Virginia Sale
Born
May 19, 1899
Died
August 23, 1992 (93 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Virginia Sale (May 20, 1899 – August 23, 1992) was an American character actress whose career spanned six decades, during most of which she played older women, even when she was in her twenties. Over the 46 years she was active as an actress, she worked in films, stage, radio and television. She was famous for her one-woman stage show, Americana Sketches, which she did for more than 1,000 performances during a 15-year span.
Married to actor and studio executive Sam Wren, she co-starred with him in one of the first television family comedies, Wren's Nest, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She gave birth to fraternal twins, Virginia and Christopher, in 1936. Later in her career she worked on television, and in commercials. She died from heart failure at the age of 93 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in 1992.
Known For
Slither
Bingo Caller
1973
Big Daddy
1969
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
1967
One Man's Way
Miss S. E. Collingswood
1964
Petticoat Junction
Selma Plout · (6 episodes)
1963
Petticoat Junction
Maude Blake · (1 episode)
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
Chicken Woman · (1 episode)
1962
The Andy Griffith Show
Woman #1 · (1 episode)
1960
The Andy Griffith Show
Mrs. Beggs · (1 episode)
1960
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Veronica Hoopler
1947
The Hat Box Mystery
Veronica Hoopler
1947
Trail Street
Hannah
1947
Badman's Territory
Meg
1946
Danger Signal
Mrs. Crockett
1945
Star in the Night
Miss Roberts (uncredited)
1945
Blazing the Western Trail
Nellie
1945
She Gets Her Man
Phoebe
1945
The Thin Man Goes Home
Tom's Wife
1944
Together Again
Secretary (uncredited)
1944
Dark Mountain
Aletha Bates
1944
When Strangers Marry
Chambermaid
1944
The Gang's All Here
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
1943
Destroyer
Kansas' Dance Partner
1943
Hit the Ice
Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
1943
Reveille with Beverly
Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
1943
Torpedo Boat
Mrs. Sweeney
1942
Harvard Here I Come
Miss Frisbie
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
Nurse (uncredited)
1941
Miss Polly
Orsina Wiggins
1941
One Foot in Heaven
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
1941
The Flame of New Orleans
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
1941
Her First Beau
Miss Blackmere
1941
Strike Up the Band
Music Teacher
1940
The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
1940
Calling All Husbands
Aunt Mabel Parker
1940
Flowing Gold
Nurse
1940
Gold Rush Maisie
Mrs. Harry Gilpin
1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Landlady (uncredited)
1940
Forty Little Mothers
Miss Fairwell
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
School Teacher (uncredited)
1940
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1939
Charlie Chan in Reno
Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
1939
The Jury's Secret
Miss Montague
1938
You're a Sweetheart
Gawking Wife (uncredited)
1937
Topper
Miss Johnson
1937
Angel's Holiday
Hatchet-Faced Woman
1937
Dangerous Holiday
Aunt Augusta
1937
Meet the Missus
Mrs. Moseby
1937
The Go-Getter
Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
1937
We Have Our Moments
Miss Koltz
1937
Outcast
Jessica Tuite
1937
Three Men on a Horse
Chambermaid
1936
We're in the Money
Nanny (uncredited)
1935
After the Dance
Edna
1935
It's A Small World
Lizzie
1935
Madame du Barry
Sophie, the King's Daughter
1934
Embarrassing Moments
Mother
1934
The Man with Two Faces
Peabody
1934
Smarty
Edna - Vicki's Maid
1934
Registered Nurse
Miss Dixon
1934
I Like it That Way
Old Maid
1934
Love Past Thirty
Nettle
1934
The Iron Master
Miss Smith
1933
Smoke Lightning
Housekeeper Sawyer
1933
Those We Love
Bertha
1932
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
Fireman, Save My Child
Miss Gallop
1932
Running Hollywood
Virginia Sale
1932
Union Depot
Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
1932
Selling Shorts
Dot
1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
1931
Gold Dust Gertie
Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
1931
Big Business Girl
Sally Curtin (uncredited)
1931
My Past
Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
1931
Too Young to Marry
Myra
1931
Many a Slip
Smitty
1931
New Moon
Madame Romanski
1930
Bright Lights
Newspaper reporter
1930
Moby Dick
Old Maid
1930
The Dude Wrangler
Dude Guest
1930
Back Pay
Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
1930
Show Girl in Hollywood
Miss J. Rule
1930
Lovin' the Ladies
Marie - Joan's Maid
1930
What a Life
Head Prison Reformer
1930
Lord Byron of Broadway
Flirty Dowager
1930
Loose Ankles
Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
1930
Embarrassing Moments
Aunt Prudence
1930
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1929
Why Be Good?
Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
1929
Weary River
Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
1929
Fancy Baggage
Miss Hickey
1929
Below the Deadline
Mother Biblow
1929
The Floating College
Miss Cobbs
1928
Harold Teen
Mrs. Schmittenberger
1928
Midnight Madness
The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
1928
The Crowd
Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
1928
Legionnaires in Paris
Fifi
1927