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 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
The Andy Griffith Show
Woman #1
The Andy Griffith Show
Mrs. Beggs
The Beverly Hillbillies
Chicken Woman
Petticoat Junction
Selma Plout
Petticoat Junction
Maude Blake
Slither
Bingo Caller
Miss Polly
Orsina Wiggins
Outcast
Jessica Tuite
Big Daddy
Torpedo Boat
Mrs. Sweeney
Weary River
Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Moby Dick
Old Maid
Flowing Gold
Nurse
My Past
Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Smarty
Edna - Vicki's Maid
Those We Love
Bertha
I Like it That Way
Old Maid
The Gang's All Here
Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Star in the Night
Miss Roberts (uncredited)
We Have Our Moments
Miss Koltz
The Crowd
Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
Love Past Thirty
Nettle
Her First Beau
Miss Blackmere
Harold Teen
Mrs. Schmittenberger
Lord Byron of Broadway
Flirty Dowager
Hit the Ice
Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Gold Dust Gertie
Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Together Again
Secretary (uncredited)
Madame du Barry
Sophie, the King's Daughter
The Go-Getter
Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Reno
Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
Running Hollywood
Virginia Sale
Big Business Girl
Sally Curtin (uncredited)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Landlady (uncredited)
Badman's Territory
Meg
The Dude Wrangler
Dude Guest
Loose Ankles
Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Show Girl in Hollywood
Miss J. Rule
Topper
Miss Johnson
Many a Slip
Smitty
They Died with Their Boots On
Nurse (uncredited)
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
Destroyer
Kansas' Dance Partner
Embarrassing Moments
Aunt Prudence
Trail Street
Hannah
The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
Three Men on a Horse
Chambermaid
Harvard Here I Come
Miss Frisbie
Reveille with Beverly
Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
What a Life
Head Prison Reformer
The Iron Master
Miss Smith
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Smoke Lightning
Housekeeper Sawyer
When Strangers Marry
Chambermaid
The Hollywood Handicap
Calling All Husbands
Aunt Mabel Parker
One Foot in Heaven
Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
Forty Little Mothers
Miss Fairwell
When Tomorrow Comes
Waitress (uncredited)
One Man's Way
Miss S. E. Collingswood
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
The Doctor Takes a Wife
School Teacher (uncredited)
Strike Up the Band
Music Teacher
She Gets Her Man
Phoebe
It's A Small World
Lizzie
Danger Signal
Mrs. Crockett
We're in the Money
Nanny (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
Wife
Dangerous Holiday
Aunt Augusta
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Veronica Hoopler
Meet the Missus
Mrs. Moseby
Registered Nurse
Miss Dixon
Fireman, Save My Child
Miss Gallop
Gold Rush Maisie
Mrs. Harry Gilpin
Below the Deadline
Mother Biblow
Angel's Holiday
Hatchet-Faced Woman
Lovin' the Ladies
Marie - Joan's Maid
The Hat Box Mystery
Veronica Hoopler
The Man with Two Faces
Peabody
Bright Lights
Newspaper reporter
Dark Mountain
Aletha Bates
New Moon
Madame Romanski
Union Depot
Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Why Be Good?
Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
After the Dance
Edna
You're a Sweetheart
Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Back Pay
Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
Blazing the Western Trail
Nellie
The Jury's Secret
Miss Montague
The Floating College
Miss Cobbs
Embarrassing Moments
Mother
Legionnaires in Paris
Fifi
Too Young to Marry
Myra
Midnight Madness
The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
Fancy Baggage
Miss Hickey
Selling Shorts
Dot
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
Selma Meyer