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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 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.
Movies
Topper
Miss Johnson
One Man's Way
Miss S. E. Collingswood
Legionnaires in Paris
Fifi
The Dude Wrangler
Dude Guest
Danger Signal
Mrs. Crockett
The Thin Man Goes Home
Tom's Wife
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
The Flame of New Orleans
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Those We Love
Bertha
Badman's Territory
Meg
The Man with Two Faces
Peabody
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Veronica Hoopler
Miss Polly
Orsina Wiggins
Slither
Bingo Caller
Dark Mountain
Aletha Bates
Love Past Thirty
Nettle
The Hat Box Mystery
Veronica Hoopler
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Three Men on a Horse
Chambermaid
Embarrassing Moments
Aunt Prudence
Selling Shorts
Dot
Smarty
Edna - Vicki's Maid
My Past
Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Gold Dust Gertie
Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Dangerous Holiday
Aunt Augusta
Madame du Barry
Sophie, the King's Daughter
Running Hollywood
Virginia Sale
Lovin' the Ladies
Marie - Joan's Maid
It's A Small World
Lizzie
Meet the Missus
Mrs. Moseby
Back Pay
Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
New Moon
Madame Romanski
Show Girl in Hollywood
Miss J. Rule
Weary River
Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Lord Byron of Broadway
Flirty Dowager
Midnight Madness
The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
Harold Teen
Mrs. Schmittenberger
Fireman, Save My Child
Miss Gallop
Together Again
Secretary (uncredited)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Bright Lights
Newspaper reporter
Registered Nurse
Miss Dixon
After the Dance
Edna
We Have Our Moments
Miss Koltz
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Calling All Husbands
Aunt Mabel Parker
Charlie Chan in Reno
Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
Outcast
Jessica Tuite
The Iron Master
Miss Smith
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Landlady (uncredited)
Smoke Lightning
Housekeeper Sawyer
Why Be Good?
Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Star in the Night
Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Moby Dick
Old Maid
Harvard Here I Come
Miss Frisbie
When Strangers Marry
Chambermaid
The Doctor Takes a Wife
School Teacher (uncredited)
Flowing Gold
Nurse
Strike Up the Band
Music Teacher
The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
You're a Sweetheart
Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Too Young to Marry
Myra
Reveille with Beverly
Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
What a Life
Head Prison Reformer
Big Business Girl
Sally Curtin (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers
Miss Fairwell
They Died with Their Boots On
Nurse (uncredited)
Fancy Baggage
Miss Hickey
Blazing the Western Trail
Nellie
We're in the Money
Nanny (uncredited)
The Crowd
Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
Angel's Holiday
Hatchet-Faced Woman
The Go-Getter
Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
The Floating College
Miss Cobbs
She Gets Her Man
Phoebe
Below the Deadline
Mother Biblow
Her First Beau
Miss Blackmere
Loose Ankles
Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Destroyer
Kansas' Dance Partner
The Jury's Secret
Miss Montague
Big Daddy
Gold Rush Maisie
Mrs. Harry Gilpin
Hit the Ice
Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Trail Street
Hannah
Union Depot
Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Embarrassing Moments
Mother
Torpedo Boat
Mrs. Sweeney
The Gang's All Here
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Many a Slip
Smitty
One Foot in Heaven
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
I Like it That Way
Old Maid
Shows
The Andy Griffith Show
Woman #1
The Beverly Hillbillies
Chicken Woman
Petticoat Junction
Selma Plout
Petticoat Junction
Maude Blake
The Andy Griffith Show
Mrs. Beggs