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