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Esther Dale
Esther Dale

Esther Dale

ActingBorn November 10, 1885Died July 23, 1961 (age 75)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.

Filmography

1960
North to Alaska

as Woman at Picnic

Movie
1960
Thriller

as Ellen the Maid

TV
1959TV
1959
The Sound and the Fury

as Mrs. Maud Mansfield

Movie
1957
Maverick

as Ma Braus

TV
1957
M Squad

as Julia Sheldon

TV
1957
The Oklahoman

as Mrs. Fitzgerald

Movie
1955
Betrayed Women

as Head Matron Ballard

Movie
1955Movie
1953Movie
1952
Cavalcade of America

as Aunt Tabitha

TV
1952
Four Star Playhouse

as Mrs. Weston

TV
1952
Monkey Business

as Mrs. Rhinelander

Movie
1952Movie
1951
Too Young to Kiss

as Mrs. Boykin

Movie
1950
Walk Softly, Stranger

as Miss Thompson

Movie
1950
Surrender

as Aunt May

Movie
1950Movie
1949
Holiday Affair

as Mrs. Ennis

Movie
1949
Ma and Pa Kettle

as Mrs. Birdie Hicks

Movie
1948
A Song Is Born

as Miss Bragg

Movie
1947Movie
1947
The Egg and I

as Birdie Hicks

Movie
1946
Margie

as Grandma McSweeney

Movie
1946
Smoky

as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards

Movie
1946
A Stolen Life

as Mrs. Johnson

Movie
1946Movie
1945
Behind City Lights

as Sarah Lowell

Movie
1945
On Stage Everybody

as Ma Cassidy

Movie
1945
Bedside Manner

as Martha Gravitt

Movie
1943Movie
1943
The North Star

as Anna Kurin

Movie
1943
Swing Your Partner

as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins

Movie
1943
Murder in Times Square

as Longacre Lil

Movie
1942
Wrecking Crew

as Mike O'Glendy

Movie
1942
A Letter From Bataan

as Mrs. Jackson

Movie
1942Movie
1942
Maisie Gets Her Man

as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)

Movie
1942
You're Telling Me

as Aunt Fannie Handley

Movie
1942
What's Cookin'?

as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)

Movie
1942
Blondie Goes to College

as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady

Movie
1941
Dangerously They Live

as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper

Movie
1941
All-American Co-Ed

as Aunt Matilda Collinge

Movie
1941Movie
1941
Unfinished Business

as Aunt Mathilda

Movie
1941
Back Street

as Mrs. Smith

Movie
1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Mrs. Krausheimer

Movie
1940Movie
1940Movie
1940
Untamed

as Mrs. Smith

Movie
1940
Cross-Country Romance

as Mrs. McGillicuddy

Movie
1940Movie
1940
Opened by Mistake

as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest

Movie
1940
Forty Little Mothers

as Mrs. Mason the Landlady

Movie
1940Movie
1940
Women Without Names

as Head Matron Ingles

Movie
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)

Movie
1940
Convicted Woman

as Chief Matron Brackett

Movie
1940
Village Barn Dance

as Minerva Withers

Movie
1940
Laddie

as Sarah, the Housekeeper

Movie
1939
Swanee River

as Temperance Woman

Movie
1939
A Child is Born

as Prison Matron (uncredited)

Movie
1939
Bad Little Angel

as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)

Movie
1939
Blackmail

as Sarah

Movie
1939
The Women

as Ingrid (uncredited)

Movie
1939
Tell No Tales

as Mrs. Haskins

Movie
1939
6,000 Enemies

as Prison Matron

Movie
1939
Big Town Czar

as Ma Daley

Movie
1939
Broadway Serenade

as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady

Movie
1939
Sergeant Madden

as Mrs. McGillivray

Movie
1939
Made for Each Other

as Annie (uncredited)

Movie
1939
How to Sub-Let

as Mrs. Mustavas

Movie
1939
The Great Man Votes

as Mrs. Markham

Movie
1938
Girls on Probation

as Mrs. Engstrom

Movie
1938
Prison Farm

as Cora Waxley

Movie
1938
Stolen Heaven

as Lieschen

Movie
1938
Condemned Women

as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

Movie
1937
The Awful Truth

as Mrs. Leeson

Movie
1937
Dead End

as Mrs. Fenner

Movie
1937
On Such a Night

as Miss Belinda Fentridge

Movie
1937
Easy Living

as Lillian

Movie
1937
Wild Money

as Jenny Hawkins

Movie
1937
Damaged Goods

as Mrs. Dupont

Movie
1937
Outcast

as Hattie Simmerson

Movie
1936Movie
1936
Fury

as Mrs. Whipple

Movie
1936Movie
1936Movie
1936
Lady of Secrets

as Miss Eccles

Movie
1936
Timothy's Quest

as Hitty Tarbox

Movie
1935Movie
1935
I Dream Too Much

as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)

Movie
1935
In Old Kentucky

as Dolly Breckenridge

Movie
1935Movie
1935
I Live My Life

as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper

Movie
1935
Curly Top

as Genevieve Graham

Movie
1935Movie
1935
The Wedding Night

as Mrs. Kaise Novak

Movie
1934
Crime Without Passion

as Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayNovember 10, 1885
Day of DeathJuly 23, 1961
Place of BirthBeaufort, South Carolina, USA
Popularity0.3
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