Virginia Sale

Acting

Born: 1899-05-19 in 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.

Virginia Sale

Biography

Known For

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show

The Beverly Hillbillies

Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction

Topper

Big Daddy

Hit the Ice

The Crowd

The Thin Man Goes Home

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Harold Teen

They Died with Their Boots On

Trail Street

The Gang's All Here

Outcast

Moby Dick

We Have Our Moments

Badman's Territory

The Flame of New Orleans

Embarrassing Moments

Union Depot

When Tomorrow Comes

Destroyer

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Harvard Here I Come

Big Business Girl

The Howards of Virginia

Love Past Thirty

After the Dance

I Like it That Way

Together Again

Strike Up the Band

The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City

What a Life

Fireman, Save My Child

Calling All Husbands

Slither

New Moon

One Foot in Heaven