- Born
- Died
- Birth nameFrances Martinson
- Nicknames
- Mary Frances Miles
- Frances Martin
- Frances Miles was born on March 25, 1907 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress. She died on February 20, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Her father was a former chief of the Minneapolis (MN) Police Dept.
- In 1933 she was involved in a notorious murder case in which movie cowboy Tom Bay was shot and killed by his girlfriend, Alta Lessert, in an argument about his seeing another woman (not Miles). She testified in court that she saw Bay kiss Lessert goodbye, then she pulled out a gun and shot him several times, killing him. Lessert then turned the gun on herself and shot herself twice, but survived.
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