Vera Ralston (born Věra Helena Hrubá; July 12, 1919[1][2] or 1920[3][4] or 1921[5] or 1923[4][6]  – February 9, 2003) was a Czech figure skater and actress.

Ralston was born Věra Helena Hrubá in Prague to a Catholic family with a home on the Berounka River.

[citation needed] Ralston moved to Hollywood with her mother and signed a contract in 1943 with Republic Pictures.

Among the 26 films Ralston starred in were Storm Over Lisbon with Erich von Stroheim (1944), Dakota (1945) with John Wayne, I, Jane Doe (1947) The Flame,(1948) with John Carroll and Ruth Hussey, The Fighting Kentuckian, also with Wayne (1949), A Perilous Journey with David Brian and Scott Brady (1953), and Fair Wind to Java with Fred MacMurray (1953).

[12] Yates died in 1966, leaving half of his estate ($8 million) to Ralston;[13] she suffered a nervous breakdown shortly thereafter.

Eventually, she remarried a businessman 11 years her junior and lived quietly in southern California.