Virginia Weidler

She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, after suffering the effects of heart disease for several years. Other credits include:. She married after her retirement and distanced herself from her Hollywood career, and for the rest of her life politely refused any requests for interviews. The song, Scott Bakula, can be heard here (http://sunspot.lunarpages.com/mp3/sunspot_scott_bakula.mp3). By her retirment at the age of 17 she had appeared in more than forty films, and had acted with some of the biggest stars of her era, including Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in Too Hot to Handle (1938), Bette Davis in All This and Heaven Too (1940), and Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Babes on Broadway (1941), but she was not able to make continue her success as an actor into adulthood. A 'ModernRockPowerPopPunkTrio' from Madison, Wisconsin named Sunspot has written and recorded a song about the actor; sample lyrics include "...played quarterback-ula in Necessary Roughness", "I even watched 'Lord Of Illusions', even though I thought the movie kinda sucked", and the archetypical "Ziggy says there's a 98%... chance that the ending's sad". After a string of box-office disappointments, her film career ended with her final performance in 1943. As Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, Bakula is the captain of Starfleet's first long-range interstellar ship, a ship of exploration converted into a warship in order to defend Earth's interests.

She continued acting but by this time was maturing, and as a teenager was less popular with audiences. He also played a gay neighbor to Kevin Spacey in the Oscar-winning American Beauty in 1999. Her next major success, and the film for which she is perhaps best remembered was The Philadelphia Story (1941) in which she played the wise-cracking younger sister of Katharine Hepburn. Low ratings for this program caused its cancellation in 1993. She was one of the all-female cast of The Women (1939), as Norma Shearer's daughter, a role that was uncharacteristically sentimental for her. His performance in this program would earn him a Golden Globe award (along with three nominations) and four Emmy nominations for best actor. The film was a success and over the next few years Weidler was regularly employed by the studio, usually playing precocious tom-boys. Sam Beckett who was trapped by a malfunction of his time machine that inserts his consciousness into people in the past.

Her first film for them was opposite their leading male star Mickey Rooney in Love Is A Headache (1938). In this science fiction series, Bakula played the time traveler Dr. Neither studio made full use of her abilities, and when Paramount did not extend her contract, she was signed by MGM. His performance in Romance, Romance and his Tony nomination helped him win the lead role opposite Dean Stockwell in the critically acclaimed television series Quantum Leap. Over the next few years she played minor roles in films for RKO and Paramount Studios. Bakula also played the lead role as Alfred/Sam in the Broadway musical Romance, Romance and in 1988 he was nominated for a Tony Award. Born in Eagle Rock, California, Weidler made her first film appearance in 1933. His television debut would consist of commercials for Canada Dry and for de-caffeinated Folgers Coffee.

Virginia Weidler (March 21, 1926 – July 1, 1968) was an American child actor, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1983 Bakula (having previously appeared as a standby) made his Broadway debut playing Joe Di Maggio in Marilyn, An American Fable. Louis, Missouri. He was born in St. Bakula went on to play a minor, but notable role in the sitcom Murphy Brown and now stars as Captain Jonathan Archer in the science fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American television actor most famous for his lead role in the series Quantum Leap. IMDb: Scott Bakula (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000836/). BakulaNews - Scott Sightings (http://www.bakulanews.com). Gung Ho (1986).

My Sister Sam (1 episode 1986). Designing Women (1986–1988). Matlock (2 episodes 1987). Eisenhower and Lutz (1988).

Lord of Illusions (1995). Netforce (1999).