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Birthday: May 19, 1899
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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
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
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