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.
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 Case of the Baby-Sitter
as Veronica Hoopler
(1947)
The Hat Box Mystery
as Veronica Hoopler
(1946)
Badman's Territory
as Meg
(1945)
Star in the Night
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
(1945)
Danger Signal
as Mrs. Crockett
(1945)
She Gets Her Man
as Phoebe
(1945)
Blazing the Western Trail
as Nellie
(1944)
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Tom's Wife
(1944)
Together Again
as Secretary (uncredited)
(1944)
When Strangers Marry
as Chambermaid
(1944)
Hi, Beautiful
as Wife
(1944)
Dark Mountain
as Aletha Bates
(1943)
Reveille with Beverly
as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
(1943)
Destroyer
as Kansas' Dance Partner
(1943)
Hit the Ice
as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
(1943)
The Gang's All Here
as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
(1942)
Torpedo Boat
as Mrs. Sweeney
(1941)
One Foot in Heaven
as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
(1941)
They Died with Their Boots On
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1941)
The Flame of New Orleans
as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
(1941)
Miss Polly
as Orsina Wiggins
(1941)
Harvard Here I Come
as Miss Frisbie
(1941)
Her First Beau
as Miss Blackmere
(1940)
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
(1940)
Strike Up the Band
as Music Teacher
(1940)
Gold Rush Maisie
as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
(1940)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as School Teacher (uncredited)
(1940)
Forty Little Mothers
as Miss Fairwell
(1940)
Flowing Gold
as Nurse
(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
(1939)
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited)
(1938)
The Jury's Secret
as Miss Montague
(1937)
Dangerous Holiday
as Aunt Augusta
(1937)
Topper
as Miss Johnson
(1937)
Outcast
as Jessica Tuite
(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)
Meet the Missus
as Mrs. Moseby
(1937)
We Have Our Moments
as Miss Koltz
(1936)
Three Men on a Horse
as Chambermaid
(1935)
It's A Small World
as Lizzie
(1935)
After the Dance
as Edna
(1935)
We're in the Money
as Nanny (uncredited)
(1934)
Madame du Barry
as Sophie, the King's Daughter
(1934)
Smarty
as Edna - Vicki's Maid
(1934)
Love Past Thirty
as Nettle
(1934)
I Like it That Way
as Old Maid
(1934)
The Man with Two Faces
as Peabody
(1934)
Embarrassing Moments
as Mother
(1934)
Registered Nurse
as Miss Dixon
(1933)
The Iron Master
as Miss Smith
(1933)
Smoke Lightning
as Housekeeper Sawyer
(1932)
Union Depot
as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
(1932)
Running Hollywood
as Virginia Sale
(1932)
Those We Love
as Bertha
(1932)
Fireman, Save My Child
as Miss Gallop
(1932)
(1931)
Many a Slip
as Smitty
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
(1931)
Gold Dust Gertie
as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
(1931)
My Past
as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
(1931)
Too Young to Marry
as Myra
(1931)
Big Business Girl
as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
(1931)
Selling Shorts
as Dot
(1930)
New Moon
as Madame Romanski
(1930)
Back Pay
as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
(1930)
Loose Ankles
as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
(1930)
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Flirty Dowager
(1930)
Moby Dick
as Old Maid
(1930)
Lovin' the Ladies
as Marie - Joan's Maid
(1930)
The Dude Wrangler
as Dude Guest
(1930)
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Miss J. Rule
(1930)
What a Life
as Head Prison Reformer
(1930)
Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter
(1930)
Embarrassing Moments
as Aunt Prudence
(1929)
Weary River
as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
(1929)
Why Be Good?
as Junior's Secretary (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)
The Floating College
as Miss Cobbs
(1928)
Midnight Madness
as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
(1928)
Harold Teen
as Mrs. Schmittenberger
(1927)
Legionnaires in Paris
as Fifi