Virginia Sale
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1899-05-19
Day of Death
1992-08-23 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Urbana, Illinois, USA
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
Acting
(1973)
Slither
as Bingo Caller
(1969)
(1967)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
(1964)
One Man's Way
as Miss S. E. Collingswood
(1947)
Trail Street
as Hannah
(1947)
The Hat Box Mystery
as Veronica Hoopler
(1947)
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
as Veronica Hoopler
(1946)
Badman's Territory
as Meg
(1945)
Danger Signal
as Mrs. Crockett
(1945)
Star in the Night
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
(1945)
She Gets Her Man
as Phoebe
(1945)
Blazing the Western Trail
as Nellie
(1944)
Dark Mountain
as Aletha Bates
(1944)
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Tom's Wife
(1944)
When Strangers Marry
as Chambermaid
(1944)
Together Again
as Secretary (uncredited)
(1943)
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)
(1942)
Torpedo Boat
as Mrs. Sweeney
(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)
Harvard Here I Come
as Miss Frisbie
(1940)
Gold Rush Maisie
as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
(1940)
Strike Up the Band
as Music Teacher
(1940)
Flowing Gold
as Nurse
(1940)
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
(1940)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as School Teacher (uncredited)
(1940)
Forty Little Mothers
as Miss Fairwell
(1940)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
as Landlady (uncredited)
(1940)
Calling All Husbands
as Aunt Mabel Parker
(1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
(1939)
Charlie Chan in Reno
as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
(1938)
The Jury's Secret
as Miss Montague
(1937)
Topper
as Miss Johnson
(1937)
Outcast
as Jessica Tuite
(1937)
We Have Our Moments
as Miss Koltz
(1937)
You're a Sweetheart
as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
(1937)
The Go-Getter
as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
(1937)
Angel's Holiday
as Hatchet-Faced Woman
(1937)
Dangerous Holiday
as Aunt Augusta
(1937)
Meet the Missus
as Mrs. Moseby
(1936)
Three Men on a Horse
as Chambermaid
(1935)
It's A Small World
as Lizzie
(1935)
We're in the Money
as Nanny (uncredited)
(1935)
After the Dance
as Edna
(1934)
The Man with Two Faces
as Peabody
(1934)
Smarty
as Edna - Vicki's Maid
(1934)
Registered Nurse
as Miss Dixon
(1934)
I Like it That Way
as Old Maid
(1934)
Embarrassing Moments
as Mother
(1934)
Madame du Barry
as Sophie, the King's Daughter
(1934)
Love Past Thirty
as Nettle
(1933)
Smoke Lightning
as Housekeeper Sawyer
(1933)
The Iron Master
as Miss Smith
(1932)
Union Depot
as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
(1932)
Running Hollywood
as Virginia Sale
(1932)
Fireman, Save My Child
as Miss Gallop
(1932)
Those We Love
as Bertha
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
(1931)
Big Business Girl
as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
(1931)
My Past
as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
(1931)
Gold Dust Gertie
as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
(1931)
Many a Slip
as Smitty
(1931)
Too Young to Marry
as Myra
(1931)
Selling Shorts
as Dot
(1930)
Loose Ankles
as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
(1930)
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Miss J. Rule
(1930)
Moby Dick
as Old Maid
(1930)
Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter
(1930)
New Moon
as Madame Romanski
(1930)
Embarrassing Moments
as Aunt Prudence
(1930)
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Flirty Dowager
(1930)
Lovin' the Ladies
as Marie - Joan's Maid
(1930)
Back Pay
as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
(1930)
The Dude Wrangler
as Dude Guest
(1930)
What a Life
as Head Prison Reformer
(1929)
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)
(1928)
The Crowd
as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
(1928)
Midnight Madness
as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
(1928)
Harold Teen
as Mrs. Schmittenberger
(1928)
The Floating College
as Miss Cobbs
(1927)
Legionnaires in Paris
as Fifi