Esther Dale
Acting • Born 1885-11-10 – Died 1961-07-23
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
105 credits
The Mortal Storm
Movie • 1940
Marta
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Movie • 1940
Anna Vaughn
Monkey Business
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Rhinelander
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Krausheimer
Holiday Affair
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Ennis
Dead End
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Fenner
No Man of Her Own
Movie • 1950
Josie
Curly Top
Movie • 1935
Genevieve Graham
The Awful Truth
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Leeson
Bedside Manner
Movie • 1945
Martha Gravitt
A Stolen Life
Movie • 1946
Mrs. Johnson
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Movie • 1943
Dangerously They Live
Movie • 1941
Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
Bad Little Angel
Movie • 1939
Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
All-American Co-Ed
Movie • 1941
Aunt Matilda Collinge
I Dream Too Much
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
Walk Softly, Stranger
Movie • 1950
Miss Thompson
Maisie Gets Her Man
Movie • 1942
Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
The Unfinished Dance
Movie • 1947
Olga
Private Worlds
Movie • 1935
Matron
My Reputation
Movie • 1946
Anna
The Oklahoman
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Fitzgerald
Blackmail
Movie • 1939
Sarah
Murder in Times Square
Movie • 1943
Longacre Lil
Back Street
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Smith
Margie
Movie • 1946
Grandma McSweeney
Broadway Serenade
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
Convicted Woman
Movie • 1940
Chief Matron Brackett
And One Was Beautiful
Movie • 1940
Margaret
Aloma of the South Seas
Movie • 1941
Tarusa
Stolen Heaven
Movie • 1938
Lieschen
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Movie • 1936
Matilda
Condemned Women
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
Women Without Names
Movie • 1940
Head Matron Ingles
Arise, My Love
Movie • 1940
Susie
Smoky
Movie • 1946
Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
6,000 Enemies
Movie • 1939
Prison Matron
The Great Man Votes
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Markham
The Wedding Night
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Kaise Novak
The North Star
Movie • 1943
Anna Kurin
Laddie
Movie • 1940
Sarah, the Housekeeper
Easy Living
Movie • 1937
Lillian
Tell No Tales
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Haskins
Prison Farm
Movie • 1938
Cora Waxley
Girls on Probation
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Engstrom
Old Acquaintance
Movie • 1943
Harriet
Damaged Goods
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Dupont
Made for Each Other
Movie • 1939
Annie (uncredited)
A Letter From Bataan
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Jackson
A Child is Born
Movie • 1939
Prison Matron (uncredited)
The Women
Movie • 1939
Ingrid (uncredited)
In Old Kentucky
Movie • 1935
Dolly Breckenridge
Swanee River
Movie • 1939
Temperance Woman
Sergeant Madden
Movie • 1939
Mrs. McGillivray
On Such a Night
Movie • 1937
Miss Belinda Fentridge
Village Barn Dance
Movie • 1940
Minerva Withers
Fury
Movie • 1936
Mrs. Whipple
Timothy's Quest
Movie • 1936
Hitty Tarbox
Untamed
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Smith
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Martha
Betrayed Women
Movie • 1955
Head Matron Ballard
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Movie • 1940
Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
Wild Money
Movie • 1937
Jenny Hawkins
What's Cookin'?
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
The Farmer in the Dell
Movie • 1936
Ma Boyer
Behind City Lights
Movie • 1945
Sarah Lowell
Cross-Country Romance
Movie • 1940
Mrs. McGillicuddy
I Live My Life
Movie • 1935
Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Movie • 1935
Kate
Blondie Goes to College
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
Surrender
Movie • 1950
Aunt May
Forty Little Mothers
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Mason the Landlady
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Thompson
How to Sub-Let
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Mustavas
Big Town Czar
Movie • 1939
Ma Daley
Outcast
Movie • 1937
Hattie Simmerson
North to Alaska
Movie • 1960
Woman at Picnic
Unfinished Business
Movie • 1941
Aunt Mathilda
You're Telling Me
Movie • 1942
Aunt Fannie Handley
A Song Is Born
Movie • 1948
Miss Bragg
Wrecking Crew
Movie • 1942
Mike O'Glendy
The Sound and the Fury
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Maud Mansfield
The Egg and I
Movie • 1947
Birdie Hicks
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Movie • 1952
Birdie Hicks
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Movie • 1955
Birdie Hicks
Ma and Pa Kettle
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Birdie Hicks
Swing Your Partner
Movie • 1943
Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
The Great Impersonation
Movie • 1935
Mrs. Unthank
On Stage Everybody
Movie • 1945
Ma Cassidy
Too Young to Kiss
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Boykin
Crime Without Passion
Movie • 1934
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1953
Pross
Lady of Secrets
Movie • 1936
Miss Eccles
Opened by Mistake
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
On Moonlight Bay
Movie • 1951
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV • 1959
December Bride
TV • 1954
Thriller
TV • 1960
Ellen the Maid
M Squad
TV • 1957
Julia Sheldon
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Aunt Tabitha
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952
Maverick
TV • 1957
Ma Braus
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Mrs. Weston