As of August 2026, Virginia Sale is best known for Petticoat Junction. Find every show and movie Virginia Sale has starred in — and where to watch them — below.
Virginia Sale

Virginia Sale

Actress Born 1899 Urbana, Illinois, USA 1 TV Shows 8 Movies

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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.

Virginia Sale has built a filmography of 9 credits over a career spanning from 1930 to 1973.

Virginia Sale's most notable role to date came in Topper (1937), where she played Miss Johnson. She also appeared in The Thin Man Goes Home (1944) as Tom's Wife. Most recently appeared in Petticoat Junction (1963) as Selma Plout.

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📺 Virginia Sale's TV Shows

Petticoat Junction
Selma Plout
1963

🎬 Virginia Sale's Movies

The Flame of New Orleans
Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
1941
Topper
Miss Johnson
1937
Moby Dick
Old Maid
1930
Trail Street
Hannah
1947
The Howards of Virginia
Neighbor Girl
1940
The Thin Man Goes Home
Tom's Wife
1944
Badman's Territory
Meg
1946
Slither
Bingo Caller
1973

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