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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
The Andy Griffith Show
1966
Petticoat Junction
1964
The Beverly Hillbillies
1964
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967
Strike Up the Band
1940
The Gang's All Here
1943
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
Topper
1937
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
The Howards of Virginia
1940
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