Virginia Leith, ‘The Brain That Wouldn’t Die’ Star, Dies at 94
She was not on the list.
Virginia Leith, the star of Stanley Kubrick’s first movie
“Fear and Desire,” has died at the age of 94.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Leith died at her home
in Palm Springs, California on Nov. 4 after a brief illness.
Kubrick’s 1953 film served as Leith’s acting debut, though
the director famously disavowed the work, at one point referring to it as a
“bumbling amateur film exercise.” Leith, whose character in the war film is
unnamed, appeared as a young girl killed by a soldier.
After her role in “Fear and Desire,” Leith signed as a
contract player with 20th Century Fox, going on to appear in “On the Threshold
of Space,” “Violent Saturday,” “A Kiss Before Dying” and “Toward the Unknown.”
She played the lead role in Joseph Green’s “The Brain That
Wouldn’t Die” as the wife of a mad scientist who devises a method to keep her severed
head alive after what should have been a fatal car accident. She dated actors Marlon Brando and Jeffrey Hunter.
Her TV credits include one-off parts on “The Millionaire,”
“Great Ghost Tales,” “Baretta” and “Starsky and Hutch.”
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1953 Fear and
Desire Young Girl
Here Come the Girls Chorus
Girl uncredited
1954 Black Widow Claire Amberly
1955 White Feather
Ann Magruder
Violent Saturday Linda
Sherman
1956 On the
Threshold of Space Pat Lange
A Kiss Before Dying Ellen
Kingship
Toward the Unknown Connie
Mitchell
The 20th Century-Fox Hour Irene
Bennett 1 episode
1958 Jane Wyman
Presents the Fireside Theatre Barbara
1 episode
The Millionaire Lil
Harrigan 1 episode
1959 Alcoa
Presents: One Step Beyond as
Sally Conroy 1 episode
1961 Great Ghost
Tales 1 episode
1962 The Brain
That Wouldn't Die Jan Compton
1977 Baretta Sally Locker 1
episode
Starsky and Hutch Margaret
Blaine 1 episode
First Love Mrs.
March
1983 Curtains Screamer
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