Name
Esther Dale
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1885-11-10
Deathday
1961-07-23 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Esther Dale (November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961) was an American actress, best known perhaps for her role as Aunt Genevieve in the 1935 Shirley Temple vehicle, Curly Top.
On the stage, Dale starred in Carrie Nation on Broadway in 1933. Her other Broadway credits include Harvest of Years (1947), And Be My Love (1944), and Another Language (1932).
Dale's first film was Crime Without Passion (1934) in an uncredited role. She was a familiar face in films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, frequently playing stern, authoritarian characters such as prison matrons and head nurses, although she was equally adept at playing grande dames and ladies of the aristocracy.
Dale played many roles in television over the years. In the 1958-1959 season of The Donna Reed Show, Dale played a job-seeking housekeeper who is frightened from the Stone home by Jeff Stone's pet mouse, and she appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode "According to Hoyle" opposite James Garner.
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- 1940 The Mortal Storm as Marta
- 1940 Blondie Has Servant Trouble as Anna Vaughn
- 1952 Monkey Business as Mrs. Rhinelander
- 1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Mrs. Krausheimer
- 1949 Holiday Affair as Mrs. Ennis
- 1937 Dead End as Mrs. Fenner
- 1950 No Man of Her Own as Josie
- 1935 Curly Top as Genevieve Graham
- 1937 The Awful Truth as Mrs. Leeson
- 1945 Bedside Manner as Martha Gravitt
- 1946 A Stolen Life as Mrs. Johnson
- 1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
- 1941 Dangerously They Live as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
- 1939 Bad Little Angel as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
- 1941 All-American Co-Ed as Aunt Matilda Collinge
- 1935 I Dream Too Much as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
- 1950 Walk Softly, Stranger as Miss Thompson
- 1942 Maisie Gets Her Man as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
- 1947 The Unfinished Dance as Olga
- 1935 Private Worlds as Matron
- 1946 My Reputation as Anna
- 1957 The Oklahoman as Mrs. Fitzgerald
- 1939 Blackmail as Sarah
- 1943 Murder in Times Square as Longacre Lil
- 1941 Back Street as Mrs. Smith
- 1946 Margie as Grandma McSweeney
- 1939 Broadway Serenade as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
- 1940 Convicted Woman as Chief Matron Brackett
- 1940 And One Was Beautiful as Margaret
- 1941 Aloma of the South Seas as Tarusa
- 1938 Stolen Heaven as Lieschen
- 1936 The Case Against Mrs. Ames as Matilda
- 1938 Condemned Women as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
- 1940 Women Without Names as Head Matron Ingles
- 1940 Arise, My Love as Susie
- 1946 Smoky as Mrs. Richards
- 1939 6,000 Enemies as Prison Matron
- 1939 The Great Man Votes as Mrs. Markham
- 1935 The Wedding Night as Mrs. Kaise Novak
- 1943 The North Star as Anna Kurin
- 1940 Laddie as Sarah, the Housekeeper
- 1937 Easy Living as Lillian
- 1939 Tell No Tales as Mrs. Haskins
- 1938 Prison Farm as Cora Waxley
- 1938 Girls on Probation as Mrs. Engstrom
- 1943 Old Acquaintance as Harriet
- 1937 Damaged Goods as Mrs. Dupont
- 1939 Made for Each Other as Annie (uncredited)
- 1942 A Letter From Bataan as Mrs. Jackson
- 1939 A Child is Born as Prison Matron (uncredited)
- 1939 The Women as Ingrid (uncredited)
- 1935 In Old Kentucky as Dolly Breckenridge
- 1939 Swanee River as Temperance Woman
- 1939 Sergeant Madden as Mrs. McGillivray
- 1937 On Such a Night as Miss Belinda Fentridge
- 1940 Village Barn Dance as Minerva Withers
- 1936 Fury as Mrs. Whipple
- 1936 Timothy's Quest as Hitty Tarbox
- 1940 Untamed as Mrs. Smith
- 1936 Hollywood Boulevard as Martha
- 1955 Betrayed Women as Head Matron Ballard
- 1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
- 1937 Wild Money as Jenny Hawkins
- 1942 What's Cookin'? as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
- 1936 The Farmer in the Dell as Ma Boyer
- 1945 Behind City Lights as Sarah Lowell
- 1940 Cross-Country Romance as Mrs. McGillicuddy
- 1935 I Live My Life as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
- 1935 Mary Burns, Fugitive as Kate
- 1942 Blondie Goes to College as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
- 1950 Surrender as Aunt May
- 1940 Forty Little Mothers as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
- 1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Mrs. Thompson
- 1939 How to Sub-Let as Mrs. Mustavas
- 1939 Big Town Czar as Ma Daley
- 1937 Outcast as Hattie Simmerson
- 1960 North to Alaska as Woman at Picnic
- 1941 Unfinished Business as Aunt Mathilda
- 1942 You're Telling Me as Aunt Fannie Handley
- 1948 A Song Is Born as Miss Bragg
- 1942 Wrecking Crew as Mike O'Glendy
- 1959 The Sound and the Fury as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
- 1947 The Egg and I as Birdie Hicks
- 1955 Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki as Birdie Hicks
- 1952 Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair as Birdie Hicks
- 1949 Ma and Pa Kettle as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
- 1943 Swing Your Partner as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
- 1935 The Great Impersonation as Mrs. Unthank
- 1945 On Stage Everybody as Ma Cassidy
- 1951 Too Young to Kiss as Mrs. Boykin
- 1934 Crime Without Passion as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
- 1953 A Tale of Two Cities as Pross
- 1936 Lady of Secrets as Miss Eccles
- 1940 Opened by Mistake as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
- 1951 On Moonlight Bay
- 1959 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ( 1 episode )
- 1954 December Bride ( 1 episode )
- 1960 Thriller ( 1 episode ) as Ellen the Maid
- 1957 M Squad ( 1 episode ) as Julia Sheldon
- 1958 The Donna Reed Show ( 1 episode )
- 1952 Cavalcade of America ( 1 episode ) as Aunt Tabitha
- 1952 Mr. & Mrs. North ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Maverick ( 1 episode ) as Ma Braus
- 1952 Four Star Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Weston
- 1959 Lock-Up ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Raymond
