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Vera Ralston: Skated Through Life

Vera Ralston: Skated Through Life

Today, a smattering of applause for classic cinema’s second favorite ice skating movie star, Vera Ralston (Věra Helena Hrubá, ca. 1920-2003) The first is of course Sonja Henie. So don’t mix her up with her — or with Esther Ralston, Jobyna Ralston, Vera-Ellen, Vera Zorina or Vera Vague. Vera Ralston was a Czech figure skater who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Hitler gobbled up her country…

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[12 July 1919] Vera Ralston (born Věra Helena Hrubá) a Czech figure skater and actress is born in Prague Czechoslovakia (d. 2003). She starred with Erich von Stroheim in Storm Over Lisbon with Fred MacMurray in Fair Wind to Java and with John Wayne in Dakota and The Fighting Kentuckian.