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