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Virginia Anna Adeleid Weidler (March 21, 1927 [1] – July 1, 1968) was an American child actress, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. [ 2 ] Early life and career
Outside These Walls is a 1939 American crime film directed by Ray McCarey and starring Michael Whalen, Dolores Costello and Virginia Weidler. Plot
The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the "Backyard Musical" series about kids who put on their own show, following Babes in Arms (1939) and Strike Up the Band (1940).
Virginia Weidler and Terry, who also played "Toto" in The Wizard of Oz that year (1939) . Bad Little Angel is a 1939 inspirational drama film starring Virginia Weidler as an orphan named Patsy Sanderson, living in America around 1900.
It subsequently appeared in the movie The Philadelphia Story (1940), sung by Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord. The complex lyrics by Harburg – with clever rhymes such as "Lydia/encyclopedia" and "Amazon/pajamas on" – were inspired by W. S. Gilbert. [1]
The Youngest Profession is a 1943 film directed by Edward Buzzell, and starring Virginia Weidler, Edward Arnold, John Carroll, Scotty Beckett, and Agnes Moorehead.Based on a short story series and book written by Lillian Day, it contains cameos by Greer Garson, Lana Turner, William Powell, Walter Pidgeon, and Robert Taylor.
The magazine particularly praised the performance of Brown, and also felt that Weidler's acting was "of the highest order." [ 29 ] The New York Times commented that the film was “an agreeable specimen of the homespun drama” and that it “retains the stimulating flavor of the Indiana backwoods country of thirty-odd years ago.”
Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Butterfly McQueen, Theresa Harris, and Hedda Hopper also appear in smaller roles. Fontaine was the last surviving actress with a credited role in the film; she died in 2013. The film continued the play's all-female tradition—the entire cast of more than 130 speaking roles was female.