

Esther Dale
ActorFrom 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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North to Alaska
1960
Woman at Picnic

The Sound and the Fury
1959
Mrs. Maud Mansfield

The Oklahoman
1957
Mrs. Fitzgerald

Betrayed Women
1955
Head Matron Ballard

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955
Birdie Hicks

A Tale of Two Cities
1953
Pross

Monkey Business
1952
Mrs. Rhinelander

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
Birdie Hicks

Too Young to Kiss
1951
Mrs. Boykin

On Moonlight Bay
1951

No Man of Her Own
1950
Josie

Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Miss Thompson

Surrender
1950
Aunt May

Holiday Affair
1949
Mrs. Ennis

Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
Mrs. Birdie Hicks

A Song Is Born
1948
Miss Bragg

The Unfinished Dance
1947
Olga

The Egg and I
1947
Birdie Hicks

A Stolen Life
1946
Mrs. Johnson

My Reputation
1946
Anna

Margie
1946
Grandma McSweeney

Smoky
1946
Mrs. Richards

Bedside Manner
1945
Martha Gravitt

Behind City Lights
1945
Sarah Lowell

On Stage Everybody
1945
Ma Cassidy

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943

Murder in Times Square
1943
Longacre Lil

The North Star
1943
Anna Kurin

Old Acquaintance
1943
Harriet

Swing Your Partner
1943
Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins

Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)

A Letter From Bataan
1942
Mrs. Jackson

What's Cookin'?
1942
Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)

Blondie Goes to College
1942
Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady

Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
Mrs. Thompson

You're Telling Me
1942
Aunt Fannie Handley

Wrecking Crew
1942
Mike O'Glendy

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
Mrs. Krausheimer

Dangerously They Live
1941
Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper

All-American Co-Ed
1941
Aunt Matilda Collinge

Back Street
1941
Mrs. Smith

Aloma of the South Seas
1941
Tarusa

Unfinished Business
1941
Aunt Mathilda

The Mortal Storm
1940
Marta

Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940
Anna Vaughn

Convicted Woman
1940
Chief Matron Brackett

And One Was Beautiful
1940
Margaret

Women Without Names
1940
Head Matron Ingles

Arise, My Love
1940
Susie

Laddie
1940
Sarah, the Housekeeper
- Village Barn Dance
Village Barn Dance
1940
Minerva Withers

Untamed
1940
Mrs. Smith

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)

Cross-Country Romance
1940
Mrs. McGillicuddy

Forty Little Mothers
1940
Mrs. Mason the Landlady

Opened by Mistake
1940
Mrs. Anthony DeBorest

Bad Little Angel
1939
Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)

Blackmail
1939
Sarah

Broadway Serenade
1939
Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady

6,000 Enemies
1939
Prison Matron

The Great Man Votes
1939
Mrs. Markham

Tell No Tales
1939
Mrs. Haskins

Made for Each Other
1939
Annie (uncredited)

A Child is Born
1939
Prison Matron (uncredited)

The Women
1939
Ingrid (uncredited)

Swanee River
1939
Temperance Woman

Sergeant Madden
1939
Mrs. McGillivray

How to Sub-Let
1939
Mrs. Mustavas

Big Town Czar
1939
Ma Daley

Stolen Heaven
1938
Lieschen

Condemned Women
1938
Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

Prison Farm
1938
Cora Waxley

Girls on Probation
1938
Mrs. Engstrom

Dead End
1937
Mrs. Fenner

The Awful Truth
1937
Mrs. Leeson

Easy Living
1937
Lillian

Damaged Goods
1937
Mrs. Dupont

On Such a Night
1937
Miss Belinda Fentridge

Wild Money
1937
Jenny Hawkins

Outcast
1937
Hattie Simmerson

The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936
Matilda

Fury
1936
Mrs. Whipple

Timothy's Quest
1936
Hitty Tarbox

Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Martha

The Farmer in the Dell
1936
Ma Boyer

Lady of Secrets
1936
Miss Eccles

Curly Top
1935
Genevieve Graham

I Dream Too Much
1935
Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)

Private Worlds
1935
Matron

The Wedding Night
1935
Mrs. Kaise Novak

In Old Kentucky
1935
Dolly Breckenridge

I Live My Life
1935
Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper

Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
Kate

The Great Impersonation
1935
Mrs. Unthank

Crime Without Passion
1934
Miss Keeley (uncredited)





