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Virginia Sale
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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 …
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Virginia Sale's Filmography
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Slither
as Bingo Caller
Big Daddy
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
Badman's Territory
as Meg
Danger Signal
as Mrs. Crockett
Star in the Night
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Blazing the Western Trail
as Nellie
She Gets Her Man
as Phoebe
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Tom's Wife
Together Again
as Secretary (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
as Wife
Dark Mountain
as Aletha Bates
When Strangers Marry
as Chambermaid
The Gang's All Here
as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Destroyer
as Kansas' Dance Partner
Hit the Ice
as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
Torpedo Boat
as Mrs. Sweeney
Harvard Here I Come
as Miss Frisbie
They Died with Their Boots On
as Nurse (uncredited)
Miss Polly
as Orsina Wiggins
One Foot in Heaven
as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
The Flame of New Orleans
as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Her First Beau
as Miss Blackmere
Strike Up the Band
as Music Teacher
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
Calling All Husbands
as Aunt Mabel Parker
Flowing Gold
as Nurse
Gold Rush Maisie
as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
as Landlady (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers
as Miss Fairwell
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as School Teacher (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
When Tomorrow Comes
as Waitress (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Reno
as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
The Jury's Secret
as Miss Montague
You're a Sweetheart
as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Topper
as Miss Johnson
Angel's Holiday
as Hatchet-Faced Woman
Dangerous Holiday
as Aunt Augusta
Meet the Missus
as Mrs. Moseby
The Go-Getter
as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
We Have Our Moments
as Miss Koltz (uncredited)
Outcast
as Jessica Tuite
Three Men on a Horse
as Chambermaid
We're in the Money
as Nanny (uncredited)
After the Dance
as Edna
It's A Small World
as Lizzie
Madame du Barry
as Sophie, the King's Daughter
Embarrassing Moments
as Mother
The Man with Two Faces
as Peabody
Smarty
as Edna - Vicki's Maid
Registered Nurse
as Miss Dixon
I Like it That Way
as Old Maid
No Poster
Love Past Thirty
as Nettle
The Iron Master
as Miss Smith
Smoke Lightning
as Housekeeper Sawyer
Those We Love
as Bertha
No Poster
The Hollywood Handicap
Fireman, Save My Child
as Miss Gallop
No Poster
Running Hollywood
as Virginia Sale
Union Depot
as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
No Poster
Selling Shorts
as Dot
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Gold Dust Gertie
as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Big Business Girl
as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
Too Young to Marry
as Myra
My Past
as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Many a Slip
as Smitty
New Moon
as Madame Romanski
Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter
Moby Dick
as Old Maid
The Dude Wrangler
as Dude Guest
Back Pay
as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Miss J. Rule
Lovin' the Ladies
as Marie - Joan's Maid
What a Life
as Head Prison Reformer
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Flirty Dowager
Loose Ankles
as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Embarrassing Moments
as Aunt Prudence
No Poster
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
as Selma Meyer
Why Be Good?
as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Weary River
as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Fancy Baggage
as Miss Hickey
Below the Deadline
as Mother Biblow
The Floating College
as Miss Cobbs
Harold Teen
as Mrs. Schmittenberger
Midnight Madness
as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
The Crowd
as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
Legionnaires in Paris
as Fifi