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.
Acted in 93
1970s
- 1973
Slither
Bingo Caller
1960s
- 1969
Big Daddy
Movie
- 1967
- 1964
One Man's Way
Miss S. E. Collingswood
- 1963
- 1962
- 1960
1940s
- 1947
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Veronica Hoopler
The Hat Box Mystery
Veronica Hoopler
- 1946
- 1945
Danger Signal
Mrs. Crockett
Star in the Night
Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Blazing the Western Trail
Nellie
She Gets Her Man
Phoebe
- 1944
Together Again
Secretary (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
Wife
Dark Mountain
Aletha Bates
When Strangers Marry
Chambermaid
- 1943
The Gang's All Here
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Destroyer
Kansas' Dance Partner
Hit the Ice
Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
- 1942
Torpedo Boat
Mrs. Sweeney
- 1941
Harvard Here I Come
Miss Frisbie
Miss Polly
Orsina Wiggins
One Foot in Heaven
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
The Flame of New Orleans
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Her First Beau
Miss Blackmere
- 1940
The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
Calling All Husbands
Aunt Mabel Parker
Flowing Gold
Nurse
Gold Rush Maisie
Mrs. Harry Gilpin
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Landlady (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers
Miss Fairwell
The Doctor Takes a Wife
School Teacher (uncredited)
1930s
- 1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
When Tomorrow Comes
Waitress (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Reno
Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
- 1938
The Jury's Secret
Miss Montague
- 1937
You're a Sweetheart
Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Angel's Holiday
Hatchet-Faced Woman
Dangerous Holiday
Aunt Augusta
Meet the Missus
Mrs. Moseby
The Go-Getter
Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
We Have Our Moments
Miss Koltz (uncredited)
Outcast
Jessica Tuite
- 1936
Three Men on a Horse
Chambermaid
- 1935
We're in the Money
Nanny (uncredited)
After the Dance
Edna
It's A Small World
Lizzie
- 1934
Madame du Barry
Sophie, the King's Daughter
The Man with Two Faces
Peabody
Smarty
Edna - Vicki's Maid
Registered Nurse
Miss Dixon
I Like it That Way
Old Maid
- 1933
The Iron Master
Miss Smith
Smoke Lightning
Housekeeper Sawyer
- 1932
Those We Love
Bertha
Fireman, Save My Child
Miss Gallop
Union Depot
Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
- 1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Gold Dust Gertie
Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Big Business Girl
Sally Curtin (uncredited)
My Past
Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Too Young to Marry
Myra
Many a Slip
Smitty
- 1930
New Moon
Madame Romanski
Bright Lights
Newspaper reporter
The Dude Wrangler
Dude Guest
Back Pay
Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
Lovin' the Ladies
Marie - Joan's Maid
What a Life
Head Prison Reformer
Loose Ankles
Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Embarrassing Moments
Aunt Prudence
1920s
- 1929
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
Selma Meyer
Why Be Good?
Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Weary River
Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Fancy Baggage
Miss Hickey
Below the Deadline
Mother Biblow
- 1928
The Floating College
Miss Cobbs
Harold Teen
Mrs. Schmittenberger
Midnight Madness
The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
- 1927
Legionnaires in Paris
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