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.

Known For

Birth Location Urbana, Illinois, USA
Born 1899-05-19
Died 1992-08-23

Movies

Slither as Bingo Caller
1973
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
1946
Danger Signal as Mrs. Crockett
1945
Star in the Night as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
1945
1945
She Gets Her Man as Phoebe
1945
The Thin Man Goes Home as Tom's Wife
1944
Together Again as Secretary (uncredited)
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
1940
The Amazing Mr. Williams as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (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
Outcast as Jessica Tuite
1937
Three Men on a Horse as Chambermaid
1936
We're in the Money as Nanny (uncredited)
1935
After the Dance as Edna
1935
It's A Small World as Lizzie
1935
Madame du Barry as Sophie, the King's Daughter
1934
1934
1934
Smarty as Edna - Vicki's Maid
1934
Registered Nurse as Miss Dixon
1934
I Like it That Way as Old Maid
1934
Love Past Thirty as Nettle
1934
The Iron Master as Miss Smith
1933
Smoke Lightning as Housekeeper Sawyer
1933
Those We Love as Bertha
1932
Fireman, Save My Child as Miss Gallop
1932
Running Hollywood as Virginia Sale
1932
Union Depot as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
1932
1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
1931
Gold Dust Gertie as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
1931
Big Business Girl as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
1931
1931
My Past as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
1931
Many a Slip as Smitty
1931
New Moon as Madame Romanski
1930
Bright Lights as Newspaper reporter
1930
Moby Dick as Old Maid
1930
The Dude Wrangler as Dude Guest
1930
Back Pay as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
1930
Show Girl in Hollywood as Miss J. Rule
1930
Lovin' the Ladies as Marie - Joan's Maid
1930
What a Life as Head Prison Reformer
1930
Lord Byron of Broadway as Flirty Dowager
1930
Loose Ankles as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
1930
Embarrassing Moments as Aunt Prudence
1930
Why Be Good? as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
1929
Weary River as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
1929
Fancy Baggage as Miss Hickey
1929
Below the Deadline as Mother Biblow
1929
The Floating College as Miss Cobbs
1928
Harold Teen as Mrs. Schmittenberger
1928
Midnight Madness as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
1928
The Crowd as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
1928
1927
Virginia Sale hasn't worked on any movies or TV shows