Virginia Sale
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 (98 titles)
5.8MovieSlither
Bingo Caller · 1973
8.0MovieBig Daddy
1969
6.7MovieHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Cleaning Woman (uncredited) · 1967
4.3MovieOne Man's Way
Miss S. E. Collingswood · 1964
5.8ShowPetticoat Junction
Selma Plout · 1963
6.9ShowThe Beverly Hillbillies
Chicken Woman · 1962
7.6ShowThe Andy Griffith Show
Woman #1 · 1960
6.5MovieThe Case of the Baby-Sitter
Veronica Hoopler · 1947
4.5MovieThe Hat Box Mystery
Veronica Hoopler · 1947
6.5MovieTrail Street
Hannah · 1947
6.3MovieBadman's Territory
Meg · 1946
6.0MovieDanger Signal
Mrs. Crockett · 1945
7.5MovieStar in the Night
Miss Roberts (uncredited) · 1945
6.3MovieBlazing the Western Trail
Nellie · 1945
5.3MovieShe Gets Her Man
Phoebe · 1945
7.1MovieThe Thin Man Goes Home
Tom's Wife · 1944
5.5MovieTogether Again
Secretary (uncredited) · 1944
9.8MovieHi, Beautiful
Wife · 1944
5.3MovieDark Mountain
Aletha Bates · 1944
6.2MovieWhen Strangers Marry
Chambermaid · 1944
5.9MovieThe Gang's All Here
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited) · 1943
6.8MovieDestroyer
Kansas' Dance Partner · 1943
6.1MovieHit the Ice
Nurse who Faints (uncredited) · 1943
7.5MovieReveille with Beverly
Mrs. Browning (uncredited) · 1943
7.5MovieTorpedo Boat
Mrs. Sweeney · 1942
5.8MovieHarvard Here I Come
Miss Frisbie · 1941
6.7MovieThey Died with Their Boots On
Nurse (uncredited) · 1941
4.9MovieMiss Polly
Orsina Wiggins · 1941
6.9MovieOne Foot in Heaven
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited) · 1941
6.5MovieThe Flame of New Orleans
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa · 1941