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.
Known For
Credits
- 1973 · Slither as Bingo Caller
- 1969 · Big Daddy as
- 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
- 1963 · Petticoat Junction as Maude Blake
- 1962 · The Beverly Hillbillies as Chicken Woman
- 1960 · The Andy Griffith Show as Woman #1
- 1960 · The Andy Griffith Show as Mrs. Beggs
- 1947 · The Case of the Baby-Sitter as Veronica Hoopler
- 1947 · The Hat Box Mystery as Veronica Hoopler
- 1947 · Trail Street as Hannah
- 1946 · Badman's Territory as Meg
- 1945 · Danger Signal as Mrs. Crockett
- 1945 · Star in the Night as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
- 1945 · Blazing the Western Trail as Nellie
- 1945 · She Gets Her Man as Phoebe
- 1944 · The Thin Man Goes Home as Tom's Wife
- 1944 · Together Again as Secretary (uncredited)
- 1944 · Dark Mountain as Aletha Bates
- 1944 · When Strangers Marry as Chambermaid
- 1943 · The Gang's All Here as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
- 1943 · Destroyer as Kansas' Dance Partner
- 1943 · Hit the Ice as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
- 1943 · Reveille with Beverly as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
- 1942 · Torpedo Boat as Mrs. Sweeney
- 1941 · Harvard Here I Come as Miss Frisbie
- 1941 · They Died with Their Boots On as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1941 · Miss Polly as Orsina Wiggins
- 1941 · One Foot in Heaven as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
- 1941 · The Flame of New Orleans as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
- 1941 · Her First Beau as Miss Blackmere
- 1940 · Strike Up the Band as Music Teacher
- 1940 · The Howards of Virginia as Neighbor Girl
- 1940 · Calling All Husbands as Aunt Mabel Parker
- 1940 · Flowing Gold as Nurse
- 1940 · Gold Rush Maisie as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
- 1940 · I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1940 · Forty Little Mothers as Miss Fairwell
- 1940 · The Doctor Takes a Wife as School Teacher (uncredited)
- 1939 · The Amazing Mr. Williams as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
- 1939 · Charlie Chan in Reno as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
- 1938 · The Jury's Secret as Miss Montague
- 1937 · You're a Sweetheart as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
- 1937 · Topper as Miss Johnson
- 1937 · Angel's Holiday as Hatchet-Faced Woman
- 1937 · Dangerous Holiday as Aunt Augusta
- 1937 · Meet the Missus as Mrs. Moseby
- 1937 · The Go-Getter as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
- 1937 · We Have Our Moments as Miss Koltz
- 1937 · Outcast as Jessica Tuite
- 1936 · Three Men on a Horse as Chambermaid
- 1935 · We're in the Money as Nanny (uncredited)
- 1935 · After the Dance as Edna
- 1935 · It's A Small World as Lizzie
- 1934 · Madame du Barry as Sophie, the King's Daughter
- 1934 · Embarrassing Moments as Mother
- 1934 · The Man with Two Faces as Peabody
- 1934 · Smarty as Edna - Vicki's Maid
- 1934 · Registered Nurse as Miss Dixon
- 1934 · I Like it That Way as Old Maid
- 1934 · Love Past Thirty as Nettle
- 1933 · The Iron Master as Miss Smith
- 1933 · Smoke Lightning as Housekeeper Sawyer
- 1932 · Those We Love as Bertha
- 1932 · Fireman, Save My Child as Miss Gallop
- 1932 · Running Hollywood as Virginia Sale
- 1932 · Union Depot as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
- 1931 · Selling Shorts as Dot
- 1931 · The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
- 1931 · Gold Dust Gertie as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
- 1931 · Big Business Girl as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
- 1931 · My Past as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
- 1931 · Too Young to Marry as Myra
- 1931 · Many a Slip as Smitty
- 1930 · New Moon as Madame Romanski
- 1930 · Bright Lights as Newspaper reporter
- 1930 · Moby Dick as Old Maid
- 1930 · The Dude Wrangler as Dude Guest
- 1930 · Back Pay as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
- 1930 · Show Girl in Hollywood as Miss J. Rule
- 1930 · Lovin' the Ladies as Marie - Joan's Maid
- 1930 · What a Life as Head Prison Reformer
- 1930 · Lord Byron of Broadway as Flirty Dowager
- 1930 · Loose Ankles as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
- 1930 · Embarrassing Moments as Aunt Prudence
- 1929 · Stewed, Fried and Boiled as
- 1929 · Why Be Good? as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1929 · Weary River as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
- 1929 · Fancy Baggage as Miss Hickey
- 1929 · Below the Deadline as Mother Biblow
- 1928 · The Floating College as Miss Cobbs
- 1928 · Harold Teen as Mrs. Schmittenberger
- 1928 · Midnight Madness as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
- 1928 · The Crowd as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
- 1927 · Legionnaires in Paris as Fifi