Esther Dale
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 10, 1885
- Died
- July 23, 1961 (aged 75)
- Birthplace
- 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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Filmography
North to Alaska
Movie · as Woman at Picnic
Thriller
TV · as Ellen the Maid · 1 ep
The Sound and the Fury
Movie · as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV · 1 ep
Lock-Up
TV · as Mrs. Raymond · 1 ep
The Donna Reed Show
TV · 1 ep
The Oklahoman
Movie · as Mrs. Fitzgerald
M Squad
TV · as Julia Sheldon · 1 ep
Maverick
TV · as Ma Braus · 1 ep
Betrayed Women
Movie · as Head Matron Ballard
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Movie · as Birdie Hicks
December Bride
TV · 1 ep
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie · as Pross
Monkey Business
Movie · as Mrs. Rhinelander
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Movie · as Birdie Hicks
Cavalcade of America
TV · as Aunt Tabitha · 1 ep
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV · 1 ep
Four Star Playhouse
TV · as Mrs. Weston · 1 ep
Too Young to Kiss
Movie · as Mrs. Boykin
On Moonlight Bay
Movie
No Man of Her Own
Movie · as Josie
Walk Softly, Stranger
Movie · as Miss Thompson
Surrender
Movie · as Aunt May
Holiday Affair
Movie · as Mrs. Ennis
Ma and Pa Kettle
Movie · as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
A Song Is Born
Movie · as Miss Bragg
The Unfinished Dance
Movie · as Olga
The Egg and I
Movie · as Birdie Hicks
A Stolen Life
Movie · as Mrs. Johnson
My Reputation
Movie · as Anna
Margie
Movie · as Grandma McSweeney
Smoky
Movie · as Mrs. Richards
Bedside Manner
Movie · as Martha Gravitt
Behind City Lights
Movie · as Sarah Lowell
On Stage Everybody
Movie · as Ma Cassidy
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Movie
Murder in Times Square
Movie · as Longacre Lil
The North Star
Movie · as Anna Kurin
Old Acquaintance
Movie · as Harriet
Swing Your Partner
Movie · as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
Maisie Gets Her Man
Movie · as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
A Letter From Bataan
Movie · as Mrs. Jackson
What's Cookin'?
Movie · as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
Blondie Goes to College
Movie · as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Movie · as Mrs. Thompson
You're Telling Me
Movie · as Aunt Fannie Handley
Wrecking Crew
Movie · as Mike O'Glendy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Movie · as Mrs. Krausheimer
Dangerously They Live
Movie · as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
All-American Co-Ed
Movie · as Aunt Matilda Collinge
Back Street
Movie · as Mrs. Smith
Aloma of the South Seas
Movie · as Tarusa
Unfinished Business
Movie · as Aunt Mathilda
The Mortal Storm
Movie · as Marta
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Movie · as Anna Vaughn
Convicted Woman
Movie · as Chief Matron Brackett
And One Was Beautiful
Movie · as Margaret
Women Without Names
Movie · as Head Matron Ingles
Arise, My Love
Movie · as Susie
Laddie
Movie · as Sarah, the Housekeeper
Village Barn Dance
Movie · as Minerva Withers
Untamed
Movie · as Mrs. Smith
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Movie · as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
Cross-Country Romance
Movie · as Mrs. McGillicuddy
Forty Little Mothers
Movie · as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
Opened by Mistake
Movie · as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
Bad Little Angel
Movie · as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
Blackmail
Movie · as Sarah
Broadway Serenade
Movie · as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
6,000 Enemies
Movie · as Prison Matron
The Great Man Votes
Movie · as Mrs. Markham
Tell No Tales
Movie · as Mrs. Haskins
Made for Each Other
Movie · as Annie (uncredited)
A Child is Born
Movie · as Prison Matron (uncredited)
The Women
Movie · as Ingrid (uncredited)
Swanee River
Movie · as Temperance Woman
Sergeant Madden
Movie · as Mrs. McGillivray
How to Sub-Let
Movie · as Mrs. Mustavas
Big Town Czar
Movie · as Ma Daley
Stolen Heaven
Movie · as Lieschen
Condemned Women
Movie · as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
Prison Farm
Movie · as Cora Waxley
Girls on Probation
Movie · as Mrs. Engstrom
Dead End
Movie · as Mrs. Fenner
The Awful Truth
Movie · as Mrs. Leeson
Easy Living
Movie · as Lillian
Damaged Goods
Movie · as Mrs. Dupont
On Such a Night
Movie · as Miss Belinda Fentridge
Wild Money
Movie · as Jenny Hawkins
Outcast
Movie · as Hattie Simmerson
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Movie · as Matilda
Fury
Movie · as Mrs. Whipple
Timothy's Quest
Movie · as Hitty Tarbox
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie · as Martha
The Farmer in the Dell
Movie · as Ma Boyer
Lady of Secrets
Movie · as Miss Eccles
Curly Top
Movie · as Genevieve Graham
I Dream Too Much
Movie · as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
Private Worlds
Movie · as Matron
The Wedding Night
Movie · as Mrs. Kaise Novak
In Old Kentucky
Movie · as Dolly Breckenridge
I Live My Life
Movie · as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie · as Kate
The Great Impersonation
Movie · as Mrs. Unthank
Crime Without Passion
Movie · as Miss Keeley (uncredited)