Esther Dale
95 movies · 10 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 10, 1885
- Died
- Jul 23, 1961 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- Ester Dale
Biography
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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.
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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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Esther Dale: movies and TV shows
Acting (105)
- 1960 North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 The Sound and the Fury
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
- 1958
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
- 1955 Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
- 1955 Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
- 1954
- 1953 A Tale of Two Cities
as Pross
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
- 1952 Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Birdie Hicks
- 1951 Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
- 1951
- 1950 Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
- 1950 Surrender
as Aunt May
- 1950 No Man of Her Own
as Josie
- 1949 Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
- 1949 Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
- 1948 A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
- 1947 The Unfinished Dance
as Olga
- 1947 The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
- 1946 Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
- 1946 Smoky
as Mrs. Richards
- 1946 A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
- 1946 My Reputation
as Anna
- 1945 Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
- 1945 On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
- 1945 Bedside Manner
as Martha Gravitt
- 1943 Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
- 1943 The North Star
as Anna Kurin
- 1943 Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
- 1943 Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil
- 1943
- 1942 Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
- 1942 A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson
- 1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson
- 1942 Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
- 1942 You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley
- 1942 What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
- 1942 Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
- 1941 Dangerously They Live
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
- 1941 All-American Co-Ed
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
- 1941 Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa
- 1941 Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda
- 1941 Back Street
as Mrs. Smith
- 1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
- 1940 Arise, My Love
as Susie
- 1940 Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as Anna Vaughn
- 1940 Untamed
as Mrs. Smith
- 1940 Cross-Country Romance
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
- 1940 The Mortal Storm
as Marta
- 1940 Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
- 1940 Forty Little Mothers
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
- 1940 And One Was Beautiful
as Margaret
- 1940 Women Without Names
as Head Matron Ingles
- 1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
- 1940 Convicted Woman
as Chief Matron Brackett
- 1940 Village Barn Dance
as Minerva Withers
- 1940 Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
- 1939 Swanee River
as Temperance Woman
- 1939 A Child is Born
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
- 1939 Bad Little Angel
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
- 1939 Blackmail
as Sarah
- 1939 The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
- 1939 Tell No Tales
as Mrs. Haskins
- 1939 6,000 Enemies
as Prison Matron
- 1939 Big Town Czar
as Ma Daley
- 1939 Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
- 1939 Sergeant Madden
as Mrs. McGillivray
- 1939 Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
- 1939 How to Sub-Let
as Mrs. Mustavas
- 1939 The Great Man Votes
as Mrs. Markham
- 1938 Girls on Probation
as Mrs. Engstrom
- 1938 Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley
- 1938 Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen
- 1938 Condemned Women
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
- 1937 The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson
- 1937 Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
- 1937 On Such a Night
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
- 1937 Easy Living
as Lillian
- 1937 Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins
- 1937 Damaged Goods
as Mrs. Dupont
- 1937 Outcast
as Hattie Simmerson
- 1936 Hollywood Boulevard
as Martha
- 1936 Fury
as Mrs. Whipple
- 1936 The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matilda
- 1936 The Farmer in the Dell
as Ma Boyer
- 1936 Lady of Secrets
as Miss Eccles
- 1936 Timothy's Quest
as Hitty Tarbox
- 1935 The Great Impersonation
as Mrs. Unthank
- 1935 I Dream Too Much
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
- 1935 In Old Kentucky
as Dolly Breckenridge
- 1935 Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Kate
- 1935 I Live My Life
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
- 1935 Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
- 1935 Private Worlds
as Matron
- 1935 The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
- 1934 Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)