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Virginia Leith is a Actor American born on 15 october 1925 at Cleveland (USA)
Virginia Leith (born October 15, 1932, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film and television actress.
Leith starred in a few films, with her most productive period coming in the 1950s. 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 Herron, in the 1970s Leith renewed 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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Virginia Leith
Leith starred in a few films, with her most productive period coming in the 1950s. 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 Herron, in the 1970s Leith renewed 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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She was involved with actor Jeffrey Hunter during his divorce in 1955. She dated actor Marlon Brando in 1956.Usually with
Filmography of Virginia Leith (9 films)
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First Love (1977)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Susan Dey, William Katt, John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, Robert Loggia, Virginia Leith
Roles Ann March (uncredited)
Rating58%
Elgin (Katt) is a college student who spends much of his time studying literature and concentrating on his physical fitness by playing solitary soccer. One day, he overhears his friend David making love next door. He then hears David's girlfriend pounding on the door, demanding to know who's in his room with him. Shelly (D'Angelo) comes into Elgin's room wearing only a towel, implying she was the woman with David just a moment ago. Shelly says she will only be there for a short time until David finishes making love with his girlfriend; but it takes a lot longer. David thanks Elgin by setting him up with Shelly.
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Arny Freeman, Sammy Petrillo
Roles Jan Compton
Rating45%
Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) is a successful surgeon who has just saved a patient pronounced dead in the emergency room—a patient of his father (Bruce Brighton)—with an unorthodox surgical method. After the younger Cortner and his beautiful fiancée Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) are involved in a fiery car accident that decapitates Jan, Cortner collects her severed head and rushes it to his home basement laboratory, where he revives it and manages to keep it alive in a liquid-filled tray.
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
, 1h34Directed by Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, Mary Astor, George Macready
Roles Ellen Kingship
Rating66%
Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is an ambitious student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Joanne Woodward) purely for her father's mining fortune. When he discovers that Dorothy is pregnant with his child, he realizes she is quite likely to be disinherited by her wealthy family. He assures Dorothy that he'll take care of her, yet he hesitates when Dorothy insists on marrying. Bud then murders Dorothy and stages it in a way that it appears to be a suicide. He then reaches out to her sister Ellen (Virginia Leith) with the hopes of marrying her in order to ingratiate himself with her father. After a couple of months Ellen finds evidence to question the suicide verdict, and then discovers that Bud knew Dorothy. Ellen struggles to avenge her sister and save her own life.
On the Threshold of Space (1956)
, 1h38Directed by Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Guy Madison, Virginia Leith, John Hodiak, Dean Jagger, Warren Stevens, Martin Milner
Roles Pat Lange
Rating64%
Much of the plot depicts the testing of downward firing ejection seats from B-47 Stratojet bombers that were conducted at Eglin AFB, Florida, initially between 7 October and 21 October 1953, when nine tests were conducted of the seat from a B-47 over Eglin's water ranges over the Gulf of Mexico, by the Air Proving Ground, at an altitude of 10,000 feet and various speeds. A second series of tests was also conducted beginning 8 July 1954 after refinements to the system. These tests were recreated in the film, shot at Eglin in 1955, with a different Stratojet from the one in the actual missions.
Toward the Unknown (1956)
, 1h55Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors William Holden, Virginia Leith, Lloyd Nolan, Charles McGraw, Murray Hamilton, Paul Fix
Roles Connie Mitchell
Rating64%
USAF Major Lincoln Bond (William Holden) was captured during the Korean War and subjected to torture, finally "cracking" after 14 months and signing a "confession" used for propaganda. Upon his release, he took a year to recover from the ordeal before showing up at the Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, hoping to return to work as a test pilot. His old buddy, Colonel McKee (Charles McGraw), tries his best for him, but the base commander, Brigadier General Banner (Lloyd Nolan), turns him down because he cannot trust him to be stable. A complication is that the general's secretary and love interest, Connie Mitchell (Virginia Leith), is an old flame. Bond presses for a job and accepts the general's offer of routine flying in support. Banner is a hands-on leader, taking the most dangerous assignments himself.
Violent Saturday (1955)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan
Roles Linda Sherman
Rating68%
Harper (Stephen McNally) is a bank robber posing as a traveling salesman. He arrives in town, soon to be joined by sadistic benzedrine addict Dill (Lee Marvin) and bookish Chapman (J. Carrol Naish).
White Feather (1955)
, 1h42Directed by Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Robert Wagner, John Lund, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Noah Beery, Jr, Eduard Franz
Roles Ann Magruder
Rating63%
Un agent du Gouvernement a pour mission d'établir des Indiens Cheyennes sur des territoires du Wyoming définis par un traité de paix que certains tentent de remettre en cause. La mission est d'autant plus menacée que cet officier tombe amoureux de la fille du chef Indien, ce qui n'est pas pour plaire à son frère Little Dog…
Black Widow (1954)
, 1h35Directed by Nunnally Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors Van Heflin, Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Otto Kruger, Peggy Ann Garner
Roles Claire Amberly
Rating66%
Peter Denver (Van Heflin) is a renowned Broadway producer attending a party—hosted by the viciously haughty and celebrated actress Carlotta "Lottie" Marin (Ginger Rogers) and her quiet husband Brian Mullen (Reginald Gardiner)—when he meets Nancy "Nanny" Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner). Ordway is a seemingly naïve, 20-year-old, aspiring writer, who hopes to make it big in New York. She convinces a reluctant Denver to let her use his apartment to work during the day, while his wife, Iris (Gene Tierney), also a famous actress, is away, but with her permission. After the Denvers return from the airport and find Nancy hanging dead in their bathroom, a variety of people Ordway has recently met in New York begin to reveal deeper and darker connections with her. Lt. Bruce (George Raft), the detective assigned to the case, soon discovers that this apparent suicide was in fact a homicide and believes that Denver, quickly suspected of having an affair with Ordway, is the murderer. Denver evades arrest and seeks clues to discover the real murderer; the case becomes cluttered when he and Lt. Bruce independently realize that Ordway's dealings in New York have not been as innocent as her superficial personality.
Fear and Desire (1953)
, 1h2Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Adventure, Historical
Actors Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Virginia Leith
Roles The Girl
Rating53%
Fear and Desire opens with an off-screen narration by actor David Allen who tells the audience: