
Virginia Sale
Born: 1899-05-19
Place of Birth: Urbana, Illinois, USA
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

Union Depot

Topper

Fancy Baggage

It's A Small World

Trail Street

Back Pay

Smoke Lightning

The Crowd

Legionnaires in Paris

Danger Signal

Moby Dick

Big Daddy

Miss Polly

Loose Ankles

Torpedo Boat

Outcast

Smarty

Slither

My Past

Harold Teen

Flowing Gold

Together Again

Weary River

The Dude Wrangler

The Case of the Baby-Sitter

Big Business Girl

The Floating College

The Iron Master

Embarrassing Moments

Madame du Barry

Those We Love

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Harvard Here I Come

The Thin Man Goes Home

One Foot in Heaven

They Died with Their Boots On

When Tomorrow Comes

Gold Dust Gertie

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

We Have Our Moments

Lord Byron of Broadway

Destroyer

I Like it That Way

Hit the Ice

The Go-Getter

Her First Beau

Show Girl in Hollywood

What a Life

Calling All Husbands

The Howards of Virginia

Badman's Territory

Many a Slip

The Man with Two Faces

Charlie Chan in Reno

The Gang's All Here

She Gets Her Man

New Moon

One Man's Way

Star in the Night

We're in the Money

The Doctor Takes a Wife

After the Dance

Forty Little Mothers

Reveille with Beverly

Meet the Missus

When Strangers Marry

Gold Rush Maisie

Below the Deadline

Strike Up the Band

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Fireman, Save My Child

The Flame of New Orleans

Why Be Good?

Hi, Beautiful

Lovin' the Ladies

You're a Sweetheart

Too Young to Marry

Three Men on a Horse

Dark Mountain

Angel's Holiday

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Midnight Madness

Embarrassing Moments

Registered Nurse

The Jury's Secret

Dangerous Holiday

Bright Lights

The Hat Box Mystery
