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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 19, 1899
Died
August 23, 1992
Place of Birth
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Virginia Sales
Virginia Sale
0.2 Popularity
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
5.8
Bingo Caller
Slither
1973
0.0
Big Daddy
1969
6.8
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967
4.0
Miss S. E. Collingswood
One Man's Way
1964
5.8
Selma Plout
Petticoat Junction
1963
5.8
Maude Blake
Petticoat Junction
1963
6.8
Chicken Woman
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
7.6
Woman #1
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
7.6
Mrs. Beggs
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
4.0
Veronica Hoopler
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947
Credits
Slither
as Bingo Caller
1973
5.8
Big Daddy
1969
0.0
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
1967
6.8
One Man's Way
as Miss S. E. Collingswood
1964
4.0
Petticoat Junction
as Selma Plout
1963
5.8
Petticoat Junction
as Maude Blake
1963
5.8
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Chicken Woman
1962
6.8
The Andy Griffith Show
as Woman #1
1960
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
as Mrs. Beggs
1960
7.6
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
as Veronica Hoopler
1947
4.0
The Hat Box Mystery
as Veronica Hoopler
1947
4.2
Trail Street
as Hannah
1947
6.4
Badman's Territory
as Meg
1946
5.7
Danger Signal
as Mrs. Crockett
1945
5.8
Star in the Night
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
1945
7.4
Blazing the Western Trail
as Nellie
1945
5.6
She Gets Her Man
as Phoebe
1945
3.7
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Tom's Wife
1944
7.1
Together Again
as Secretary (uncredited)
1944
5.4
Hi, Beautiful
as Wife
1944
9.5
Dark Mountain
as Aletha Bates
1944
4.9
When Strangers Marry
as Chambermaid
1944
6.1
The Gang's All Here
as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
1943
5.8
Destroyer
as Kansas' Dance Partner
1943
6.6
Hit the Ice
as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
1943
5.9
Reveille with Beverly
as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
1943
7.0
Torpedo Boat
as Mrs. Sweeney
1942
6.0
Harvard Here I Come
as Miss Frisbie
1941
5.0
They Died with Their Boots On
as Nurse (uncredited)
1941
6.6
Miss Polly
as Orsina Wiggins
1941
5.0
One Foot in Heaven
as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
1941
6.6
The Flame of New Orleans
as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
1941
6.3
Her First Beau
as Miss Blackmere
1941
5.0
Strike Up the Band
as Music Teacher
1940
6.2
The Howards of Virginia
as Neighbor Girl
1940
6.5
Calling All Husbands
as Aunt Mabel Parker
1940
6.0
Flowing Gold
as Nurse
1940
7.0
Gold Rush Maisie
as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
1940
6.5
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
as Landlady (uncredited)
1940
6.0
Forty Little Mothers
as Miss Fairwell
1940
6.2
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as School Teacher (uncredited)
1940
6.4
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1939
5.8
Charlie Chan in Reno
as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
1939
6.2
The Jury's Secret
as Miss Montague
1938
4.5
You're a Sweetheart
as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
1937
4.2
Topper
as Miss Johnson
1937
6.7
Angel's Holiday
as Hatchet-Faced Woman
1937
5.5
Dangerous Holiday
as Aunt Augusta
1937
1.0
Meet the Missus
as Mrs. Moseby
1937
4.0
The Go-Getter
as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
1937
5.8
We Have Our Moments
as Miss Koltz
1937
5.8
Outcast
as Jessica Tuite
1937
0.0
Three Men on a Horse
as Chambermaid
1936
6.2
We're in the Money
as Nanny (uncredited)
1935
5.5
After the Dance
as Edna
1935
6.0
It's A Small World
as Lizzie
1935
4.5
Madame du Barry
as Sophie, the King's Daughter
1934
4.8
Embarrassing Moments
as Mother
1934
0.0
The Man with Two Faces
as Peabody
1934
6.5
Smarty
as Edna - Vicki's Maid
1934
4.4
Registered Nurse
as Miss Dixon
1934
4.6
I Like it That Way
as Old Maid
1934
7.0
🎬
Love Past Thirty
as Nettle
1934
0.0
The Iron Master
as Miss Smith
1933
0.0
Smoke Lightning
as Housekeeper Sawyer
1933
3.5
Those We Love
as Bertha
1932
6.0
🎬
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
0.0
Fireman, Save My Child
as Miss Gallop
1932
5.0
🎬
Running Hollywood
as Virginia Sale
1932
0.0
Union Depot
as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
1932
6.1
🎬
Selling Shorts
as Dot
1931
0.0
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
1931
5.9
Gold Dust Gertie
as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
1931
3.0
Big Business Girl
as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
1931
6.0
My Past
as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
1931
3.8
Too Young to Marry
as Myra
1931
0.0
Many a Slip
as Smitty
1931
0.0
New Moon
as Madame Romanski
1930
4.3
Bright Lights
as Newspaper reporter
1930
4.0
Moby Dick
as Old Maid
1930
5.3
The Dude Wrangler
as Dude Guest
1930
0.0
Back Pay
as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
1930
4.0
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Miss J. Rule
1930
5.8
Lovin' the Ladies
as Marie - Joan's Maid
1930
3.0
What a Life
as Head Prison Reformer
1930
0.0
Lord Byron of Broadway
as Flirty Dowager
1930
4.7
Loose Ankles
as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
1930
4.4
Embarrassing Moments
as Aunt Prudence
1930
0.0
🎬
Stewed, Fried and Boiled
1929
0.0
Why Be Good?
as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
1929
6.5
Weary River
as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
1929
5.7
Fancy Baggage
as Miss Hickey
1929
0.0
Below the Deadline
as Mother Biblow
1929
1.0
The Floating College
as Miss Cobbs
1928
0.0
Harold Teen
as Mrs. Schmittenberger
1928
7.0
Midnight Madness
as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
1928
0.0
The Crowd
as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
1928
7.6
🎬
Legionnaires in Paris
as Fifi
1927
0.0