Virginia Sale
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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.
Acted in
Slither
1973
as Bingo Caller
Big Daddy
1969
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
One Man's Way
1964
as Miss S. E. Collingswood
Petticoat Junction
1963
as Selma Plout
Petticoat Junction
1963
as Maude Blake
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Chicken Woman
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Woman #1
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Mrs. Beggs
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947
as Veronica Hoopler
The Hat Box Mystery
1947
as Veronica Hoopler
Trail Street
1947
as Hannah
Badman's Territory
1946
as Meg
Danger Signal
1945
as Mrs. Crockett
Star in the Night
1945
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Blazing the Western Trail
1945
as Nellie
She Gets Her Man
1945
as Phoebe
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
as Tom's Wife
Together Again
1944
as Secretary (uncredited)
Dark Mountain
1944
as Aletha Bates
When Strangers Marry
1944
as Chambermaid
The Gang's All Here
1943
as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Destroyer
1943
as Kansas' Dance Partner
Hit the Ice
1943
as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
1943
as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
Torpedo Boat
1942
as Mrs. Sweeney
Harvard Here I Come
1941
as Miss Frisbie
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Nurse (uncredited)
Miss Polly
1941
as Orsina Wiggins
One Foot in Heaven
1941
as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
The Flame of New Orleans
1941
as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Her First Beau
1941
as Miss Blackmere
Strike Up the Band
1940
as Music Teacher
The Howards of Virginia
1940
as Neighbor Girl
Calling All Husbands
1940
as Aunt Mabel Parker
Flowing Gold
1940
as Nurse
Gold Rush Maisie
1940
as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940
as Landlady (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers
1940
as Miss Fairwell
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
as School Teacher (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Reno
1939
as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
The Jury's Secret
1938
as Miss Montague
You're a Sweetheart
1937
as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Topper
1937
as Miss Johnson
Angel's Holiday
1937
as Hatchet-Faced Woman
Dangerous Holiday
1937
as Aunt Augusta
Meet the Missus
1937
as Mrs. Moseby
The Go-Getter
1937
as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
We Have Our Moments
1937
as Miss Koltz
Outcast
1937
as Jessica Tuite
Three Men on a Horse
1936
as Chambermaid
We're in the Money
1935
as Nanny (uncredited)
After the Dance
1935
as Edna
It's A Small World
1935
as Lizzie
Madame du Barry
1934
as Sophie, the King's Daughter
Embarrassing Moments
1934
as Mother
The Man with Two Faces
1934
as Peabody
Smarty
1934
as Edna - Vicki's Maid
Registered Nurse
1934
as Miss Dixon
I Like it That Way
1934
as Old Maid
Love Past Thirty
1934
as Nettle
The Iron Master
1933
as Miss Smith
Smoke Lightning
1933
as Housekeeper Sawyer
Those We Love
1932
as Bertha
Fireman, Save My Child
1932
as Miss Gallop
Running Hollywood
1932
as Virginia Sale
Union Depot
1932
as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Selling Shorts
1931
as Dot
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Gold Dust Gertie
1931
as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Big Business Girl
1931
as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
My Past
1931
as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Too Young to Marry
1931
as Myra
Many a Slip
1931
as Smitty
New Moon
1930
as Madame Romanski
Bright Lights
1930
as Newspaper reporter
Moby Dick
1930
as Old Maid
The Dude Wrangler
1930
as Dude Guest
Back Pay
1930
as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
as Miss J. Rule
Lovin' the Ladies
1930
as Marie - Joan's Maid
What a Life
1930
as Head Prison Reformer
Lord Byron of Broadway
1930
as Flirty Dowager
Loose Ankles
1930
as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Embarrassing Moments
1930
as Aunt Prudence
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1929
Why Be Good?
1929
as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Weary River
1929
as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Fancy Baggage
1929
as Miss Hickey
Below the Deadline
1929
as Mother Biblow
The Floating College
1928
as Miss Cobbs
Harold Teen
1928
as Mrs. Schmittenberger
Midnight Madness
1928
as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
The Crowd
1928
as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
Legionnaires in Paris
1927
as Fifi