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.
No. | Year | Title | Role | Vote Average |
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1 | 1927 | Fifi | 0 | |
2 | 1928 | Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited) | 76 | |
3 | 1928 | The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary | 0 | |
4 | 1928 | Mrs. Schmittenberger | 70 | |
5 | 1928 | Miss Cobbs | 0 | |
6 | 1929 | Mother Biblow | 10 | |
7 | 1929 | Miss Hickey | 0 | |
8 | 1929 | Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited) | 55 | |
9 | 1929 | Junior's Secretary (uncredited) | 65 | |
10 | 1929 | 0 | ||
11 | 1930 | Aunt Prudence | 0 | |
12 | 1930 | Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla | 44 | |
13 | 1930 | Flirty Dowager | 47 | |
14 | 1930 | Head Prison Reformer | 0 | |
15 | 1930 | Marie - Joan's Maid | 30 | |
16 | 1930 | Miss J. Rule | 58 | |
17 | 1930 | Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary | 40 | |
18 | 1930 | Dude Guest | 0 | |
19 | 1930 | Old Maid | 53 | |
20 | 1930 | Newspaper reporter | 40 | |
21 | 1930 | Madame Romanski | 43 | |
22 | 1931 | Smitty | 0 | |
23 | 1931 | Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary | 38 | |
24 | 1931 | Myra | 0 | |
25 | 1931 | Sally Curtin (uncredited) | 55 | |
26 | 1931 | Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit | 30 | |
27 | 1931 | Charity Ward Nun (uncredited) | 59 | |
28 | 1931 | Dot | 0 | |
29 | 1932 | Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited) | 61 | |
30 | 1932 | Virginia Sale | 0 | |
31 | 1932 | Miss Gallop | 50 | |
32 | 1932 | Bertha | 60 | |
33 | 1933 | Housekeeper Sawyer | 35 | |
34 | 1933 | Miss Smith | 0 | |
35 | 1934 | Nettle | 0 | |
36 | 1934 | Old Maid | 70 | |
37 | 1934 | Miss Dixon | 46 | |
38 | 1934 | Edna - Vicki's Maid | 40 | |
39 | 1934 | Peabody | 65 | |
40 | 1934 | Mother | 0 | |
41 | 1934 | Sophie, the King's Daughter | 48 | |
42 | 1935 | Lizzie | 45 | |
43 | 1935 | Edna | 60 | |
44 | 1935 | Nanny (uncredited) | 55 | |
45 | 1936 | Chambermaid | 62 | |
46 | 1937 | Jessica Tuite | 0 | |
47 | 1937 | Miss Koltz | 58 | |
48 | 1937 | Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited) | 58 | |
49 | 1937 | Mrs. Moseby | 40 | |
50 | 1937 | Aunt Augusta | 0 | |
51 | 1937 | Hatchet-Faced Woman | 55 | |
52 | 1937 | Miss Johnson | 67 | |
53 | 1937 | Gawking Wife (uncredited) | 40 | |
54 | 1938 | Miss Montague | 30 | |
55 | 1939 | Maid Reporting Missing Passkey | 62 | |
56 | 1939 | Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited) | 58 | |
57 | 1940 | School Teacher (uncredited) | 65 | |
58 | 1940 | Miss Fairwell | 62 | |
59 | 1940 | Landlady (uncredited) | 60 | |
60 | 1940 | Mrs. Harry Gilpin | 65 | |
61 | 1940 | Nurse | 70 | |
62 | 1940 | Aunt Mabel Parker | 60 | |
63 | 1940 | Neighbor Girl | 64 | |
64 | 1940 | Music Teacher | 62 | |
65 | 1941 | Miss Blackmere | 50 | |
66 | 1941 | Giraud's Cousin Clarissa | 60 | |
67 | 1941 | Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited) | 66 | |
68 | 1941 | Orsina Wiggins | 50 | |
69 | 1941 | Nurse (uncredited) | 66 | |
70 | 1941 | Miss Frisbie | 50 | |
71 | 1942 | Mrs. Sweeney | 60 | |
72 | 1943 | Mrs. Browning (uncredited) | 70 | |
73 | 1943 | Nurse who Faints (uncredited) | 59 | |
74 | 1943 | Kansas' Dance Partner | 66 | |
75 | 1943 | Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited) | 58 | |
76 | 1944 | Chambermaid | 61 | |
77 | 1944 | Aletha Bates | 53 | |
78 | 1944 | Secretary | 54 | |
79 | 1944 | Tom's Wife | 71 | |
80 | 1945 | Phoebe | 37 | |
81 | 1945 | Nellie | 56 | |
82 | 1945 | Miss Roberts (uncredited) | 72 | |
83 | 1945 | Mrs. Crockett | 58 | |
84 | 1946 | Meg | 58 | |
85 | 1947 | Hannah | 64 | |
86 | 1947 | Veronica Hoopler | 42 | |
87 | 1947 | Veronica Hoopler | 40 | |
88 | 1964 | Miss S. E. Collingswood | 40 | |
89 | 1967 | Cleaning Woman (uncredited) | 68 | |
90 | 1969 | 0 | ||
91 | 1973 | Bingo Caller | 57 |
No. | Year | Title | Role | Vote Average |
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1 | 1960 | Woman #1 | 76 | |
2 | 1960 | Mrs. Beggs | 76 | |
3 | 1962 | Chicken Woman | 69 | |
4 | 1963 | Selma Plout | 59 | |
5 | 1963 | Maude Blake | 59 |