Esther Dale

Birthday:
11/10/1885
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.

Credits

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

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