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