Virginia Sale
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.
Known For
Miss Johnson
Topper
Miss S. E. Collingswood
One Man's Way
Fifi
Legionnaires in Paris
Dude Guest
The Dude Wrangler
Mrs. Crockett
Danger Signal
Tom's Wife
The Thin Man Goes Home
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
The Flame of New Orleans
Bertha
Those We Love
Meg
Badman's Territory
Peabody
The Man with Two Faces
Veronica Hoopler
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Orsina Wiggins
Miss Polly
Bingo Caller
Slither
Aletha Bates
Dark Mountain
Nettle
Love Past Thirty
Veronica Hoopler
The Hat Box Mystery
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Chambermaid
Three Men on a Horse
Aunt Prudence
Embarrassing Moments
Dot
Selling Shorts
Edna - Vicki's Maid
Smarty
Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
My Past
Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Gold Dust Gertie
Aunt Augusta
Dangerous Holiday
Sophie, the King's Daughter
Madame du Barry
Virginia Sale
Running Hollywood
Marie - Joan's Maid
Lovin' the Ladies
Lizzie
It's A Small World
Mrs. Moseby
Meet the Missus
Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
Back Pay
Madame Romanski
New Moon
Miss J. Rule
Show Girl in Hollywood
Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Weary River
Flirty Dowager
Lord Byron of Broadway
The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
Midnight Madness
Mrs. Schmittenberger
Harold Teen
Miss Gallop
Fireman, Save My Child
Secretary (uncredited)
Together Again
Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Newspaper reporter
Bright Lights
Edna
After the Dance
Miss Dixon
Registered Nurse
Miss Koltz
We Have Our Moments
Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Aunt Mabel Parker
Calling All Husbands
Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
Charlie Chan in Reno
Jessica Tuite
Outcast
Miss Smith
The Iron Master
Landlady (uncredited)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Housekeeper Sawyer
Smoke Lightning
Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Why Be Good?
Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Star in the Night
Old Maid
Moby Dick
Miss Frisbie
Harvard Here I Come
Chambermaid
When Strangers Marry
School Teacher (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Nurse
Flowing Gold
Music Teacher
Strike Up the Band
Neighbor Girl
The Howards of Virginia
Gawking Wife (uncredited)
You're a Sweetheart
Myra
Too Young to Marry
Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
Head Prison Reformer
What a Life
Sally Curtin (uncredited)
Big Business Girl
Miss Fairwell
Forty Little Mothers
Nurse (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
Miss Hickey
Fancy Baggage
Nellie
Blazing the Western Trail
Nanny (uncredited)
We're in the Money
Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
The Crowd
Hatchet-Faced Woman
Angel's Holiday
Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
The Go-Getter
Miss Cobbs
The Floating College
Phoebe
She Gets Her Man
Mother Biblow
Below the Deadline
Miss Blackmere
Her First Beau
Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Loose Ankles
Kansas' Dance Partner
Destroyer
Miss Montague
The Jury's Secret
Big Daddy
Mrs. Harry Gilpin
Gold Rush Maisie
Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Hit the Ice
Hannah
Trail Street
Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Union Depot
Mother
Embarrassing Moments
Mrs. Sweeney
Torpedo Boat
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
Smitty
Many a Slip
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
Old Maid
I Like it That Way
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
91
Gender
Female
Birthday
1899-05-19
Place of Birth
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Virginia Sales