Virginia Sale
Acting
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.
Born: May 19, 1899
Place of Birth: Urbana, Illinois, USA
Known For
Hi, Beautiful
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
The Crowd
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
Star in the Night
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
The Thin Man Goes Home
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Harold Teen
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.
Flowing Gold
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Reveille with Beverly
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
I Like it That Way
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
Filmography
as Bingo Caller
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
as Miss S. E. Collingswood
as Selma Plout
as Maude Blake
as Chicken Woman
as Woman #1
as Mrs. Beggs
as Veronica Hoopler
as Veronica Hoopler
as Hannah
as Meg
as Mrs. Crockett
as Miss Roberts (uncredited)
as Nellie
as Phoebe
as Tom's Wife
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Wife
as Aletha Bates
as Chambermaid
as Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
as Kansas' Dance Partner
as Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
as Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
as Mrs. Sweeney
as Miss Frisbie
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Orsina Wiggins
as Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (uncredited)
as Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
as Miss Blackmere
as Music Teacher
as Neighbor Girl
as Aunt Mabel Parker
as Nurse
as Mrs. Harry Gilpin
as Landlady (uncredited)
as Miss Fairwell
as School Teacher (uncredited)
as Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
as Waitress (uncredited)
as Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
as Miss Montague
as Gawking Wife (uncredited)
as Miss Johnson
as Hatchet-Faced Woman
as Aunt Augusta
as Mrs. Moseby
as Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
as Miss Koltz
as Jessica Tuite
as Chambermaid
as Nanny (uncredited)
as Edna
as Lizzie
as Sophie, the King's Daughter
as Mother
as Peabody
as Edna - Vicki's Maid
as Miss Dixon
as Old Maid
as Miss Smith
as Housekeeper Sawyer
as Bertha
as Miss Gallop
as Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
as Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
as Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
as Sally Curtin (uncredited)
as Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
as Myra
as Smitty
as Madame Romanski
as Newspaper reporter
as Old Maid
as Dude Guest
as Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
as Miss J. Rule
as Marie - Joan's Maid
as Head Prison Reformer
as Flirty Dowager
as Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
as Aunt Prudence
as Selma Meyer
as Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
as Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
as Miss Hickey
as Mother Biblow
as Miss Cobbs
as Mrs. Schmittenberger
as The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
as Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
as Fifi