Vera Ralston
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Vera Ralston was a Czech and American figure skater and actress. She worked as an actress during the 1940s and 1950s.
Vera Ralston in 1942
John Wayne and Vera Ralston in Dakota (1945)
Herbert J. Yates
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Herbert John Yates, a Hollywood mini-mogul, was the founder and President of Republic Pictures. With his contract, he had launched the film careers of such Western stars as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and
Vera Ralston
…with Fred MacMurray (1953). She retired from films in 1958. Reportedly only 2 of her 20 films made money. In 1952, Ralston married Republic studio head Herbert Yates. Yates was nearly 40 years her senior, and reportedly left his wife, with whom he had two grown children, to be with Ralston. Yates used his position…
Yates, c. 1940s