Virginia Weidler
Also Known As: Virginia Anna Adelheid Weidler, Ginny Weidler, Virginia W. Krisel, Virginia Krisel, Virginia Anna Adelaide Weidler
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 21, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 01, 1968
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The Philadelphia Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Too Hot to Handle
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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Best Foot Forward
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Babes on Broadway
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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All This, and Heaven Too
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Bad Little Angel
Overview: A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Young Tom Edison
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-28
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Peter Ibbetson
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-07
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Born to Sing
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-18
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This Time for Keeps
Overview: A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Out West with the Hardys
Overview: Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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The Youngest Profession
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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Gold Rush Maisie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Overview: Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Fixer Dugan
Overview: Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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Barnacle Bill
Overview: A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-07
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Overview: The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Outside These Walls
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-04
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Henry Goes Arizona
Overview: A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Genres: Drama Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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I'll Wait for You
Overview: A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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The Rookie Cop
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
Overview: The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-05
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Love Is a Headache
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Mother Carey's Chickens
Overview: A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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The Affairs of Martha
Overview: Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-21
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Men with Wings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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Souls at Sea
Overview: Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Long Lost Father
Overview: A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-19
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The Great Man Votes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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Laddie
Overview: A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-18
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Keeping Company
Overview: Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Freckles
Overview: A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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The Under-Pup
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Maid of Salem
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Surrender
Overview: Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-06
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Girl of the Ozarks
Overview: A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-12
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Scandal Street
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Peeks at Hollywood
Overview: Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-26
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Timothy's Quest
Overview: 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).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-31
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