The Women
1939
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by Danny Miller | Features, What's Hot. When screen legend John Barrymore declares a 12-year-old girl he worked with as “Hollywood’s greatest actress,” you can’t help but take notice. Born 89 years ago today, classic movie fans remember Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord, Katharine Hepburn’s precocious sister in MGM’s The Philadelphia ...
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.
Welcome to the silver screen wonderland of Classic Hollywood, where we celebrate the incomparable Virginia Weidler! 🌟Through triumphs and challenges, Virgin...
The daughter of an architect father and German opera-singer mother, Weidler made her first screen appearance at the age of 3. She created a minor sensation as Europena, most contentious of the many Wiggs children, in 1934's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
Weidler, Virginia (1926–1968)American child actress. Born Mar 21, 1926, in Eagle Rock, CA; died July 1, 1968, in Los Angeles, CA; dau. of an architect and a German opera singer (known professionally as Margaret Theresa Louise); sister of George Weidler (actor); m. Lionel Krisel, 1947.
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.
42 Credits. The Outcasts of Poker Flat. Bad Little Angel. The Big Broadcast of 1936. The Big Broadcast of 1937. Laddie. Swift Vengeance. Trouble for Two. Best Foot Forward. The Philadelphia Story....
