Word: weidler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good picture in its own right. Although scornful of the ordinary limits of credulity, its whimsy and human interest combine to make a pleasant, more is at the top of his form, but is closely press-oftentimes moving, comedy. Actor John Barryed by two child performers. They are Virginia Weidler and Peter Holden, Broadway's infant who speaks with the wisdom and dignity of the ages...
...Wiggin's planting, but whatever they unearth is homey stuff. Little Peter (Donnie Dunagan) prattles through an experiment in paperhanging with a three-year-old's matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over too much to the side; beau-aged Nancy and Kitty (Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler) get in & out of sweetheart tangles without a scratch. Mothering this engaging brood...
...thin at Poker Flat, Calif. in 1851 until a dance hall girl gave birth to a female child in the backroom of Gambler John Oakhurst's saloon, Mr. Oakhurst (Preston Foster) acting as midwife. Because a gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles...
...quite creditable performance as Peter, and Ann Harding is even better as the Duchess of Towers. It was a pleasant surprise to find Donald Meek taking the part of blind Mr. Slade so well. Gogo was played by Dickie Moore while the role of Mimsey was taken by Virginia Weidler. Both of the children did well although they were made to cry too much. Their part of the story, unfortunately was telescoped to such an extent that the importance of the childhood relation which is so carefully established by du Maurois is largely lost and the explaining sub-title...
...have recently conducted unprecedented raids on U. S. nurseries and cradles. In the past year, Baby LeRoy (It's a Gift), Frankie Thomas (Wednesday's Child), Georgie Breakstone (No Greater Glory), Jane Withers (Bright Eyes), Baby Jane (Imitation of Life), David Holt (You Belong to Me), Virginia Weidler (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Freddie Bartholomew (David Copperfield) have earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth of 1935, a solemn, bun-faced 3-year-old named Dickie Walters. Since he is still comparatively inarticulate, Dickie Walters...