About

Known credits:
95
Birthday:
1885-11-08
Place of birth:
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Website:
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Esther Dale

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
1960 North to Alaska Actor Woman at Picnic 60
Fair
1959 The Sound and the Fury Actor Mrs. Maud Mansfield 59
Average
1957 The Oklahoman Actor Mrs. Fitzgerald 59
Average
1955 Betrayed Women Actor Head Matron Ballard 58
Average
1955 Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki Actor Birdie Hicks 59
Average
1953 A Tale of Two Cities Actor Pross N/A
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1952 Monkey Business Actor Mrs. Rhinelander 61
Fair
1952 Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair Actor Birdie Hicks 59
Average
1951 Too Young to Kiss Actor Mrs. Boykin 58
Average
1951 On Moonlight Bay Actor 59
Average
1950 Walk Softly, Stranger Actor Miss Thompson 58
Average
1950 Surrender Actor Aunt May 58
Average
1950 No Man of Her Own Actor Josie 59
Average
1949 Holiday Affair Actor Mrs. Ennis 60
Fair
1949 Ma and Pa Kettle Actor Mrs. Birdie Hicks 59
Average
1948 A Song Is Born Actor Miss Bragg 59
Average
1947 The Unfinished Dance Actor Olga 58
Average
1947 The Egg and I Actor Birdie Hicks 59
Average
1946 Margie Actor Grandma McSweeney 59
Average
1946 Smoky Actor Mrs. 'Gram' Richards 58
Average
1946 A Stolen Life Actor Mrs. Johnson 59
Average
1946 My Reputation Actor Anna 59
Average
1945 Behind City Lights Actor Sarah Lowell N/A
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1945 On Stage Everybody Actor Ma Cassidy N/A
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1945 Her Favorite Patient Actor Martha Gravitt 59
Average
1943 Old Acquaintance Actor Harriet 59
Average
1943 The North Star Actor Anna Kurin 59
Average
1943 Swing Your Partner Actor Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins N/A
N/A
1943 Murder in Times Square Actor Longacre Lil 58
Average
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday Actor 59
Average
1942 Wrecking Crew Actor Mike O'Glendy 58
Average
1942 A Letter From Bataan Actor Mrs. Jackson 58
Average
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point Actor Mrs. Thompson 59
Average
1942 Maisie Gets Her Man Actor Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited) 59
Average
1942 You're Telling Me Actor Aunt Fannie Handley N/A
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1942 What's Cookin'? Actor Mrs. Murphy (uncredited) 59
Average
1942 Blondie Goes to College Actor Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady 59
Average
1941 Dangerously They Live Actor Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper 59
Average
1941 All-American Co-Ed Actor Aunt Matilda Collinge 58
Average
1941 Aloma of the South Seas Actor Tarusa 59
Average
1941 Unfinished Business Actor Aunt Mathilda 59
Average
1941 Back Street Actor Mrs. Smith 59
Average
1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith Actor Mrs. Krausheimer 59
Average
1940 Arise, My Love Actor Susie 59
Average
1940 Blondie Has Servant Trouble Actor Anna Vaughn 59
Average
1940 Untamed Actor Mrs. Smith 58
Average
1940 Cross-Country Romance Actor Mrs. McGillicuddy 59
Average
1940 The Mortal Storm Actor Marta 60
Fair
1940 Opened by Mistake Actor Mrs. Anthony DeBorest N/A
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1940 Forty Little Mothers Actor Mrs. Mason the Landlady 59
Average
1940 And One Was Beautiful Actor Margaret 59
Average
1940 Women Without Names Actor Head Matron Ingles 59
Average
1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois Actor Lincoln's Cook (uncredited) 59
Average
1940 Convicted Woman Actor Chief Matron Brackett 58
Average
1940 Village Barn Dance Actor Minerva Withers N/A
N/A
1940 Laddie Actor Sarah, the Housekeeper 59
Average
1939 Swanee River Actor Temperance Woman 58
Average
1939 A Child Is Born Actor Prison Matron (uncredited) 59
Average
1939 Bad Little Angel Actor Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited) 58
Average
1939 Blackmail Actor Sarah 59
Average
1939 The Women Actor Ingrid (uncredited) 61
Fair
1939 Tell No Tales Actor Mrs. Haskins 59
Average
1939 6,000 Enemies Actor Prison Matron 59
Average
1939 Big Town Czar Actor Ma Daley N/A
N/A
1939 Broadway Serenade Actor Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady 59
Average
1939 Sergeant Madden Actor Mrs. McGillivray 59
Average
1939 Made for Each Other Actor Annie (uncredited) 59
Average
1939 How to Sub-Let Actor Mrs. Mustavas 59
Average
1939 The Great Man Votes Actor Mrs. Markham 59
Average
1938 Girls on Probation Actor Mrs. Engstrom 59
Average
1938 Prison Farm Actor Cora Waxley 59
Average
1938 Stolen Heaven Actor Lieschen N/A
N/A
1938 Condemned Women Actor Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron 59
Average
1937 The Awful Truth Actor Mrs. Leeson 63
Fair
1937 On Such a Night Actor Miss Belinda Fentridge N/A
N/A
1937 Dead End Actor Mrs. Fenner 61
Fair
1937 Easy Living Actor Lillian 60
Fair
1937 Wild Money Actor Jenny Hawkins N/A
N/A
1937 Damaged Goods Actor Mrs. Dupont 58
Average
1937 Outcast Actor Hattie Simmerson N/A
N/A
1936 Hollywood Boulevard Actor Martha 58
Average
1936 Fury Actor Mrs. Whipple 63
Fair
1936 The Case Against Mrs. Ames Actor Matilda 58
Average
1936 The Farmer in the Dell Actor Ma Boyer N/A
N/A
1936 Lady of Secrets Actor Miss Eccles 59
Average
1936 Timothy's Quest Actor Hitty Tarbox 58
Average
1935 The Great Impersonation Actor Mrs. Unthank N/A
N/A
1935 I Dream Too Much Actor Mrs. Dilley (uncredited) 58
Average
1935 In Old Kentucky Actor Dolly Breckenridge N/A
N/A
1935 Mary Burns, Fugitive Actor Kate N/A
N/A
1935 I Live My Life Actor Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper 59
Average
1935 Curly Top Actor Genevieve Graham 59
Average
1935 Private Worlds Actor Matron 59
Average
1935 The Wedding Night Actor Mrs. Kaise Novak 59
Average
1934 Crime Without Passion Actor Miss Keeley (uncredited) 58
Average