Virginia Weidler

She died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, after suffering the effects of heart disease for several years. She is set to again appear with Michelle Yeoh in the adaptation of Memoirs Of A Geisha, produced by Steven Spielberg. 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. Both of these as well as the Chinese-language Hero were highly successful in the English speaking world. 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. In 2001 she co-starred alongside Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2. After a string of box-office disappointments, her film career ended with her final performance in 1943. She further rose to fame due to her role in the internationally successful film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

She continued acting but by this time was maturing, and as a teenager was less popular with audiences. Her second film was The Road Home, which won the Silver Bear award in the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. 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. Her first film was a low-budget made-for television movie called Touching Starlight. 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. However by the age of 16 she decided to practice acting. The film was a success and over the next few years Weidler was regularly employed by the studio, usually playing precocious tom-boys. Born in Beijing, People's Republic of China, Zhang joined the Beijing Dancing College at the age of 11, and at 15 she joined the Beijing Dancing Academy.

Her first film for them was opposite their leading male star Mickey Rooney in Love Is A Headache (1938). The characters of her name can be literally translated as Zhāng (a surname, not to be confused with the more common Zhāng 张), Zǐ (child), and Yí (happiness). Neither studio made full use of her abilities, and when Paramount did not extend her contract, she was signed by MGM. ZHANG Ziyi (章子怡; pinyin: Zhāng Zǐyí, pronounced like "Jahng Dzih-ee") (born February 9, 1979) is a Chinese actress and dancer. Over the next few years she played minor roles in films for RKO and Paramount Studios. Cinema of China. Born in Eagle Rock, California, Weidler made her first film appearance in 1933. Starlight (1996).

Virginia Weidler (March 21, 1926 – July 1, 1968) was an American child actor, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. The Road Home (1999). Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Rush Hour 2 (2001). The Legend Of Zu (2001).

Musa (2001). Hero (2002). My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (2003). Purple Butterfly (2003).

2046 (2004). House of Flying Daggers (2004). Jasmine Women (2004). Operetta Tanukigoten (2005).

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). Good Cook, Likes Music (2005).