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