Virginia Weidler
Born: 1927-03-21 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 1968-07-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1955
1946
1943
- The Youngest Profession as Joan Lyons
- Best Foot Forward as Helen Schlesinger
1942
- This Time for Keeps as Harriett Bryant
- The Affairs of Martha as Miranda Sommerfield
- Born to Sing as Patsy Eastman
1941
- Babes on Broadway as Jo Conway
- I'll Wait for You as Lizzie Miller
- Barnacle Bill as Virginia Johansen
1940
- The Philadelphia Story as Dinah Lord
- All This, and Heaven Too as Louise
- Young Tom Edison as Tannie Edison
- Gold Rush Maisie as Jubilee 'Jubie' Davis
- Keeping Company as Harriet Thomas
1939
- The Women as Little Mary
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Patricia Lanyard
- The Under-Pup as Janet Cooper
- Outside These Walls as Ellen Sparling
- The Great Man Votes as Joan
- Bad Little Angel as Patricia Victoria Sanderson
- Fixer Dugan as Ethel "Terry" O'Connell
- The Rookie Cop as Nicey
- Henry Goes Arizona as Molly Cullison
1938
- Too Hot to Handle as Hulda
- Love Is a Headache as Jake O'Toole
- Scandal Street as Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
- Out West with the Hardys as Jake Holt
- Men with Wings as Young Peggy Ranson
- Mother Carey's Chickens as Lally Joy Popham
1937
- Maid of Salem as Nabby
- Souls at Sea as Tina
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat as Luck
1936
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 as Flowergirl
- Timothy's Quest as Samantha Tarbox
- Girl of the Ozarks as Edie Moseley
1935
- Peter Ibbetson as Mimsey
- Laddie as Little Sister
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 as Little Girl in Hospital
- Freckles as Laurie Lou Duncan
1934
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Europena Wiggs
- Long Lost Father as Girl at Pier
1931
- Surrender as Little Girl (uncredited)