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