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Norma Shearer and Virginia Weidler in The Women (1939)

Joan Crawford and Virginia Weidler in The Women (1939)

Katharine Hepburn and Virginia Weidler in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Owen Davis Jr., Frank Morgan, and Virginia Weidler in Henry Goes Arizona (1939)

Gloria Jean and Virginia Weidler in The Under-Pup (1939)

Virginia Weidler in Best Foot Forward (1943)

Tommy Dix and Virginia Weidler in Best Foot Forward (1943)

Jean Porter and Virginia Weidler in The Youngest Profession (1943)

Walter Pidgeon, Jean Porter, and Virginia Weidler in The Youngest Profession (1943)

Greer Garson, Jean Porter, and Virginia Weidler in The Youngest Profession (1943)

Tom Brown, Carol Stone, and Virginia Weidler in Freckles (1935)

Melville Cooper and Virginia Weidler in The Affairs of Martha (1942)

Preston Foster, Jean Muir, and Virginia Weidler in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)

Jean Muir and Virginia Weidler in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)

Preston Foster and Virginia Weidler in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)

Scotty Beckett, John F. Hamilton, Ann Sothern, and Virginia Weidler in Gold Rush Maisie (1940)

Ann Sothern and Virginia Weidler in Gold Rush Maisie (1940)

Gene Reynolds, Virginia Weidler, and Terry in Bad Little Angel (1939)

Arthur Aylesworth, Virginia Weidler, and Terry in Bad Little Angel (1939)

Gene Reynolds and Virginia Weidler in Bad Little Angel (1939)

Virginia Weidler and Terry in Bad Little Angel (1939)

Frank Morgan and Virginia Weidler in Henry Goes Arizona (1939)

Douglas Fowley and Virginia Weidler in Henry Goes Arizona (1939)

Douglas Fowley, Guy Kibbee, Frank Morgan, and Virginia Weidler in Henry Goes Arizona (1939)

Bette Davis, June Lockhart, Ann E. Todd, and Virginia Weidler in All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Frank Hagney, Joe Strauch Jr., and Virginia Weidler in This Time for Keeps (1942)

Bob Burns, Bradley Page, Peggy Shannon, Lee Tracy, and Virginia Weidler in Fixer Dugan (1939)

Ann Gillis, Nan Grey, Gloria Jean, Iris Kirksey, Joanne Lybrook, Ann MacLean, Shirley Mills, Jean Porter, Carol Stevens, Virginia Weidler, Marjorie Whatley, Ida Mae Hays, June Harlan, and Joyce Aehle in The Under-Pup (1939)

Dickie Moore and Virginia Weidler in Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Fay Holden, Henry Travers, and Virginia Weidler in I'll Wait for You (1941)

Kenneth Brown, Gloria Jean, Billy Lenhart, and Virginia Weidler in The Under-Pup (1939)

Scotty Beckett and Virginia Weidler in The Youngest Profession (1943)

Beulah Bondi, Robert Cummings, Ann Gillis, Nan Grey, Gloria Jean, Margaret Lindsay, C. Aubrey Smith, and Virginia Weidler in The Under-Pup (1939)

Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Frederick Burton, Maxine Flores, Karen X. Gaylord, Mary Jane Gumm, Virginia Gumm, Lois James, Ray McDonald, Donald Meek, Dorothy Morris, Richard Quine, and Virginia Weidler in Babes on Broadway (1941)

Guy Kibbee, Irene Rich, Joe Strauch Jr., and Virginia Weidler in This Time for Keeps (1942)

Virginia Weidler in Girl of the Ozarks (1936)

Henrietta Crosman and Virginia Weidler in Girl of the Ozarks (1936)

Ray McDonald and Virginia Weidler in Born to Sing (1942)

Lucille Ball, Tommy Dix, and Virginia Weidler in Best Foot Forward (1943)

Jimmy Butler, Edith Fellows, Carmencita Johnson, and Virginia Weidler in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)

Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Anatole Litvak, and Virginia Weidler in All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Delightful child/juvenile actress Virginia Anna Adelaide Weidler (her friends called her "Ginny") had that knowing gleam in her eye that usually spelled trouble in one form or another for anyone nearby. She was born in Eagle Rock, California, in 1927, one of six children. Her mother was former Wagnerian opera singer Margarete Radon (born Margarete Therese Louisa Meyer), and her father was architect Alfred Weidler.

Virginia nearly made her acting debut at age 3 in John Barrymore's Moby Dick (1930) but was summarily replaced. A year later, she scored her first small movie bit in Warner Baxter's Surrender (1931) and was on her way. One of her brothers, child actor and musician George Weidler, was Doris Day's first husband (from 1946 to 1949).

RKO picked up young Virginia after learning that she could speak a bit of French. The average-looking youngster was ably cast as rural tomboy types in Laddie (1935) and Freckles (1935), the latter film allowing her to do a dead-on parody of Shirley Temple. She earned her first lead in Girl of the Ozarks (1936) and showed she could easily hold her own. After an unimpressive stint with Paramount, who tried to groom her as a rival to Fox's bratty Jane Withers, she was finally picked up by MGM and her film career blossomed. Co-starring with Mickey Rooney in Love Is a Headache (1938), she proved a natural young comedienne and precocious scene-stealer in such films as Out West with the Hardys (1938) (again with Rooney) and Too Hot to Handle (1938).

Little Virginia could also shine in dramatic outings, as she did with The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) and Bad Little Angel (1939), but she was never a good choice for sappy roles, as demonstrated when she played Norma Shearer's whiny imp of a daughter in The Women (1939). Virginia's forte was providing comedy relief, and she reached her young peak with two classic MGM films: Young Tom Edison (1940), as Rooney's creative sister, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), as Katharine Hepburn's smart-alecky younger sister. Her tongue-in-cheek rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" at the piano was just one of many memorable highlights from this vintage classic.

The young actress's career started to slip away from her when the teenage Shirley Temple signed with MGM, abruptly bumping "Plain-Jane" Virginia back to secondary status. After rather disappointing receptions to Born to Sing (1942), The Youngest Profession (1943), and Best Foot Forward (1943), the awkward teen left films and turned to vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedy performer, utilizing her full-scale talents as a mimic. She made her legitimate stage debut in "The Rich Full Life" at the John Golden Theatre in 1945, but the show closed within a month.

Soon after, Virginia retired from show business, married, and had two children. She passed away from a heart ailment at 41. After her death it was learned that she had suffered from rheumatic fever as a child.

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