Rare and lovely vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in violet fountain pen in the 1950s. In good condition for its age. Sultry, smoky-voiced brunette beauty Virginia Leith abandoned a budding modeling career to accept a contract with 20th Century-Fox in 1953. After a small handful of less-than-stellar roles in Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire (1953), and mystery thrillers like Black Widow (1954), Violent Saturday (1955) and A Kiss Before Dying (1956), she attained cult status as the disembodied fiancée "Jan in the Pan" Compton in the cheapjack sci-fi film classic The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). She thereafter slipped into complete obscurity, and her autograph is little-seen in any format.