Virginia Weidler Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Delightful child/juvenile actress Virginia Weidler (her friends called her "Ginny") had that knowing gleam in her eye that usually spelled trouble in one form or another for anyone at arm's reach. Born in Eagle Rock, California in 1926, she was one of six children born to Alfred Weidler, an architect, and Margaret Theres Louisa, a former Wagnerian ...
George Weidler, Walt Weidler, Warner Alfred Weidler
Movies
The Philadelphia Story, The Women, Best Foot Forward, Babes on Broadway, Young Tom Edison, The Youngest Profession, Bad Little Angel, The Great Man Votes, Born to Sing, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, Love Is a Headache, All This, and Heaven Too, Girl of the Ozarks, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Out West...
Star Sign
Aries
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[on her stage act and Judy Garland] No, I'm not nervous on the stage. Well, I was one day, but that was because Judy Garland was in the audience. You could hear my knees shaking. Judy is a friend of mine, and I hope some day to arrive not where she is, but well, somewhere near that.
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I almost got fired the first day [from Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934). They said I had to wink and I didn't know how to wink.
For the Paramount film The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936), Virginia was billed in promotional materials such as lobby cards as Virginia 'Pigtails' Weidler.
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Hedda Hopper told her readers that in 1944 Virginia, age 17, won a case of bourbon at the Mocambo Night Club in North Hollywood, but was successfully able to get the club owner Charlie Morrison to exchange it for 12 cases of Coca-Cola.
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By 1938, Virginia had reached a level of popularity where she was promoting her own line of children's hats, each one featuring a label with both her name and likeness.
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According to Jean Porter, Weidler was a Christian Scientist and would not seek medical help for the symptoms of cardiac disease she had experienced over the years.
The showstopper of her headlining stage act was a dead-on impression of deadpan singer Virginia O'Brien's "Rock-A-Bye Baby".
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When asked about her career in her later years, her husband Lionel Krisel said that Virginia "would always change the subject as quickly as possible without being rude. She never watched her old movies or replied to requests for interviews. Although she was never one to criticize, I think our boys got the impression that their mother didn't think very much of the motion picture industry".
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For a short time, she was the sister-in-law of Doris Day.
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Graduated from Hollywood Professional School in June, 1944.
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Longtime friend of actress Jean Porter, who kept in close proximity to Virginia up to the time of her death.
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For many years, it was believed that her mother died shortly after she did in 1968. The Social Security Death Index, however, indicates that Margaret Weidler died in 1987 at the age of 97. Virginia's father had died in 1966 at age 80.
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Cast at age three in Moby Dick (1930) starring John Barrymore. She was assigned to play a tiny tot who had to remove her dress in front of the camera. Refusing to do so, she was replaced in the role.
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Husband Lionel Krisel was a naval officer. Their two sons were named Ronnie Krisel and Gary Krisel.
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Had a heart condition for many years, which ultimately led to her early death at the age of only 41.
$12 Million
