Virginia Leith
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Virginia Leith

Oct 15, 1925 - Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Virginia Leith (October 15, 1925 - November 4, 2019) was an American film and television actress.

Leith starred in a few films, with her most productive period coming in the 1950s. Her debut in 1953 was also the first film directed by Stanley Kubrick, a self-financed art house film, Fear and Desire. She signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox in 1954 and had leading roles in films such as On the Threshold of Space, Toward the Unknown, Violent Saturday and opposite Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward in the crime drama A Kiss Before Dying.

She left show business following her 1960 marriage to actor Donald Harron. After her divorce from Harron, in the 1970s Leith resumed her career and appeared in a few films and on television shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Barnaby Jones, and Baretta. She left the screen again in the early 1980s. Her most recognizable role may have been that of a decapitated woman whose head is kept alive in The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

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Media
Movie1953Fear and DesireThe Girl
Movie1962The Brain That Wouldn't DieJan Compton
Movie1954Black WidowClaire Amberly
Movie1955Violent SaturdayLinda Sherman
Movie1978Battered
Movie1956A Kiss Before DyingEllen Kingship
Movie1956Toward the UnknownConnie Mitchell
Movie1956On the Threshold of SpacePat Lange
Movie1977First LoveAnn March (uncredited)
Movie1955White FeatherAnn Magruder
Movie2019Hideouser and HideouserWaitress (voice)
TV Show1959One Step BeyondSally Conroy / Karen Wharton1
TV Show1980CondominiumCarolyn Garver2

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