Virginia Sale
Acting • Born 1899-05-19 – Died 1992-08-23
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.
Filmography
100 credits
Topper
Movie • 1937
Miss Johnson
One Man's Way
Movie • 1964
Miss S. E. Collingswood
Legionnaires in Paris
Movie • 1927
Fifi
The Dude Wrangler
Movie • 1930
Dude Guest
Danger Signal
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Crockett
The Thin Man Goes Home
Movie • 1944
Tom's Wife
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Movie • 1967
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
The Flame of New Orleans
Movie • 1941
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Those We Love
Movie • 1932
Bertha
Badman's Territory
Movie • 1946
Meg
The Man with Two Faces
Movie • 1934
Peabody
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Movie • 1947
Veronica Hoopler
Miss Polly
Movie • 1941
Orsina Wiggins
Slither
Movie • 1973
Bingo Caller
Dark Mountain
Movie • 1944
Aletha Bates
Love Past Thirty
Movie • 1934
Nettle
The Hat Box Mystery
Movie • 1947
Veronica Hoopler
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Movie • 1929
Three Men on a Horse
Movie • 1936
Chambermaid
Embarrassing Moments
Movie • 1930
Aunt Prudence
Selling Shorts
Movie • 1931
Dot
Smarty
Movie • 1934
Edna - Vicki's Maid
My Past
Movie • 1931
Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Gold Dust Gertie
Movie • 1931
Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Dangerous Holiday
Movie • 1937
Aunt Augusta
Madame du Barry
Movie • 1934
Sophie, the King's Daughter
Running Hollywood
Movie • 1932
Virginia Sale
Lovin' the Ladies
Movie • 1930
Marie - Joan's Maid
It's A Small World
Movie • 1935
Lizzie
Meet the Missus
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Moseby
Back Pay
Movie • 1930
Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
New Moon
Movie • 1930
Madame Romanski
Show Girl in Hollywood
Movie • 1930
Miss J. Rule
Weary River
Movie • 1929
Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Lord Byron of Broadway
Movie • 1930
Flirty Dowager
Midnight Madness
Movie • 1928
The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
Harold Teen
Movie • 1928
Mrs. Schmittenberger
Fireman, Save My Child
Movie • 1932
Miss Gallop
Together Again
Movie • 1944
Secretary (uncredited)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie • 1931
Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Bright Lights
Movie • 1930
Newspaper reporter
After the Dance
Movie • 1935
Edna
Registered Nurse
Movie • 1934
Miss Dixon
We Have Our Moments
Movie • 1937
Miss Koltz
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie • 1939
Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Calling All Husbands
Movie • 1940
Aunt Mabel Parker
Charlie Chan in Reno
Movie • 1939
Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
Outcast
Movie • 1937
Jessica Tuite
The Iron Master
Movie • 1933
Miss Smith
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Movie • 1940
Landlady (uncredited)
Smoke Lightning
Movie • 1933
Housekeeper Sawyer
Why Be Good?
Movie • 1929
Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Star in the Night
Movie • 1945
Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Moby Dick
Movie • 1930
Old Maid
Harvard Here I Come
Movie • 1941
Miss Frisbie
When Strangers Marry
Movie • 1944
Chambermaid
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie • 1940
School Teacher (uncredited)
Flowing Gold
Movie • 1940
Nurse
Strike Up the Band
Movie • 1940
Music Teacher
The Howards of Virginia
Movie • 1940
Neighbor Girl
You're a Sweetheart
Movie • 1937
Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Too Young to Marry
Movie • 1931
Myra
Reveille with Beverly
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
What a Life
Movie • 1930
Head Prison Reformer
Big Business Girl
Movie • 1931
Sally Curtin (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers
Movie • 1940
Miss Fairwell
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Nurse (uncredited)
Fancy Baggage
Movie • 1929
Miss Hickey
Blazing the Western Trail
Movie • 1945
Nellie
We're in the Money
Movie • 1935
Nanny (uncredited)
The Crowd
Movie • 1928
Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
Angel's Holiday
Movie • 1937
Hatchet-Faced Woman
The Go-Getter
Movie • 1937
Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
The Floating College
Movie • 1928
Miss Cobbs
She Gets Her Man
Movie • 1945
Phoebe
Below the Deadline
Movie • 1929
Mother Biblow
Her First Beau
Movie • 1941
Miss Blackmere
Loose Ankles
Movie • 1930
Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Destroyer
Movie • 1943
Kansas' Dance Partner
The Jury's Secret
Movie • 1938
Miss Montague
Big Daddy
Movie • 1969
Gold Rush Maisie
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Harry Gilpin
Hit the Ice
Movie • 1943
Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Trail Street
Movie • 1947
Hannah
Union Depot
Movie • 1932
Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Embarrassing Moments
Movie • 1934
Mother
Torpedo Boat
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Sweeney
The Gang's All Here
Movie • 1943
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Many a Slip
Movie • 1931
Smitty
One Foot in Heaven
Movie • 1941
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
I Like it That Way
Movie • 1934
Old Maid
The Hollywood Handicap
Movie • 1932
Hi, Beautiful
Movie • 1944
Wife
When Tomorrow Comes
Movie • 1939
Waitress (uncredited)
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
Movie • 1929
Selma Meyer
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Woman #1
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Chicken Woman
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Selma Plout
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Maude Blake
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Mrs. Beggs