Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 19, 1899
Place of Birth:
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Social Media
Virginia Sale
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Slither | Bingo Caller |
| 1969 | Big Daddy | |
| 1967 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Cleaning Woman (uncredited) |
| 1964 | One Man's Way | Miss S. E. Collingswood |
| 1947 | The Case of the Baby-Sitter | Veronica Hoopler |
| 1947 | The Hat Box Mystery | Veronica Hoopler |
| 1947 | Trail Street | Hannah |
| 1946 | Badman's Territory | Meg |
| 1945 | Danger Signal | Mrs. Crockett |
| 1945 | Star in the Night | Miss Roberts (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Blazing the Western Trail | Nellie |
| 1945 | She Gets Her Man | Phoebe |
| 1944 | The Thin Man Goes Home | Tom's Wife |
| 1944 | Dark Mountain | Aletha Bates |
| 1944 | Together Again | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1944 | When Strangers Marry | Chambermaid |
| 1944 | Hi, Beautiful | Wife |
| 1943 | Reveille with Beverly | Mrs. Browning (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Destroyer | Kansas' Dance Partner |
| 1943 | Hit the Ice | Nurse who Faints (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The Gang's All Here | Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Torpedo Boat | Mrs. Sweeney |
| 1941 | The Flame of New Orleans | Giraud's Cousin Clarissa |
| 1941 | Miss Polly | Orsina Wiggins |
| 1941 | Harvard Here I Come | Miss Frisbie |
| 1941 | They Died with Their Boots On | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Her First Beau | Miss Blackmere |
| 1941 | One Foot in Heaven | Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Calling All Husbands | Aunt Mabel Parker |
| 1940 | I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby | Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Doctor Takes a Wife | School Teacher (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Flowing Gold | Nurse |
| 1940 | Strike Up the Band | Music Teacher |
| 1940 | The Howards of Virginia | Neighbor Girl |
| 1940 | Forty Little Mothers | Miss Fairwell |
| 1940 | Gold Rush Maisie | Mrs. Harry Gilpin |
| 1939 | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Charlie Chan in Reno | Maid Reporting Missing Passkey |
| 1938 | The Jury's Secret | Miss Montague |
| 1937 | Topper | Miss Johnson |
| 1937 | Dangerous Holiday | Aunt Augusta |
| 1937 | Meet the Missus | Mrs. Moseby |
| 1937 | We Have Our Moments | Miss Koltz |
| 1937 | Outcast | Jessica Tuite |
| 1937 | You're a Sweetheart | Gawking Wife (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Angel's Holiday | Hatchet-Faced Woman |
| 1937 | The Go-Getter | Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Three Men on a Horse | Chambermaid |
| 1935 | It's A Small World | Lizzie |
| 1935 | After the Dance | Edna |
| 1935 | We're in the Money | Nanny (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Man with Two Faces | Peabody |
| 1934 | Love Past Thirty | Nettle |
| 1934 | Smarty | Edna - Vicki's Maid |
| 1934 | Madame du Barry | Sophie, the King's Daughter |
| 1934 | Registered Nurse | Miss Dixon |
| 1934 | Embarrassing Moments | Mother |
| 1934 | I Like it That Way | Old Maid |
| 1933 | The Iron Master | Miss Smith |
| 1933 | Smoke Lightning | Housekeeper Sawyer |
| 1932 | Those We Love | Bertha |
| 1932 | Running Hollywood | Virginia Sale |
| 1932 | Fireman, Save My Child | Miss Gallop |
| 1932 | Union Depot | Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Hollywood Handicap | |
| 1931 | Selling Shorts | Dot |
| 1931 | My Past | Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary |
| 1931 | Gold Dust Gertie | Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit |
| 1931 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Charity Ward Nun (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Too Young to Marry | Myra |
| 1931 | Big Business Girl | Sally Curtin (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Many a Slip | Smitty |
| 1930 | The Dude Wrangler | Dude Guest |
| 1930 | Embarrassing Moments | Aunt Prudence |
| 1930 | Lovin' the Ladies | Marie - Joan's Maid |
| 1930 | Back Pay | Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary |
| 1930 | New Moon | Madame Romanski |
| 1930 | Show Girl in Hollywood | Miss J. Rule |
| 1930 | Lord Byron of Broadway | Flirty Dowager |
| 1930 | Bright Lights | Newspaper reporter |
| 1930 | Moby Dick | Old Maid |
| 1930 | What a Life | Head Prison Reformer |
| 1930 | Loose Ankles | Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla |
| 1929 | Stewed, Fried and Boiled | |
| 1929 | Weary River | Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Why Be Good? | Junior's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Fancy Baggage | Miss Hickey |
| 1929 | Below the Deadline | Mother Biblow |
| 1928 | Midnight Madness | The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary |
| 1928 | Harold Teen | Mrs. Schmittenberger |
| 1928 | The Crowd | Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Floating College | Miss Cobbs |
| 1927 | Legionnaires in Paris | Fifi |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction | Selma Plout |
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction | Maude Blake |
| 1962 | The Beverly Hillbillies | Chicken Woman |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | Woman #1 |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | Mrs. Beggs |