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
Cast Credits

Slither
Character: Bingo Caller
MOVIE • 1973

Big Daddy
Character:
MOVIE • 1969

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Character: Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1967

One Man's Way
Character: Miss S. E. Collingswood
MOVIE • 1964

Petticoat Junction
Character: Selma Plout
TV • 1963

Petticoat Junction
Character: Maude Blake
TV • 1963

The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Chicken Woman
TV • 1962

The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Woman #1
TV • 1960

The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Mrs. Beggs
TV • 1960

The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Character: Veronica Hoopler
MOVIE • 1947

The Hat Box Mystery
Character: Veronica Hoopler
MOVIE • 1947

Trail Street
Character: Hannah
MOVIE • 1947

Badman's Territory
Character: Meg
MOVIE • 1946

Danger Signal
Character: Mrs. Crockett
MOVIE • 1945

Star in the Night
Character: Miss Roberts (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1945

Blazing the Western Trail
Character: Nellie
MOVIE • 1945

She Gets Her Man
Character: Phoebe
MOVIE • 1945

The Thin Man Goes Home
Character: Tom's Wife
MOVIE • 1944

Together Again
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1944

Hi, Beautiful
Character: Wife
MOVIE • 1944