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.
Movie | Slither | Bingo Caller | 1973-03-07 |
Movie | Big Daddy | 1969-06-11 | |
Movie | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Cleaning Woman (uncredited) | 1967-03-09 |
Movie | One Man's Way | Miss S. E. Collingswood | 1964-02-26 |
Movie | Trail Street | Hannah | 1947-02-19 |
Movie | The Case of the Baby-Sitter | Veronica Hoopler | 1947-07-26 |
Movie | The Hat Box Mystery | Veronica Hoopler | 1947-06-12 |
Movie | Badman's Territory | Meg | 1946-05-04 |
Movie | Blazing the Western Trail | Nellie | 1945-09-08 |
Movie | She Gets Her Man | Phoebe | 1945-01-12 |
Movie | Star in the Night | Miss Roberts (uncredited) | 1945-10-13 |
Movie | Danger Signal | Mrs. Crockett | 1945-11-21 |
Movie | Dark Mountain | Aletha Bates | 1944-09-01 |
Movie | When Strangers Marry | Chambermaid | 1944-08-21 |
Movie | Together Again | Secretary (uncredited) | 1944-12-23 |
Movie | The Thin Man Goes Home | Tom's Wife | 1944-12-24 |
Movie | Reveille with Beverly | Mrs. Browning (uncredited) | 1943-02-04 |
Movie | Hit the Ice | Nurse who Faints (uncredited) | 1943-06-02 |
Movie | The Gang's All Here | Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited) | 1943-12-24 |
Movie | Destroyer | Kansas' Dance Partner | 1943-08-19 |
Movie | Torpedo Boat | Mrs. Sweeney | 1942-01-24 |
Movie | Harvard Here I Come | Miss Frisbie | 1941-12-18 |
Movie | Her First Beau | Miss Blackmere | 1941-05-08 |
Movie | One Foot in Heaven | Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited) | 1941-11-01 |
Movie | The Flame of New Orleans | Giraud's Cousin Clarissa | 1941-07-07 |
Movie | Miss Polly | Orsina Wiggins | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | They Died with Their Boots On | Nurse (uncredited) | 1941-11-20 |
Movie | I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby | Landlady (uncredited) | 1940-05-01 |
Movie | The Doctor Takes a Wife | School Teacher (uncredited) | 1940-04-25 |
Movie | Forty Little Mothers | Miss Fairwell | 1940-04-26 |
Movie | Gold Rush Maisie | Mrs. Harry Gilpin | 1940-07-26 |
Movie | Strike Up the Band | Music Teacher | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | Flowing Gold | Nurse | 1940-08-24 |
Movie | The Howards of Virginia | Neighbor Girl | 1940-09-19 |
Movie | Calling All Husbands | Aunt Mabel Parker | 1940-09-07 |
Movie | Charlie Chan in Reno | Maid Reporting Missing Passkey | 1939-06-16 |
Movie | When Tomorrow Comes | Waitress | 1939-08-11 |
Movie | The Amazing Mr. Williams | Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited) | 1939-11-22 |
Movie | The Jury's Secret | Miss Montague | 1938-01-16 |
Movie | Meet the Missus | Mrs. Moseby | 1937-06-04 |
Movie | Outcast | Jessica Tuite | 1937-02-05 |
Movie | We Have Our Moments | Miss Koltz | 1937-03-28 |
Movie | The Go-Getter | Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited) | 1937-05-22 |
Movie | Dangerous Holiday | Aunt Augusta | 1937-06-06 |
Movie | You're a Sweetheart | Gawking Wife (uncredited) | 1937-12-26 |
Movie | Topper | Miss Johnson | 1937-07-16 |
Movie | Angel's Holiday | Hatchet-Faced Woman | 1937-06-07 |
Movie | Three Men on a Horse | Chambermaid | 1936-11-21 |
Movie | It's A Small World | Lizzie | 1935-04-12 |
Movie | We're in the Money | Nanny (uncredited) | 1935-08-17 |
Movie | After the Dance | Edna | 1935-06-25 |
Movie | I Like it That Way | Old Maid | 1934-04-01 |
Movie | Registered Nurse | Miss Dixon | 1934-04-06 |
Movie | Love Past Thirty | Nettle | 1934-02-14 |
Movie | Smarty | Edna - Vicki's Maid | 1934-05-19 |
Movie | Madame du Barry | Sophie, the King's Daughter | 1934-10-13 |
Movie | Embarrassing Moments | Mother | 1934-09-01 |
Movie | The Man with Two Faces | Peabody | 1934-08-04 |
Movie | Smoke Lightning | Housekeeper Sawyer | 1933-01-01 |
Movie | The Iron Master | Miss Smith | 1933-02-04 |
Movie | Union Depot | Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited) | 1932-01-14 |
Movie | Running Hollywood | Virginia Sale | 1932-01-27 |
Movie | Those We Love | Bertha | 1932-09-11 |
Movie | Fireman, Save My Child | Miss Gallop | 1932-02-20 |
Movie | Too Young to Marry | Myra | 1931-05-03 |
Movie | Many a Slip | Smitty | 1931-03-02 |
Movie | My Past | Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary | 1931-05-03 |
Movie | Gold Dust Gertie | Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit | 1931-06-27 |
Movie | Selling Shorts | Dot | 1931-11-29 |
Movie | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Charity Ward Nun (uncredited) | 1931-10-23 |
Movie | Big Business Girl | Sally Curtin (uncredited) | 1931-06-12 |
Movie | Lovin' the Ladies | Marie - Joan's Maid | 1930-04-06 |
Movie | Loose Ankles | Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla | 1930-02-02 |
Movie | Show Girl in Hollywood | Miss J. Rule | 1930-04-20 |
Movie | Lord Byron of Broadway | Flirty Dowager | 1930-02-28 |
Movie | What a Life | Head Prison Reformer | 1930-03-15 |
Movie | Back Pay | Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary | 1930-06-01 |
Movie | New Moon | Madame Romanski | 1930-12-23 |
Movie | Bright Lights | Newspaper reporter | 1930-09-21 |
Movie | The Dude Wrangler | Dude Guest | 1930-07-01 |
Movie | Moby Dick | Old Maid | 1930-09-20 |
Movie | Fancy Baggage | Miss Hickey | 1929-01-26 |
Movie | Below the Deadline | Mother Biblow | 1929-01-02 |
Movie | Weary River | Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited) | 1929-02-10 |
Movie | Why Be Good? | Junior's Secretary (uncredited) | 1929-02-28 |
Movie | The Crowd | Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited) | 1928-03-03 |
Movie | Midnight Madness | The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary | 1928-03-25 |
Movie | Harold Teen | Mrs. Schmittenberger | 1928-04-28 |
Movie | The Floating College | Miss Cobbs | 1928-11-10 |
Movie | Legionnaires in Paris | Fifi | 1927-12-23 |