Celebrity Biographies
Virginia Leith
He starred in Stanley Kubrick’s first film, and participated in twenty-five other titles. Virginia Leith passed away at age 94 at her California home on November 4, 2019.
Born on October 15, 1925 in Cleveland (Ohio), Virginia Leith began her modeling career at a very young age. Stanley Kubrick , who photographed her for the cover of “Look” magazine, was so impressed by her photogenicity that he proposed her to lead the cast of Fear and Desire , his debut film, where four soldiers try to reunite with their battalion, during a indeterminate war. She embodied a civilian fishing in the area to which they tied to a tree. The film went unnoticed, received bad reviews and its negatives were supposed to be destroyed, although some copies survived.
She continued her career with titles such as Nunnally Johnson ‘s The Black Widow , Richard Fleischer ‘s Tragic Saturday , and Gerd Oswald ‘s Kiss Me Before You Die . Science fiction fans remember her for The Brain That Couldn’t Die , a cult film by Joseph Green.
In the 1960s, she married Canadian Donald Harron , also an actor in titles such as Anatomy of a Hospital , and decided to retire. After her divorce, she resumed her career, with appearances in series such as Starsky and Hutch and Police Woman .