Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler ( born March 21, 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, † July 1, 1968 in Los Angeles ) was an American child star in Hollywood in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Life and work
Virgtina Weidler was born as a daughter of the emigrated from Germany to the U.S. architect Alfred Weidler and the opera singer Margaret Theresa Luise Weidler and was discovered and promoted by John Barrymore. She starred in several of his films with. Weidler also took occasional theater roles.
Virginia Weidler began her film career in 1934 with a supporting role in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch contract with Paramount Pictures. Since 1938, under contract with MGM, she was playing some of her most famous roles, including appearances in The Women, the daughter of Norma Shearer and The night before the wedding as the sister of Katharine Hepburn. Weidler not made the jump into adult specialist and she moved in 1947 completely from public life.
She died at the age 41 of a heart attack.