Acting
Esther Dale
EN cinema · 95 credits
Born
10 November 1885
Died
23 July 1961 (aged 75)
Birthplace
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Also known as Ester Dale
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
Filmography
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
The Sound and the Fury
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
A Tale of Two Cities
as Pross
Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Birdie Hicks
Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
No Man of Her Own
as Josie
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
Surrender
as Aunt May
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
My Reputation
as Anna
Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
Smoky
as Mrs. Richards
Bedside Manner
as Martha Gravitt
Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil
The North Star
as Anna Kurin
Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson
What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson
You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley
Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
Dangerously They Live
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
All-American Co-Ed
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
Back Street
as Mrs. Smith
Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa
Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda
The Mortal Storm
as Marta
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as Anna Vaughn
Convicted Woman
as Chief Matron Brackett
And One Was Beautiful
as Margaret
Women Without Names
as Head Matron Ingles
Arise, My Love
as Susie
Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
Village Barn Dance
as Minerva Withers
Untamed
as Mrs. Smith
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
Cross-Country Romance
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
Forty Little Mothers
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
Bad Little Angel
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
Blackmail
as Sarah
Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
6,000 Enemies
as Prison Matron
The Great Man Votes
as Mrs. Markham
Tell No Tales
as Mrs. Haskins
Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
A Child is Born
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
Swanee River
as Temperance Woman
Sergeant Madden
as Mrs. McGillivray
How to Sub-Let
as Mrs. Mustavas
Big Town Czar
as Ma Daley
Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen
Condemned Women
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley
Girls on Probation
as Mrs. Engstrom
Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson
Easy Living
as Lillian
Damaged Goods
as Mrs. Dupont
On Such a Night
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins
Outcast
as Hattie Simmerson
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matilda
Fury
as Mrs. Whipple
Timothy's Quest
as Hitty Tarbox
Hollywood Boulevard
as Martha
The Farmer in the Dell
as Ma Boyer
Lady of Secrets
as Miss Eccles
Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
I Dream Too Much
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
Private Worlds
as Matron
The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
In Old Kentucky
as Dolly Breckenridge
I Live My Life
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
The Great Impersonation
as Mrs. Unthank
Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)