
Virginia Weidler
Biography
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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.
Acting (42 movies)

The Philadelphia Story
1940

The Women
1939

Too Hot to Handle
1938

Best Foot Forward
1943

Babes on Broadway
1941

All This, and Heaven Too
1940

Bad Little Angel
1939

Young Tom Edison
1940

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934

Peter Ibbetson
1935

Born to Sing
1942

This Time for Keeps
1942

Out West with the Hardys
1938

The Youngest Profession
1943

Gold Rush Maisie
1940

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939

Fixer Dugan
1939

The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937

Barnacle Bill
1941

Outside These Walls
1939

Henry Goes Arizona
1939

The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935

I'll Wait for You
1941

The Rookie Cop
1939

The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936

Love Is a Headache
1938

Mother Carey's Chickens
1938

The Affairs of Martha
1942

Men with Wings
1938

Souls at Sea
1937

Long Lost Father
1934

The Great Man Votes
1939

Laddie
1935

Keeping Company
1940

Freckles
1935

The Under-Pup
1939

Maid of Salem
1937

Surrender
1931

Girl of the Ozarks
1936

Scandal Street
1938

Peeks at Hollywood
1946

Timothy's Quest
1936
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