- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 19, 1899
- Place of Birth
- Urbana, Illinois, USA
- Died
- August 23, 1992
Virginia Sale
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
movieSlither
1973 · Bingo Caller
movieBig Daddy
1969
movieHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967 · Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
movieOne Man's Way
1964 · Miss S. E. Collingswood
tvPetticoat Junction
1963 · Selma Plout, Maude Blake
tvThe Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · Chicken Woman
tvThe Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Woman #1, Mrs. Beggs
movieThe Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947 · Veronica Hoopler
movieThe Hat Box Mystery
1947 · Veronica Hoopler
movieTrail Street
1947 · Hannah
movieBadman's Territory
1946 · Meg
movieDanger Signal
1945 · Mrs. Crockett
movieStar in the Night
1945 · Miss Roberts (uncredited)
movieBlazing the Western Trail
1945 · Nellie
movieShe Gets Her Man
1945 · Phoebe
movieThe Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Tom's Wife
movieTogether Again
1944 · Secretary (uncredited)
movieHi, Beautiful
1944 · Wife
movieDark Mountain
1944 · Aletha Bates
movieWhen Strangers Marry
1944 · Chambermaid
movieThe Gang's All Here
1943 · Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
movieDestroyer
1943 · Kansas' Dance Partner
movieHit the Ice
1943 · Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
movieReveille with Beverly
1943 · Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
movieTorpedo Boat
1942 · Mrs. Sweeney
movieHarvard Here I Come
1941 · Miss Frisbie
movieThey Died with Their Boots On
1941 · Nurse (uncredited)
movieMiss Polly
1941 · Orsina Wiggins
movieOne Foot in Heaven
1941 · Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
movieThe Flame of New Orleans
1941 · Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
movieHer First Beau
1941 · Miss Blackmere
movieStrike Up the Band
1940 · Music Teacher
movieThe Howards of Virginia
1940 · Neighbor Girl
movieCalling All Husbands
1940 · Aunt Mabel Parker
movieFlowing Gold
1940 · Nurse
movieGold Rush Maisie
1940 · Mrs. Harry Gilpin
movieI Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940 · Landlady (uncredited)
movieForty Little Mothers
1940 · Miss Fairwell
movieThe Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 · School Teacher (uncredited)
movieThe Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
movieWhen Tomorrow Comes
1939 · Waitress (uncredited)
movieCharlie Chan in Reno
1939 · Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
movieThe Jury's Secret
1938 · Miss Montague
movieYou're a Sweetheart
1937 · Gawking Wife (uncredited)
movieTopper
1937 · Miss Johnson
movieAngel's Holiday
1937 · Hatchet-Faced Woman
movieDangerous Holiday
1937 · Aunt Augusta
movieMeet the Missus
1937 · Mrs. Moseby
movieThe Go-Getter
1937 · Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
movieWe Have Our Moments
1937 · Miss Koltz (uncredited)
movieOutcast
1937 · Jessica Tuite
movieThree Men on a Horse
1936 · Chambermaid
movieWe're in the Money
1935 · Nanny (uncredited)
movieAfter the Dance
1935 · Edna
movieIt's A Small World
1935 · Lizzie
movieMadame du Barry
1934 · Sophie, the King's Daughter
movieEmbarrassing Moments
1934 · Mother
movieThe Man with Two Faces
1934 · Peabody
movieSmarty
1934 · Edna - Vicki's Maid
movieRegistered Nurse
1934 · Miss Dixon
movieI Like it That Way
1934 · Old Maid
Love Past Thirty
movieLove Past Thirty
1934 · Nettle
movieThe Iron Master
1933 · Miss Smith
movieSmoke Lightning
1933 · Housekeeper Sawyer
movieThose We Love
1932 · Bertha
The Hollywood Handicap
movieThe Hollywood Handicap
1932
movieFireman, Save My Child
1932 · Miss Gallop
Running Hollywood
movieRunning Hollywood
1932 · Virginia Sale
movieUnion Depot
1932 · Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Selling Shorts
movieSelling Shorts
1931 · Dot
movieThe Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931 · Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
movieGold Dust Gertie
1931 · Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
movieBig Business Girl
1931 · Sally Curtin (uncredited)
movieMy Past
1931 · Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
movieToo Young to Marry
1931 · Myra
movieMany a Slip
1931 · Smitty
movieNew Moon
1930 · Madame Romanski
movieBright Lights
1930 · Newspaper reporter
movieMoby Dick
1930 · Old Maid
movieThe Dude Wrangler
1930 · Dude Guest
movieBack Pay
1930 · Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
movieShow Girl in Hollywood
1930 · Miss J. Rule
movieLovin' the Ladies
1930 · Marie - Joan's Maid
movieWhat a Life
1930 · Head Prison Reformer
movieLord Byron of Broadway
1930 · Flirty Dowager
movieLoose Ankles
1930 · Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
movieEmbarrassing Moments
1930 · Aunt Prudence
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
movieStewed, Fried and Boiled
1929
movieThe Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
1929 · Selma Meyer
movieWhy Be Good?
1929 · Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
movieWeary River
1929 · Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
movieFancy Baggage
1929 · Miss Hickey
movieBelow the Deadline
1929 · Mother Biblow
movieThe Floating College
1928 · Miss Cobbs
movieHarold Teen
1928 · Mrs. Schmittenberger
movieMidnight Madness
1928 · The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
movieThe Crowd
1928 · Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
movieLegionnaires in Paris
1927 · Fifi