Virginia Sale
Born: 1899-05-19 in Urbana, Illinois, USA
Died: 1992-08-23
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1973
- Slither as Bingo Caller
1969
1967
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
1964
- One Man's Way as Miss S. E. Collingswood
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Selma Plout
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Chicken Woman
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Woman #1
1947
- Trail Street as Hannah
- The Case of the Baby-Sitter as Veronica Hoopler
- The Hat Box Mystery as Veronica Hoopler
1946
- Badman's Territory as Meg
1945
- Star in the Night as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
- Danger Signal as Mrs. Crockett
- Blazing the Western Trail as Nellie
- She Gets Her Man as Phoebe
1944
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Tom's Wife
- When Strangers Marry as Chambermaid
- Together Again as Secretary (uncredited)
- Hi, Beautiful as Wife
- Dark Mountain as Aletha Bates
1943
- Destroyer as Kansas' Dance Partner
- Hit the Ice as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
- The Gang's All Here as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
- Reveille with Beverly as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
1942
- Torpedo Boat as Mrs. Sweeney
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Nurse (uncredited)
- The Flame of New Orleans as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
- Miss Polly as Orsina Wiggins
- Harvard Here I Come as Miss Frisbie
- One Foot in Heaven as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
- Her First Beau as Miss Blackmere
1940
- Strike Up the Band as Music Teacher
- The Howards of Virginia as Neighbor Girl
- Gold Rush Maisie as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
- Forty Little Mothers as Miss Fairwell
- Flowing Gold as Nurse
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby as Landlady (uncredited)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as School Teacher (uncredited)
- Calling All Husbands as Aunt Mabel Parker
1939
- When Tomorrow Comes as Waitress (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan in Reno as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
- The Amazing Mr. Williams as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1938
- The Jury's Secret as Miss Montague
1937
- Topper as Miss Johnson
- You're a Sweetheart as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
- The Go-Getter as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
- Outcast as Jessica Tuite
- Angel's Holiday as Hatchet-Faced Woman
- We Have Our Moments as Miss Koltz
- Dangerous Holiday as Aunt Augusta
- Meet the Missus as Mrs. Moseby
1936
- Three Men on a Horse as Chambermaid
1935
- It's A Small World as Lizzie
- We're in the Money as Nanny (uncredited)
- After the Dance as Edna
1934
- Madame du Barry as Sophie, the King's Daughter
- Smarty as Edna - Vicki's Maid
- The Man with Two Faces as Peabody
- Love Past Thirty as Nettle
- Embarrassing Moments as Mother
- Registered Nurse as Miss Dixon
- I Like it That Way as Old Maid
1933
- The Iron Master as Miss Smith
- Smoke Lightning as Housekeeper Sawyer
1932
- Union Depot as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
- Fireman, Save My Child as Miss Gallop
- Running Hollywood as Virginia Sale
- Those We Love as Bertha
- The Hollywood Handicap
1931
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
- My Past as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
- Too Young to Marry as Myra
- Gold Dust Gertie as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
- Big Business Girl as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
- Many a Slip as Smitty
- Selling Shorts as Dot
1930
- Moby Dick as Old Maid
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Miss J. Rule
- Bright Lights as Newspaper reporter
- Loose Ankles as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
- New Moon as Madame Romanski
- Back Pay as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Flirty Dowager
- The Dude Wrangler as Dude Guest
- What a Life as Head Prison Reformer
- Embarrassing Moments as Aunt Prudence
- Lovin' the Ladies as Marie - Joan's Maid
1929
- Weary River as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
- Fancy Baggage as Miss Hickey
- Why Be Good? as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
- The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City as Selma Meyer
- Stewed, Fried and Boiled
- Below the Deadline as Mother Biblow
1928
- The Crowd as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
- Harold Teen as Mrs. Schmittenberger
- Midnight Madness as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
- The Floating College as Miss Cobbs
1927
- Legionnaires in Paris as Fifi