Virginia Weidler

Born: 1927-03-21

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Anna Adelheid Weidler (March 21, 1927 – July 1, 1968) was an American child actress, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. She made her first film appearance in 1931. Her first credited role was in 1934. Virginia made a big impression on audiences as a little girl who would "hold my breath 'til I am black in the face" to get her way. For the next several years, she would appear in many memorable films. Despite being under contract to Paramount, just as many of her roles of the period took place while on loan to RKO-Radio Pictures. When Paramount did not extend her contract, she was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1938. Her film career ended in 1943. At her retirement from the screen at age 16, she had appeared in more than forty films, and had acted with some of the biggest stars of the day. After her retirement, Weidler gave no interviews for the remainder of her life. She died of a heart attack at age 41 on July 1, 1968.


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The Philadelphia Story

as Dinah Lord
Released: 1940-12-05

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned...

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The Women

as Little Mary
Released: 1939-09-01

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

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Gold Rush Maisie

as Jubilee 'Jubie' Davis
Released: 1940-07-26

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet...

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All This, and Heaven Too

as Louise
Released: 1940-07-05

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the...

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Peter Ibbetson

as Mimsey
Released: 1935-11-07

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to...

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Scandal Street

as Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
Released: 1938-02-11

Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American...

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Barnacle Bill

as Virginia Johansen
Released: 1941-04-07

A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.

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Out West with the Hardys

as Jake Holt
Released: 1938-11-25

Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his...

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Young Tom Edison

as Tannie Edison
Released: 1940-03-15

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and...

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Too Hot to Handle

as Hulda
Released: 1938-09-16

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter,...

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Men with Wings

as Young Peggy Ranson
Released: 1938-07-16

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,...

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Babes on Broadway

as Jo Conway
Released: 1941-12-31

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them...

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Mother Carey's Chickens

as Lally Joy Popham
Released: 1938-07-29

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.

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Laddie

as Little Sister
Released: 1935-03-18

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.

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Souls at Sea

as Tina
Released: 1937-09-03

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave...

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Maid of Salem

as Nabby
Released: 1937-02-12

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes...

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I'll Wait for You

as Lizzie Miller
Released: 1941-05-16

A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.

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The Big Broadcast of 1936

as Little Girl in Hospital
Released: 1935-09-20

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of...

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The Affairs of Martha

as Miranda Sommerfield
Released: 1942-06-21

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their...

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Fixer Dugan

as Ethel "Terry" O'Connell
Released: 1939-04-21

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and...

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Surrender

as Little Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1931-12-06

Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the...

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Love Is a Headache

as Jake O'Toole
Released: 1938-01-14

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some...

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The Great Man Votes

as Joan
Released: 1939-01-13

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from...

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Best Foot Forward

as Helen Schlesinger
Released: 1943-10-08

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball...

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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

as Patricia Lanyard
Released: 1939-01-27

Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

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Born to Sing

as Patsy Eastman
Released: 1942-02-18

A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real...

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Girl of the Ozarks

as Edie Moseley
Released: 1936-06-12

A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to...

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This Time for Keeps

as Harriett Bryant
Released: 1942-03-01

A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.

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The Youngest Profession

as Joan Lyons
Released: 1943-02-26

Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping...

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Henry Goes Arizona

as Molly Cullison
Released: 1939-12-08

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

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The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as Luck
Released: 1937-04-16

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

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Bad Little Angel

as Patricia Victoria Sanderson
Released: 1939-10-27

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

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Long Lost Father

as Girl at Pier
Released: 1934-01-19

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had...

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The Under-Pup

as Janet Cooper
Released: 1939-08-31

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from...

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The Big Broadcast of 1937

as Flowergirl
Released: 1936-10-05

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of...

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Timothy's Quest

as Samantha Tarbox
Released: 1936-01-31

Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by...

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Keeping Company

as Harriet Thomas
Released: 1940-12-27

Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes...

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Freckles

as Laurie Lou Duncan
Released: 1935-09-20

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

as Europena Wiggs
Released: 1934-10-28

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew,...

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Outside These Walls

as Ellen Sparling
Released: 1939-05-04

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper....

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The Rookie Cop

as Nicey
Released: 1939-04-28

A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police...

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