Where Are They Now?
HOT GALLERY: The Stars of My Girl—Where Are They Now?
"Vada. I'm embalming my high school teacher. Don't sing." That line, from the trailer for My Girl (1991), was the first hint that this movie was destined to become a classic. My Girl belongs to the pre-grunge '90s, when sincerity was still more common than irony. Yes, the film was set in the summer of 1972. But now that we're in 2011, doesn't 1991 feel like a more innocent time? It's been 20 years since My Girl charmed us all into submission. Where have all the actors gone? Let's find out. By Brett Singer
Anna Chlumsky (Vada Margaret Sultenfuss)
Is it possible that there was a more adorably precocious character than Vada Margaret Sultenfuss inMy Girl? Vada, who likes her name, is convinced she is dying, and only hangs out with people she finds "intellectually stimulating". She was played perfectly by Anna Chlumsky, a child model who had done only one other film (1989's Uncle Buck, which starred Macaulay Culkin) when My Girl was released in 1991.