โ€‹From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Virginia Leith

Virginia Leith

Acting Born October 15, 1925 – Died November 4, 2019 Cleveland, Ohio, USA

โ€‹From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Known For

One Step Beyond poster

One Step Beyond

Sally Conroy / Karen Wharton
The Brain That Wouldn't Die poster

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Jan Compton
White Feather poster

White Feather

Ann Magruder
Violent Saturday poster

Violent Saturday

Linda Sherman
Fear and Desire poster

Fear and Desire

The Girl
Condominium poster

Condominium

Carolyn Garver
A Kiss Before Dying poster

A Kiss Before Dying

Ellen Kingship
Black Widow poster

Black Widow

Claire Amberly
Toward the Unknown poster

Toward the Unknown

Connie Mitchell
On the Threshold of Space poster

On the Threshold of Space

Pat Lange
First Love poster

First Love

Ann March (uncredited)
Battered poster

Battered