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 contrac...
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Complete Filmography
Peeks at Hollywood
1946
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Best Foot Forward
1943
as Helen Schlesinger
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-hun...
The Youngest Profession
1943
as Joan Lyons
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 a...
The Affairs of Martha
1942
as Miranda Sommerfield
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
This Time for Keeps
1942
as Harriett Bryant
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Born to Sing
1942
as Patsy Eastman
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.
Babes on Broadway
1941
as Jo Conway
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 th...
I'll Wait for You
1941
as Lizzie Miller
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Barnacle Bill
1941
as Virginia Johansen
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
Keeping Company
1940
as Harriet Thomas
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
The Philadelphia Story
1940
as Dinah Lord
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.
Gold Rush Maisie
1940
as Jubilee 'Jubie' Davis
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...
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Louise
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip...
Young Tom Edison
1940
as Tannie Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...
Henry Goes Arizona
1939
as Molly Cullison
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Bad Little Angel
1939
as Patricia Victoria Sanderson
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
The Women
1939
as Little Mary
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Under-Pup
1939
as Janet Cooper
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 beca...
Outside These Walls
1939
as Ellen Sparling
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent ...
The Rookie Cop
1939
as Nicey
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 d...
Fixer Dugan
1939
as Ethel "Terry" O'Connell
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
as Patricia Lanyard
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
The Great Man Votes
1939
as Joan
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, ...
Out West with the Hardys
1938
as Jake Holt
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
Too Hot to Handle
1938
as Hulda
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 m...
Mother Carey's Chickens
1938
as Lally Joy Popham
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
Men with Wings
1938
as Young Peggy Ranson
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. ...
Scandal Street
1938
as Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the smal...
Love Is a Headache
1938
as Jake O'Toole
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 kn...
Souls at Sea
1937
as Tina
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937
as Luck
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Maid of Salem
1937
as Nabby
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse...
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
as Flowergirl
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Girl of the Ozarks
1936
as Edie Moseley
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
Timothy's Quest
1936
as Samantha Tarbox
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 ...
Peter Ibbetson
1935
as Mimsey
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 i...
The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935
as Little Girl in Hospital
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...
Freckles
1935
as Laurie Lou Duncan
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
Laddie
1935
as Little Sister
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
as Europena Wiggs
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 be...
Long Lost Father
1934
as Girl at Pier
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Surrender
1931
as Little Girl (uncredited)
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.