Virginia Sale
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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.
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Movies (95)
Slither
1973 · Bingo Caller
Big Daddy
1969
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967 · Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
One Man's Way
1964 · Miss S. E. Collingswood
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947 · Veronica Hoopler
The Hat Box Mystery
1947 · Veronica Hoopler
Trail Street
1947 · Hannah
Badman's Territory
1946 · Meg
Danger Signal
1945 · Mrs. Crockett
Star in the Night
1945 · Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Blazing the Western Trail
1945 · Nellie
She Gets Her Man
1945 · Phoebe
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Tom's Wife
Together Again
1944 · Secretary (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
1944 · Wife
Dark Mountain
1944 · Aletha Bates
When Strangers Marry
1944 · Chambermaid
The Gang's All Here
1943 · Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Destroyer
1943 · Kansas' Dance Partner
Hit the Ice
1943 · Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
1943 · Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
Torpedo Boat
1942 · Mrs. Sweeney
Harvard Here I Come
1941 · Miss Frisbie
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · Nurse (uncredited)
Miss Polly
1941 · Orsina Wiggins
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
The Flame of New Orleans
1941 · Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Her First Beau
1941 · Miss Blackmere
Strike Up the Band
1940 · Music Teacher
The Howards of Virginia
1940 · Neighbor Girl
Calling All Husbands
1940 · Aunt Mabel Parker
Flowing Gold
1940 · Nurse
Gold Rush Maisie
1940 · Mrs. Harry Gilpin
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940 · Landlady (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers
1940 · Miss Fairwell
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 · School Teacher (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
When Tomorrow Comes
1939 · Waitress (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Reno
1939 · Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
The Jury's Secret
1938 · Miss Montague
You're a Sweetheart
1937 · Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Topper
1937 · Miss Johnson
Angel's Holiday
1937 · Hatchet-Faced Woman
Dangerous Holiday
1937 · Aunt Augusta
Meet the Missus
1937 · Mrs. Moseby
The Go-Getter
1937 · Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
We Have Our Moments
1937 · Miss Koltz (uncredited)
Outcast
1937 · Jessica Tuite
Three Men on a Horse
1936 · Chambermaid
We're in the Money
1935 · Nanny (uncredited)
After the Dance
1935 · Edna
It's A Small World
1935 · Lizzie
Madame du Barry
1934 · Sophie, the King's Daughter
Embarrassing Moments
1934 · Mother
The Man with Two Faces
1934 · Peabody
Smarty
1934 · Edna - Vicki's Maid
Registered Nurse
1934 · Miss Dixon
I Like it That Way
1934 · Old Maid
Love Past Thirty
1934 · Nettle
The Iron Master
1933 · Miss Smith
Smoke Lightning
1933 · Housekeeper Sawyer
Those We Love
1932 · Bertha
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
Fireman, Save My Child
1932 · Miss Gallop
Running Hollywood
1932 · Virginia Sale
Union Depot
1932 · Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Selling Shorts
1931 · Dot
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931 · Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Gold Dust Gertie
1931 · Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Big Business Girl
1931 · Sally Curtin (uncredited)
My Past
1931 · Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Too Young to Marry
1931 · Myra
Many a Slip
1931 · Smitty
New Moon
1930 · Madame Romanski
Bright Lights
1930 · Newspaper reporter
Moby Dick
1930 · Old Maid
The Dude Wrangler
1930 · Dude Guest
Back Pay
1930 · Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 · Miss J. Rule
Lovin' the Ladies
1930 · Marie - Joan's Maid
What a Life
1930 · Head Prison Reformer
Lord Byron of Broadway
1930 · Flirty Dowager
Loose Ankles
1930 · Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Embarrassing Moments
1930 · Aunt Prudence
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1929
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
1929 · Selma Meyer
Why Be Good?
1929 · Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Weary River
1929 · Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Fancy Baggage
1929 · Miss Hickey
Below the Deadline
1929 · Mother Biblow
The Floating College
1928 · Miss Cobbs
Harold Teen
1928 · Mrs. Schmittenberger
Midnight Madness
1928 · The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
The Crowd
1928 · Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
Legionnaires in Paris
1927 · Fifi
