his sanity. When Lila planned to dress up once more, she was met by Emma Spool inside the Mother costume in the fruit cellar of the Bates House where more than 20 years ago, she first met "Mother".
At the sight of Mother, Lila screamed in fear for her life, but Emma in an attempt to silence her, stabbed Lila through the mouth, going out the back of her throat, slowly but surely killing her. During Norman and Mary's altercation, Norman accidentally revealed Lila's body under a pile of coal.
Vera Miles was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, she attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his "new Grace Kelly", paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock cast Miles in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960), as did Ford when he cast her opposite John Wayne and James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), She also starred in such films as Beau James (1957) opposite Bob Hope, The FBI Story (1959) opposite Stewart, Back Street (1961) opposite Susan Hayward and John Gavin and Sergeant Ryker (1968) opposite Lee Marvin, as well as showing her consistently remarkable and versatile talent on dozens of popular television movies and series including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), The Twilight Zone (1959), The Outer Limits (1963), The Fugitive (1963), My Three Sons (1960), Bonanza (1959), Columbo (1971) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 1983, she reprised her role as "Lila Crane" in the film sequel Pyscho II (1983), starring Anthony Perkins. Although, too often, the stunningly beautiful Miles' gifts were underutilized, before her retirement in 1995, hers was a most intriguing and enduring Hollywood career.
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