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.