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Virginia Leith
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.918 |
Birthday | 1925-10-15 |
Place of Birth | Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
Also Known As | Cora Virginia Leith, ヴァージニア・リース, |
![Fear and Desire](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mj7CDh6d5nJDDmEhd0ft6s3L8CM.jpg)
1953
![Fear and Desire](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mj7CDh6d5nJDDmEhd0ft6s3L8CM.jpg)
Fear and Desire
5.5/479
After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come acr...
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Fear and Desire
![The Brain That Wouldn't Die](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/b5qf9urOMFXAKkxQcTacGy1bI8O.jpg)
1962
![The Brain That Wouldn't Die](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/b5qf9urOMFXAKkxQcTacGy1bI8O.jpg)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
4.6/118
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner...
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die
![Black Widow](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6u1ynJxGhqhKpFMvDmPk1OWQ5FW.jpg)
1954
![Black Widow](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6u1ynJxGhqhKpFMvDmPk1OWQ5FW.jpg)
Black Widow
6.3/45
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Black Widow
![Violent Saturday](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zZQmZgamK4lSA4rBz8dbkfoNhsw.jpg)
1955
![Violent Saturday](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zZQmZgamK4lSA4rBz8dbkfoNhsw.jpg)
Violent Saturday
6.7/62
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
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![A Kiss Before Dying](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uaTmtWGxiPStGEcMG5qn5eGBYh.jpg)
1956
![A Kiss Before Dying](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uaTmtWGxiPStGEcMG5qn5eGBYh.jpg)
A Kiss Before Dying
6.2/64
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
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A Kiss Before Dying
![Toward the Unknown](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/406rdQYfRBNjSyM4reTvC1PNpsp.jpg)
1956
![Toward the Unknown](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/406rdQYfRBNjSyM4reTvC1PNpsp.jpg)
Toward the Unknown
5.6/11
Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bon...
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![On the Threshold of Space](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bkqrgNlxdIAy1hDA7yT3824Ilml.jpg)
1956
![On the Threshold of Space](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bkqrgNlxdIAy1hDA7yT3824Ilml.jpg)
On the Threshold of Space
4/1
In the early stages of the space program, Capt. Jim Hollenbeck undergoes any experiment needed to ensure success in the new Air Force branch -- even t...
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![White Feather](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lFJZpnqAOrvVxbivn5IHkXUtDdG.jpg)
1955
![White Feather](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lFJZpnqAOrvVxbivn5IHkXUtDdG.jpg)
White Feather
6.6/11
The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surv...
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White Feather
![Hideouser and Hideouser](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fdG1LxFxuyyTZjNTKAvocgiGzvv.jpg)
2019
![Hideouser and Hideouser](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fdG1LxFxuyyTZjNTKAvocgiGzvv.jpg)
Hideouser and Hideouser
0/0
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![Battered](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/s0OiqoomfA3uOijn4S3OQSiQy0p.jpg)
1978
![Battered](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/s0OiqoomfA3uOijn4S3OQSiQy0p.jpg)
Battered
0/0
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their hus...
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![First Love](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7ofD1qLSGqWk1R4lHUsLuv4BrKA.jpg)
1977
![First Love](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7ofD1qLSGqWk1R4lHUsLuv4BrKA.jpg)
First Love
3/3
A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
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