
Acting
Virginia Sale
Also Known As: Virginia Sales
Birth Date
May 19, 1899
Death Date
August 23, 1992
(passed away at 93)
Place of Birth
Urbana, Illinois, USA
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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.
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The Andy Griffith Show
Woman #1
1960 • 1 episode

The Beverly Hillbillies
Chicken Woman
1962 • 1 episode

Petticoat Junction
Selma Plout
1963 • 6 episodes

They Died with Their Boots On
Nurse (uncredited)
1941

The Gang's All Here
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
1943

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
1967

Strike Up the Band
Music Teacher
1940

The Thin Man Goes Home
Tom's Wife
1944

The Flame of New Orleans
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
1941

Topper
Miss Johnson
1937

The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
1940

The Doctor Takes a Wife
School Teacher (uncredited)
1940

One Foot in Heaven
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
1941

Hit the Ice
Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
1943

Charlie Chan in Reno
Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
1939

Badman's Territory
Meg
1946

The Crowd
Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
1928

Show Girl in Hollywood
Miss J. Rule
1930

When Strangers Marry
Chambermaid
1944

I Like it That Way
Old Maid
1934