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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.494 |
Birthday | 1899-05-19 |
Place of Birth | Urbana, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | Virginia Sales, |
1937
Topper
6.7/115
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1964
One Man's Way
4/2
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Danger Signal
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1967
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1941
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6/1
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1934
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6.5/11
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4/1
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5/6
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1944
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5.3/9
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1934
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4.2/4
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1929
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1936
Three Men on a Horse
6.2/5
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1930
Embarrassing Moments
0/0
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4/5
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1931
My Past
3.8/5
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1931
Gold Dust Gertie
3/1
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1937
Dangerous Holiday
0/0
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Madame du Barry
4.8/5
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Running Hollywood
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3/2
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1935
It's A Small World
4.5/2
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Meet the Missus
4/1
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1930
Back Pay
4/6
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New Moon
4.3/3
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1930
Show Girl in Hollywood
5.6/7
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1929
Weary River
5.4/10
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4.7/3
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Midnight Madness
0/0
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1928
Harold Teen
7/1
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1932
Fireman, Save My Child
5/3
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1944
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5.4/9
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1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
5.8/22
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Bright Lights
4/4
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1935
After the Dance
6/1
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Registered Nurse
4.6/6
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1937
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5.8/2
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
5.8/10
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1940
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6/1
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1939
Charlie Chan in Reno
6.2/16
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1937
Outcast
0/0
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1933
The Iron Master
0/0
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1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
6/1
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1933
Smoke Lightning
3.5/2
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1929
Why Be Good?
6.5/11
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1945
Star in the Night
6.9/16
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1930
Moby Dick
5.3/9
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Moby Dick
1941
Harvard Here I Come
5/3
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1944
When Strangers Marry
6.1/29
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1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
6.9/7
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1940
Flowing Gold
7/7
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1940
Strike Up the Band
6.2/23
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Strike Up the Band
1940
The Howards of Virginia
6.3/9
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The Howards of Virginia
1937
You're a Sweetheart
3.7/9
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1931
Too Young to Marry
0/0
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1943
Reveille with Beverly
7/5
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Reveille with Beverly
1930
What a Life
0/0
A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.
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1931
Big Business Girl
5.5/2
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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Big Business Girl
1940
Forty Little Mothers
6.2/4
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Forty Little Mothers
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
6.6/105
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1929
Fancy Baggage
0/0
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Fancy Baggage
1945
Blazing the Western Trail
5.6/4
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Blazing the Western Trail
1935
We're in the Money
5.5/5
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1928
The Crowd
7.6/167
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The Crowd
1937
Angel's Holiday
5.5/2
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Angel's Holiday
1937
The Go-Getter
5.3/3
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1928
The Floating College
0/0
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1945
She Gets Her Man
3.7/3
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1929
Below the Deadline
1/1
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Below the Deadline
1941
Her First Beau
5/1
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Her First Beau
1930
Loose Ankles
4.4/5
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the appr...
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Loose Ankles
1943
Destroyer
6.6/15
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Destroyer
1938
The Jury's Secret
3/1
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The Jury's Secret
1969
Big Daddy
0/0
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from t...
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Big Daddy
1940
Gold Rush Maisie
6.5/5
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Gold Rush Maisie
1943
Hit the Ice
5.9/23
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Hit the Ice
1947
Trail Street
6.4/11
Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.
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Trail Street
1932
Union Depot
6.1/14
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Union Depot
1934
Embarrassing Moments
0/0
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1942
Torpedo Boat
6/1
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Torpedo Boat
1943
The Gang's All Here
5.8/35
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The Gang's All Here
1931
Many a Slip
0/0
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Many a Slip
1941
One Foot in Heaven
6.6/17
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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One Foot in Heaven
1934
I Like it That Way
7/1
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
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