We have another small list on Sunday, made slightly larger because I make the rules.

First we have Alexander Kirkland (1901). Kirkland was Major Dietrich Reichendorf in SURRENDER, a 1931 film featuring four year old Virginia Weidler as “little girl”. Kirkland has a very odd record of credits. He worked steadily in the early 1930s, returned to the stage until the late 1940s, dropped out again after 1949 and pops up in a credited role in A FACE IN THE CROWD in 1957. That would be the last of his 16 credits and after that film he disappeared from public view without even his death being reported. Today, he is most famous for having been married to Gypsy Rose Lee for about two years in the early 1940s.

Jackie Cooper (1922) was never in a film with Virginia. He did, however, attend Judy Garland’s seventeenth birthday party, thrown by L.B. Mayer. Ginny was at that party as well, and that’s enough for membership. He’d actually make it anyway because he was starring in the OUR GANG comedies in the early 1930s when Warner and Walter Weidler were also in them. The photo is of Jackie and Freddie Bartholomew in THE SPIRIT OF CULVER, a film made in the year Judy turned seventeen.

Raymond Roe (1925) was a stage actor who came to films in his teens. He played Schuyler, the beau Ginny’s Joan Lyons worried would be stolen away by Greer Garson in THE YOUNGEST PROFESSION (1943). His biggest film was probably THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR and he also appeared in a Gloria Jean Donald O'Connor film, IT COMES UP LOVE. I was going to use a screen cap of Ginny and Raymond from TYP, but I like this one better. After he left show business, Raymond had a long career as a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff.

Richard Hall (1934) was in two musicals featuring Virginia. He was the boy playing the piano in BABES ON BROADWAY (1941). The following year his character got a name-Mozart Cooper-in BORN TO SING. His most noted role is probably the one in BoB, but his role as Nick Jr. in SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN probably ranks pretty close. His movie career would be over by age 11 in 1945.