{"id":3675,"date":"2024-10-15T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2024-12-27T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T13:53:49","slug":"happy-birthday-virginia-leith-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/10\/happy-birthday-virginia-leith-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF Alumna Virginia Leith!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">October 15, 1925 \u2013 November 4, 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in Cleveland, Ohio; Virginia Leith was an American film and television actress. Ms. Leith enjoyed leading roles in films such as Violent Saturday (1955), Toward the Unknown (1956), On the Threshold of Space (1956), and A Kiss Before Dying (1956) \u2013 but it is her starring role as Jan Compton,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a decapitated woman whose head is kept alive, in the 1962 CDF classic horror sci-fi \u2013 THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN\u2019T DIE!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-503\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Virginia-Leith_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Virginia Leith photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Virginia-Leith_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Virginia-Leith_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Virginia-Leith_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Virginia-Leith_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Virginia-Leith_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 15, 1925 \u2013 November 4, 2019 Born in Cleveland, Ohio; Virginia Leith was an American film and television actress. Ms. Leith enjoyed leading roles in films such as Violent Saturday (1955), Toward the Unknown (1956), On the Threshold of Space (1956), and A Kiss Before Dying (1956) \u2013 but it is her starring role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,23,15,7,5,6,32,22,20],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actress","tag-brainthatwouldntdie","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-happybirthday","tag-janinthepan","tag-virginialeith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Virginia-Leith_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}