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
- Danger Signal as Mrs. Crockett
- She Gets Her Man as Phoebe
- Blazing the Western Trail as Nellie
- Star in the Night as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
1944
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Tom's Wife
- Together Again as Secretary (uncredited)
- Dark Mountain as Aletha Bates
- When Strangers Marry as Chambermaid
- 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)
- The Flame of New Orleans as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
- One Foot in Heaven as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
- Harvard Here I Come as Miss Frisbie
- Her First Beau as Miss Blackmere
- Miss Polly as Orsina Wiggins
1940
- The Howards of Virginia as Neighbor Girl
- Strike Up the Band as Music Teacher
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as School Teacher (uncredited)
- Calling All Husbands as Aunt Mabel Parker
- Forty Little Mothers as Miss Fairwell
- Flowing Gold as Nurse
- Gold Rush Maisie as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby as Landlady (uncredited)
1939
- When Tomorrow Comes as Waitress (uncredited)
- The Amazing Mr. Williams as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan in Reno as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
1938
- The Jury's Secret as Miss Montague
1937
- Topper as Miss Johnson
- Outcast as Jessica Tuite
- We Have Our Moments as Miss Koltz (uncredited)
- The Go-Getter as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
- You're a Sweetheart as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
- Angel's Holiday as Hatchet-Faced Woman
- Dangerous Holiday as Aunt Augusta
- Meet the Missus as Mrs. Moseby
1936
- Three Men on a Horse as Chambermaid
1935
- After the Dance as Edna
- We're in the Money as Nanny (uncredited)
- It's A Small World as Lizzie
1934
- Embarrassing Moments as Mother
- Love Past Thirty as Nettle
- I Like it That Way as Old Maid
- Smarty as Edna - Vicki's Maid
- Madame du Barry as Sophie, the King's Daughter
- The Man with Two Faces as Peabody
- Registered Nurse as Miss Dixon
1933
- The Iron Master as Miss Smith
- Smoke Lightning as Housekeeper Sawyer
1932
- Running Hollywood as Virginia Sale
- Union Depot as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
- Fireman, Save My Child as Miss Gallop
- The Hollywood Handicap
- Those We Love as Bertha
1931
- Big Business Girl as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
- My Past as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
- Too Young to Marry as Myra
- Many a Slip as Smitty
- Gold Dust Gertie as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
- Selling Shorts as Dot
1930
- Moby Dick as Old Maid
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Miss J. Rule
- Lord Byron of Broadway as Flirty Dowager
- The Dude Wrangler as Dude Guest
- Embarrassing Moments as Aunt Prudence
- Loose Ankles as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
- Back Pay as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
- Bright Lights as Newspaper reporter
- Lovin' the Ladies as Marie - Joan's Maid
- New Moon as Madame Romanski
- What a Life as Head Prison Reformer
1929
- The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City as Selma Meyer
- Why Be Good? as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
- Weary River as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
- Fancy Baggage as Miss Hickey
- Below the Deadline as Mother Biblow
- Stewed, Fried and Boiled
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