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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.
Most Popular Virginia Weidler Trailers
Total trailers found: 42
11 February 1938
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle.
26 July 1940
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.
08 December 1939
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
21 April 1939
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
12 February 1937
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.
07 April 1941
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
06 December 1931
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
21 June 1942
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
29 July 1938
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
25 November 1938
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
28 April 1939
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.
05 December 1940
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.
16 May 1941
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
07 November 1935
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England.
31 August 1939
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families.
27 October 1939
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
18 March 1935
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
14 January 1938
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.
28 October 1934
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr.
18 February 1942
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.
05 October 1936
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
27 December 1940
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
01 September 1939
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
26 February 1943
Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping into and having tea with movie stars like Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.
16 July 1938
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight.
27 January 1939
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
05 July 1940
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.
31 January 1936
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.
03 September 1937
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
15 March 1940
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.
20 September 1935
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
16 September 1938
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding.
01 March 1942
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
31 December 1941
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform.
13 January 1939
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle.
20 September 1935
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.
08 October 1943
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance.
19 January 1934
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
26 January 1946
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
16 April 1937
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
12 June 1936
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
04 May 1939
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.
