Virginia Weidler

Virginia Weidler

Born: March 21, 1927
Died: July 1, 1968
in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA
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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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Peeks at Hollywood
Title: Peeks at Hollywood
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
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Best Foot Forward
Title: Best Foot Forward
Character: Helen Schlesinger
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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The Youngest Profession
Title: The Youngest Profession
Character: Joan Lyons
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
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The Affairs of Martha
Title: The Affairs of Martha
Character: Miranda Sommerfield
Released: June 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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This Time for Keeps
Title: This Time for Keeps
Character: Harriett Bryant
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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Born to Sing
Title: Born to Sing
Character: Patsy Eastman
Released: February 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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Babes on Broadway
Title: Babes on Broadway
Character: Jo Conway
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
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I'll Wait for You
Title: I'll Wait for You
Character: Lizzie Miller
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Virginia Johansen
Released: April 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
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Keeping Company
Title: Keeping Company
Character: Harriet Thomas
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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The Philadelphia Story
Title: The Philadelphia Story
Character: Dinah Lord
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Jubilee 'Jubie' Davis
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Louise
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Tannie Edison
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Henry Goes Arizona
Title: Henry Goes Arizona
Character: Molly Cullison
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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Bad Little Angel
Title: Bad Little Angel
Character: Patricia Victoria Sanderson
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Little Mary
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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The Under-Pup
Title: The Under-Pup
Character: Janet Cooper
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Ellen Sparling
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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The Rookie Cop
Title: The Rookie Cop
Character: Nicey
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
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Fixer Dugan
Title: Fixer Dugan
Character: Ethel "Terry" O'Connell
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Patricia Lanyard
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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The Great Man Votes
Title: The Great Man Votes
Character: Joan
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Out West with the Hardys
Title: Out West with the Hardys
Character: Jake Holt
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Too Hot to Handle
Title: Too Hot to Handle
Character: Hulda
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
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Mother Carey's Chickens
Title: Mother Carey's Chickens
Character: Lally Joy Popham
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Young Peggy Ranson
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Scandal Street
Title: Scandal Street
Character: Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
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Love Is a Headache
Title: Love Is a Headache
Character: Jake O'Toole
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Souls at Sea
Title: Souls at Sea
Character: Tina
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Character: Luck
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Nabby
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1937
Character: Flowergirl
Released: October 5, 1936
Type: Movie
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
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Girl of the Ozarks
Title: Girl of the Ozarks
Character: Edie Moseley
Released: June 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
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Timothy's Quest
Title: Timothy's Quest
Character: Samantha Tarbox
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).
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Peter Ibbetson
Title: Peter Ibbetson
Character: Mimsey
Released: November 7, 1935
Type: Movie
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1936
Character: Little Girl in Hospital
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
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Freckles
Title: Freckles
Character: Laurie Lou Duncan
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Little Sister
Released: March 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Europena Wiggs
Released: October 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
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Long Lost Father
Title: Long Lost Father
Character: Girl at Pier
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Little Girl (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.