Acting
Virginia Sale
EN cinema · 95 credits
Born
19 May 1899
Died
23 August 1992 (aged 93)
Birthplace
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Also known as Virginia Sales
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
Filmography
Slither
as Bingo Caller
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
One Man's Way
as Miss S. E. Collingswood
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
as Veronica Hoopler
The Hat Box Mystery
as Veronica Hoopler
Trail Street
as Hannah
Danger Signal
as Mrs. Crockett
Star in the Night
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
She Gets Her Man
as Phoebe
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Tom's Wife
Dark Mountain
as Aletha Bates
Together Again
as Secretary (uncredited)
When Strangers Marry
as Chambermaid
Hi, Beautiful
as Wife
Reveille with Beverly
as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
Destroyer
as Kansas' Dance Partner
Hit the Ice
as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Torpedo Boat
as Mrs. Sweeney
The Flame of New Orleans
as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Miss Polly
as Orsina Wiggins
Harvard Here I Come
as Miss Frisbie
They Died with Their Boots On
as Nurse (uncredited)
Her First Beau
as Miss Blackmere
One Foot in Heaven
as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
Calling All Husbands
as Aunt Mabel Parker
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
as Landlady (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as School Teacher (uncredited)
Flowing Gold
as Nurse
Strike Up the Band
as Music Teacher
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
Forty Little Mothers
as Miss Fairwell
Gold Rush Maisie
as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Reno
as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited)
The Jury's Secret
as Miss Montague
Topper
as Miss Johnson
Dangerous Holiday
as Aunt Augusta
Meet the Missus
as Mrs. Moseby
We Have Our Moments
as Miss Koltz (uncredited)
Outcast
as Jessica Tuite
You're a Sweetheart
as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Angel's Holiday
as Hatchet-Faced Woman
The Go-Getter
as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
Three Men on a Horse
as Chambermaid
It's A Small World
as Lizzie
After the Dance
as Edna
We're in the Money
as Nanny (uncredited)
The Man with Two Faces
as Peabody
Smarty
as Edna - Vicki's Maid
Madame du Barry
as Sophie, the King's Daughter
Registered Nurse
as Miss Dixon
Embarrassing Moments
as Mother
I Like it That Way
as Old Maid
The Iron Master
as Miss Smith
Smoke Lightning
as Housekeeper Sawyer
Those We Love
as Bertha
Running Hollywood
1932
Running Hollywood
as Virginia Sale
Fireman, Save My Child
as Miss Gallop
Union Depot
as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
My Past
as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Gold Dust Gertie
as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Big Business Girl
as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
Many a Slip
as Smitty
The Dude Wrangler
as Dude Guest
Embarrassing Moments
as Aunt Prudence
Lovin' the Ladies
as Marie - Joan's Maid
Back Pay
as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
New Moon
as Madame Romanski
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Miss J. Rule
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Flirty Dowager
Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter
Moby Dick
as Old Maid
What a Life
as Head Prison Reformer
Loose Ankles
as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Weary River
as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Why Be Good?
as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Fancy Baggage
as Miss Hickey
Below the Deadline
as Mother Biblow
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
as Selma Meyer
Midnight Madness
as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
Harold Teen
as Mrs. Schmittenberger
The Crowd
as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
The Floating College
as Miss Cobbs
