Virginia Weidler
Nascimento : 1927-03-21, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA
Morte : 1968-07-01
História
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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.
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Helen Schlesinger
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.
Joan Lyons
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.
Miranda Sommerfield
Os membros de uma pequena comunidade abastada ficam preocupados quando é revelado que uma de suas empregadas domésticas está escrevendo uma exposição reveladora.
Harriett Bryant
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Patsy Eastman
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.
Jo Conway
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.
Lizzie Miller
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Virginia Johansen
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
Harriet Thomas
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
Dinah Lord
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.
Jubilee 'Jubie' Davis
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.
Louise
Adaptação do best-seller de Rachel Field. Bette Davis é a professora Henriette, que relembra sua história em flashbacks, trazendo à tona o tempo em que trabalhava como governanta do Duque de Praslin. Dominada por um ciúme doentio, a duquesa acusou Henriette de manter um caso com o duque. A governanta achou melhor deixar o emprego ao invés de criar confusão, mesmo com a promessa não cumprida da duquesa em escrever uma carta de referências. Logo depois, porém, a duquesa foi encontrada morta.
Tannie Edison
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.
Molly Cullison
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Patricia Victoria Sanderson
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Little Mary
Esta adaptação para a tela, roteirizada por Anita Loos e Jane Murfin e dirigida por George Cukor, foi um tremendo sucesso no seu lançamento. Estrelada por Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford e Rosalind Russell. O filme deu continuidade à tradição das peças só com personagens de mulheres tagarelas. Dos glamorosos apartamentos da alta sociedade de Manhattan, até Reno onde todos se divorciam, o filme mostra um enfoque ácido de suas vidas e dos esforços dos maridos para fazerem suas esposas ricas e poderosas. Durante toda o filme não aparece um único homem se quer, embora sejam muito citados, e o tema central seja os relacionamentos das mulheres com eles.
Janet Cooper
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.
Ellen Sparling
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.
Nicey
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.
Ethel "Terry" O'Connell
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
Patricia Lanyard
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Joan
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.
Jake Holt
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
Hulda
Enquanto estava em Xangai relatando a guerra sino-japonesa, Chris Hunter, um astuto repórter de notícias, encontra a piloto Alma Harding. Ela não confia nele, mas ele consegue contratá-la como sua assistente. Durante uma expedição aventureira através das selvas da América do Sul, sua opinião sobre ele começa a mudar.
Lally Joy Popham
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
Young Peggy Ranson
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.
Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
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.
Jake O'Toole
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.
Tina
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Luck
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Nabby
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.
Flowergirl
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!
Edie Moseley
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
Samantha Tarbox
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).
Mimsey / Mary, age 6
O arquiteto Peter Ibbetson é contratado pelo Duque de Towers para um trabalho de restauração em sua propriedade. Quando chega, descobre que a Duquesa Mary é, na verdade, a sua namoradinha de infância. A velha chama é reacesa e o duque, com ciúmes, tenta atirar em Peter, porém é morto por este. Peter recebe a pena de prisão perpétua e começa a se comunicar com Mary através dos sonhos de ambos.
Laurie Lou Duncan
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
Little Girl in Hospital
The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller, who doubles as the station's sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley serves as the house crooner. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device which can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
Little Sister
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
Europena Wiggs
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.
Girl at Pier
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Little Girl (uncredited)
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
