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.
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Movies (47)
Slither
as Bingo Caller
1973
Big Daddy
1969
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
1967
One Man's Way
as Miss S. E. Collingswood
1964
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
as Veronica Hoopler
1947
The Hat Box Mystery
as Veronica Hoopler
1947
Trail Street
as Hannah
1947
Badman's Territory
as Meg
1946
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
1945
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Tom's Wife
1944
Together Again
as Secretary (uncredited)
1944
Hi, Beautiful
as Wife
1944
Dark Mountain
as Aletha Bates
1944
When Strangers Marry
as Chambermaid
1944
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)
1943
Torpedo Boat
as Mrs. Sweeney
1942
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
1941
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)
1940
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1939
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited)
1939
Charlie Chan in Reno
as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
1939
The Jury's Secret
as Miss Montague
1938
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
