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