Esther Dale

Esther Dale

  • Birthday: 1885-11-08
  • Deathday: 1961-07-23
  • Place of birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
  • Also know as: Ester Dale

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.

Filmography

The Farmer in the Dell

1936

As Ma Boyer

Condemned Women

1938

As Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

Damaged Goods

1937

As Mrs. Dupont

Behind City Lights

1945

As Sarah Lowell

How to Sub-Let

1939

As Mrs. Mustavas

Outcast

1937

As Hattie Simmerson

Holiday Affair

1949

As Mrs. Ennis

Her Favorite Patient

1945

As Martha Gravitt

All-American Co-Ed

1941

As Aunt Matilda Collinge

Smoky

1946

As Mrs. 'Gram' Richards

Village Barn Dance

1940

As Minerva Withers

Wild Money

1937

As Jenny Hawkins

Unfinished Business

1941

As Aunt Mathilda

Wrecking Crew

1942

As Mike O'Glendy

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

1952

As Birdie Hicks

On Stage Everybody

1945

As Ma Cassidy

A Tale of Two Cities

1953

As Pross

Curly Top

1935

As Genevieve Graham

Dangerously They Live

1941

As Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper

Murder in Times Square

1943

As Longacre Lil

And One Was Beautiful

1940

As Margaret

The Wedding Night

1935

As Mrs. Kaise Novak

Prison Farm

1938

As Cora Waxley

In Old Kentucky

1935

As Dolly Breckenridge

Untamed

1940

As Mrs. Smith

Hollywood Boulevard

1936

As Martha

You're Telling Me

1942

As Aunt Fannie Handley

Ma and Pa Kettle

1949

As Mrs. Birdie Hicks

The Great Impersonation

1935

As Mrs. Unthank

Timothy's Quest

1936

As Hitty Tarbox

The Awful Truth

1937

As Mrs. Leeson

Private Worlds

1935

As Matron

Back Street

1941

As Mrs. Smith

Margie

1946

As Grandma McSweeney

Laddie

1940

As Sarah, the Housekeeper

Betrayed Women

1955

As Head Matron Ballard

A Letter From Bataan

1942

As Mrs. Jackson

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

1940

As Anna Vaughn

A Stolen Life

1946

As Mrs. Johnson

My Reputation

1946

As Anna

Blackmail

1939

As Sarah

Convicted Woman

1940

As Chief Matron Brackett

Stolen Heaven

1938

As Lieschen

Arise, My Love

1940

As Susie

Big Town Czar

1939

As Ma Daley

Too Young to Kiss

1951

As Mrs. Boykin

Opened by Mistake

1940

As Mrs. Anthony DeBorest

On Such a Night

1937

As Miss Belinda Fentridge

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

1941

As Mrs. Krausheimer

No Man of Her Own

1950

As Josie

The Oklahoman

1957

As Mrs. Fitzgerald

Women Without Names

1940

As Head Matron Ingles

Old Acquaintance

1943

As Harriet

Blondie Goes to College

1942

As Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady

Crime Without Passion

1934

As Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Lady of Secrets

1936

As Miss Eccles

Monkey Business

1952

As Mrs. Rhinelander

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950

As Miss Thompson

Easy Living

1937

As Lillian

Surrender

1950

As Aunt May

Forty Little Mothers

1940

As Mrs. Mason the Landlady

Swing Your Partner

1943

As Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins

Broadway Serenade

1939

As Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady

I Live My Life

1935

As Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper

The Egg and I

1947

As Birdie Hicks

The Great Man Votes

1939

As Mrs. Markham

Bad Little Angel

1939

As Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)

The Mortal Storm

1940

As Marta

The North Star

1943

As Anna Kurin

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

1942

As Mrs. Thompson

The Sound and the Fury

1959

As Mrs. Maud Mansfield

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

1955

As Birdie Hicks

Maisie Gets Her Man

1942

As Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)

Tell No Tales

1939

As Mrs. Haskins

Cross-Country Romance

1940

As Mrs. McGillicuddy

North to Alaska

1960

As Woman at Picnic

6,000 Enemies

1939

As Prison Matron

Fury

1936

As Mrs. Whipple

A Song Is Born

1948

As Miss Bragg

Dead End

1937

As Mrs. Fenner

Made for Each Other

1939

As Annie (uncredited)

I Dream Too Much

1935

As Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)

Swanee River

1939

As Temperance Woman

What's Cookin'?

1942

As Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)

Girls on Probation

1938

As Mrs. Engstrom

A Child Is Born

1939

As Prison Matron (uncredited)

Sergeant Madden

1939

As Mrs. McGillivray

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940

As Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)

The Women

1939

As Ingrid (uncredited)

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