Virginia Sale
Biography
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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.
Filmography
Slither
1973
as Bingo Caller
Big Daddy
1969
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
One Man's Way
1964
as Miss S. E. Collingswood
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947
as Veronica Hoopler
The Hat Box Mystery
1947
as Veronica Hoopler
Trail Street
1947
as Hannah
Badman's Territory
1946
as Meg
Danger Signal
1945
as Mrs. Crockett
Star in the Night
1945
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Blazing the Western Trail
1945
as Nellie
She Gets Her Man
1945
as Phoebe
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
as Tom's Wife
Together Again
1944
as Secretary (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
1944
as Wife
Dark Mountain
1944
as Aletha Bates
When Strangers Marry
1944
as Chambermaid
The Gang's All Here
1943
as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Destroyer
1943
as Kansas' Dance Partner
Hit the Ice
1943
as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
1943
as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
Torpedo Boat
1942
as Mrs. Sweeney
Harvard Here I Come
1941
as Miss Frisbie
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Nurse (uncredited)