
Virginia Sale
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Topper
1937

One Man's Way
1964

Legionnaires in Paris
1927

The Dude Wrangler
1930

Danger Signal
1945

The Thin Man Goes Home
1944

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967

The Flame of New Orleans
1941

Those We Love
1932

Badman's Territory
1946

The Man with Two Faces
1934

The Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947

Miss Polly
1941

Slither
1973

Dark Mountain
1944

Love Past Thirty
1934

The Hat Box Mystery
1947

Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1929

Three Men on a Horse
1936

Embarrassing Moments
1930

Selling Shorts
1931

Smarty
1934

My Past
1931

Gold Dust Gertie
1931

Dangerous Holiday
1937

Madame du Barry
1934

Running Hollywood
1932

Lovin' the Ladies
1930

It's A Small World
1935

Meet the Missus
1937

Back Pay
1930

New Moon
1930

Show Girl in Hollywood
1930

Weary River
1929

Lord Byron of Broadway
1930

Midnight Madness
1928

Harold Teen
1928

Fireman, Save My Child
1932

Together Again
1944

The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931

Bright Lights
1930

After the Dance
1935

Registered Nurse
1934

We Have Our Moments
1937

The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939

Calling All Husbands
1940

Charlie Chan in Reno
1939

Outcast
1937

The Iron Master
1933

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940

Smoke Lightning
1933

Why Be Good?
1929

Star in the Night
1945

Moby Dick
1930

Harvard Here I Come
1941

When Strangers Marry
1944

The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940

Flowing Gold
1940

Strike Up the Band
1940

The Howards of Virginia
1940

You're a Sweetheart
1937

Too Young to Marry
1931

Reveille with Beverly
1943

What a Life
1930

Big Business Girl
1931

Forty Little Mothers
1940

They Died with Their Boots On
1941

Fancy Baggage
1929

Blazing the Western Trail
1945

We're in the Money
1935

The Crowd
1928

Angel's Holiday
1937

The Go-Getter
1937

The Floating College
1928

She Gets Her Man
1945

Below the Deadline
1929

Her First Beau
1941

Loose Ankles
1930

Destroyer
1943

The Jury's Secret
1938

Big Daddy
1969

Gold Rush Maisie
1940

Hit the Ice
1943

Trail Street
1947

Union Depot
1932

Embarrassing Moments
1934

Torpedo Boat
1942

The Gang's All Here
1943

Many a Slip
1931

One Foot in Heaven
1941

I Like it That Way
1934

The Hollywood Handicap
1932

Hi, Beautiful
1944

When Tomorrow Comes
1939

The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
1929

The Andy Griffith Show
1960

The Beverly Hillbillies
1962

Petticoat Junction
1963

Petticoat Junction
1963

The Andy Griffith Show
1960