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)
- She Gets Her Man as Phoebe
- Danger Signal as Mrs. Crockett
- Blazing the Western Trail as Nellie
1944
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Tom's Wife
- When Strangers Marry as Chambermaid
- Together Again as Secretary (uncredited)
- Dark Mountain as Aletha Bates
- Hi, Beautiful as Wife
1943
- The Gang's All Here as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
- Hit the Ice as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
- Destroyer as Kansas' Dance Partner
- Reveille with Beverly as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
1942
- Torpedo Boat as Mrs. Sweeney
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Nurse (uncredited)
- Her First Beau as Miss Blackmere
- Harvard Here I Come as Miss Frisbie
- The Flame of New Orleans as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
- One Foot in Heaven as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
- Miss Polly as Orsina Wiggins
1940
- Calling All Husbands as Aunt Mabel Parker
- The Howards of Virginia as Neighbor Girl
- Strike Up the Band as Music Teacher
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby as Landlady (uncredited)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as School Teacher (uncredited)
- Gold Rush Maisie as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
- Flowing Gold as Nurse
- Forty Little Mothers as Miss Fairwell
1939
- The Amazing Mr. Williams as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
- When Tomorrow Comes as Waitress (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan in Reno as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
1938
- The Jury's Secret as Miss Montague
1937
- The Go-Getter as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
- Outcast as Jessica Tuite
- We Have Our Moments as Miss Koltz (uncredited)
- Topper as Miss Johnson
- Meet the Missus as Mrs. Moseby
- You're a Sweetheart as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
- Angel's Holiday as Hatchet-Faced Woman
- Dangerous Holiday as Aunt Augusta
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
- I Like it That Way as Old Maid
- Love Past Thirty as Nettle
- Madame du Barry as Sophie, the King's Daughter
- Smarty as Edna - Vicki's Maid
- Registered Nurse as Miss Dixon
- The Man with Two Faces as Peabody
- Embarrassing Moments as Mother
1933
- The Iron Master as Miss Smith
- Smoke Lightning as Housekeeper Sawyer
1932
- Union Depot as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
- The Hollywood Handicap
- Running Hollywood as Virginia Sale
- Those We Love as Bertha
- Fireman, Save My Child as Miss Gallop
1931
- Big Business Girl as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
- Many a Slip as Smitty
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
- Too Young to Marry as Myra
- My Past as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
- Selling Shorts as Dot
- Gold Dust Gertie as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
1930
- Moby Dick as Old Maid
- Embarrassing Moments as Aunt Prudence
- The Dude Wrangler as Dude Guest
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Miss J. Rule
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Flirty Dowager
- What a Life as Head Prison Reformer
- Bright Lights as Newspaper reporter
- New Moon as Madame Romanski
- Loose Ankles as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
- Lovin' the Ladies as Marie - Joan's Maid
- Back Pay as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
1929
- The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City as Selma Meyer
- Stewed, Fried and Boiled
- Weary River as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
- Why Be Good? as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
- Fancy Baggage as Miss Hickey
- 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