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