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