Virginia Weidler

Virginia Weidler

1927-03-21 Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA 42 Credits

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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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Peeks at Hollywood

Peeks at Hollywood

1946

Acting

Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.

Best Foot Forward

Best Foot Forward

1943

as Helen Schlesinger

6.0
Acting

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

The Youngest Profession

1943

as Joan Lyons

5.2
Acting

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

The Affairs of Martha

1942

as Miranda Sommerfield

6.2
Acting

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

This Time for Keeps

1942

as Harriett Bryant

6.0
Acting

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

Born to Sing

Born to Sing

1942

as Patsy Eastman

5.0
Acting

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

Babes on Broadway

1941

as Jo Conway

6.4
Acting

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

I'll Wait for You

1941

as Lizzie Miller

6.8
Acting

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

Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill

1941

as Virginia Johansen

7.7
Acting

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

Keeping Company

Keeping Company

1940

as Harriet Thomas

6.4
Acting

Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

1940

as Dinah Lord

7.6
Acting

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

Gold Rush Maisie

1940

as Jubilee 'Jubie' Davis

6.5
Acting

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

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

as Louise

7.1
Acting

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

Young Tom Edison

1940

as Tannie Edison

5.6
Acting

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

Henry Goes Arizona

1939

as Molly Cullison

6.0
Acting

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

Bad Little Angel

Bad Little Angel

1939

as Patricia Victoria Sanderson

4.9
Acting

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

The Women

The Women

1939

as Little Mary

7.1
Acting

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

The Under-Pup

The Under-Pup

1939

as Janet Cooper

6.0
Acting

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

Outside These Walls

1939

as Ellen Sparling

7.5
Acting

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

The Rookie Cop

1939

as Nicey

5.3
Acting

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

Fixer Dugan

1939

as Ethel "Terry" O'Connell

6.5
Acting

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

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

1939

as Patricia Lanyard

6.6
Acting

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

The Great Man Votes

The Great Man Votes

1939

as Joan

6.1
Acting

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

Out West with the Hardys

1938

as Jake Holt

6.4
Acting

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

Too Hot to Handle

1938

as Hulda

5.8
Acting

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

Mother Carey's Chickens

1938

as Lally Joy Popham

5.2
Acting

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

Men with Wings

Men with Wings

1938

as Young Peggy Ranson

5.0
Acting

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

Scandal Street

1938

as Wilma 'Willie' Murphy

Acting

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

Love Is a Headache

1938

as Jake O'Toole

5.7
Acting

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

Souls at Sea

1937

as Tina

6.0
Acting

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

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1937

as Luck

6.0
Acting

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

Maid of Salem

Maid of Salem

1937

as Nabby

5.9
Acting

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

The Big Broadcast of 1937

1936

as Flowergirl

5.4
Acting

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

Girl of the Ozarks

1936

as Edie Moseley

6.0
Acting

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

Timothy's Quest

1936

as Samantha Tarbox

3.0
Acting

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

Peter Ibbetson

1935

as Mimsey

6.8
Acting

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

The Big Broadcast of 1936

1935

as Little Girl in Hospital

5.5
Acting

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

Freckles

1935

as Laurie Lou Duncan

Acting

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.

Laddie

Laddie

1935

as Little Sister

Acting

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

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1934

as Europena Wiggs

6.0
Acting

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

Long Lost Father

1934

as Girl at Pier

5.7
Acting

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

Surrender

Surrender

1931

as Little Girl (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.