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Virginia Sale
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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.
As actor
Slither
Big Daddy
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
One Man's Way
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
The Hat Box Mystery
Trail Street
Badman's Territory
Danger Signal
Star in the Night
Blazing the Western Trail
She Gets Her Man
The Thin Man Goes Home
Dark Mountain
Together Again
When Strangers Marry
Hi, Beautiful
Reveille with Beverly
Destroyer
Hit the Ice
The Gang's All Here
Torpedo Boat
The Flame of New Orleans
Miss Polly
Harvard Here I Come
They Died with Their Boots On
Her First Beau
One Foot in Heaven
Calling All Husbands
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby