Cast
Esther Dale
Acting
Cast
Esther Dale
Known for
Acting
Born
1885-11-10
From
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Died
1961-07-23
Also known as Ester Dale
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.
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
★5.8
MOVIE1957
The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
★7.3
MOVIE1941
Back Street
as Mrs. Smith
★7.2
MOVIE1939
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1952
Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
★7.2
MOVIE1937
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson
★7.1
MOVIE1937
Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Outcast
as Hattie Simmerson
★6.3
MOVIE1940
Arise, My Love
as Susie
★6.5
MOVIE1960
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
★7.3
MOVIE1946
My Reputation
as Anna
★6.4
MOVIE1947
The Unfinished Dance
as Olga
★7.3
MOVIE1940
The Mortal Storm
as Marta
★6.4
MOVIE1948
A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
★6.9
MOVIE1949
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
★10.0
MOVIE1935
In Old Kentucky
as Dolly Breckenridge
★6.4
MOVIE1946
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as Anna Vaughn
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Fury
as Mrs. Whipple
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Forty Little Mothers
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
★7.2
MOVIE1937
Easy Living
as Lillian
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Dangerously They Live
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
★6.0
MOVIE1943
The North Star
as Anna Kurin
★6.1
MOVIE1939
Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa
★6.9
MOVIE1950
No Man of Her Own
as Josie
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1943
Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
★6.7
MOVIE1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Swanee River
as Temperance Woman
★7.1
MOVIE1947
The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
★7.2
MOVIE1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Kate
★7.1
MOVIE1946
Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
★4.4
MOVIE1941
All-American Co-Ed
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
★5.1
MOVIE1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
★6.8
MOVIE1959
The Sound and the Fury
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
★7.5
MOVIE1935
The Great Impersonation
as Mrs. Unthank
★6.7
MOVIE1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1939
Tell No Tales
as Mrs. Haskins
★5.1
MOVIE1955
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
★6.5
MOVIE1951
On Moonlight Bay
★6.6
MOVIE1942
Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
★7.5
MOVIE1939
Sergeant Madden
as Mrs. McGillivray
★9.0
MOVIE1953
A Tale of Two Cities
as Pross
★7.0
MOVIE1936
The Farmer in the Dell
as Ma Boyer
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
★5.1
MOVIE1951
Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
★6.4
MOVIE1935
Private Worlds
as Matron
★6.9
MOVIE1939
Blackmail
as Sarah
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda
★5.5
MOVIE1939
Bad Little Angel
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1943
Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley
★5.9
MOVIE1934
Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1942
What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1938
Girls on Probation
as Mrs. Engstrom
★6.7
MOVIE1935
I Live My Life
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
★8.0
MOVIE1945
On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
★7.2
MOVIE1955
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson
★4.7
MOVIE1940
Women Without Names
as Head Matron Ingles
★7.1
MOVIE1939
A Child is Born
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1940
Village Barn Dance
as Minerva Withers
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Birdie Hicks
★7.0
MOVIE1937
On Such a Night
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
★6.4
MOVIE1939
The Great Man Votes
as Mrs. Markham
★5.0
MOVIE1936
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matilda
★4.6
MOVIE1940
Convicted Woman
as Chief Matron Brackett
★5.4
MOVIE1935
I Dream Too Much
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1940
And One Was Beautiful
as Margaret
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Cross-Country Romance
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Big Town Czar
as Ma Daley
★4.5
MOVIE1936
Hollywood Boulevard
as Martha
★5.2
MOVIE1942
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins
★10.0
MOVIE1943
Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
★6.7
MOVIE1936
Lady of Secrets
as Miss Eccles
★5.0
MOVIE1940
Untamed
as Mrs. Smith
★6.1
MOVIE1939
6,000 Enemies
as Prison Matron
★5.7
MOVIE1946
Smoky
as Mrs. Richards
★7.0
MOVIE1945
Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Condemned Women
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
★5.8
MOVIE1939
How to Sub-Let
as Mrs. Mustavas
★4.7
MOVIE1936
Timothy's Quest
as Hitty Tarbox
★5.9
MOVIE1935
The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
★4.8
MOVIE1950
Surrender
as Aunt May
★5.9
MOVIE1945
Bedside Manner
as Martha Gravitt
★3.6
MOVIE1937
Damaged Goods
as Mrs. Dupont
★6.6
MOVIE1940
Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
★10.0
MOVIE1942
You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley