Esther Dale
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1885-11-10
Day of Death
1961-07-23 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Esther 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.
Acting
(1960)
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
(1959)
The Sound and the Fury
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
(1957)
The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
(1955)
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
(1955)
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
(1953)
A Tale of Two Cities
as Pross
(1952)
Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
(1952)
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Birdie Hicks
(1951)
(1951)
Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
(1950)
No Man of Her Own
as Josie
(1950)
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
(1950)
Surrender
as Aunt May
(1949)
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
(1949)
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
(1948)
A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
(1947)
The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
(1947)
The Unfinished Dance
as Olga
(1946)
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
(1946)
Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
(1946)
My Reputation
as Anna
(1946)
Smoky
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
(1945)
Her Favorite Patient
as Martha Gravitt
(1945)
On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
(1945)
Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
(1943)
The North Star
as Anna Kurin
(1943)
(1943)
Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
(1943)
Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil
(1943)
Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
(1942)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson
(1942)
Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
(1942)
Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
(1942)
What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
(1942)
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
(1942)
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson
(1942)
You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley
(1941)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
(1941)
Dangerously They Live
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
(1941)
All-American Co-Ed
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
(1941)
Back Street
as Mrs. Smith
(1941)
Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa
(1941)
Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda
(1940)
The Mortal Storm
as Marta
(1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
(1940)
Arise, My Love
as Susie
(1940)
Convicted Woman
as Chief Matron Brackett
(1940)
Women Without Names
as Head Matron Ingles
(1940)
Cross-Country Romance
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
(1940)
Untamed
as Mrs. Smith
(1940)
And One Was Beautiful
as Margaret
(1940)
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as Anna Vaughn
(1940)
Forty Little Mothers
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
(1940)
Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
(1940)
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
(1940)
Village Barn Dance
as Minerva Withers
(1939)
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
(1939)
Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
(1939)
Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
(1939)
Sergeant Madden
as Mrs. McGillivray
(1939)
Blackmail
as Sarah
(1939)
Swanee River
as Temperance Woman
(1939)
Bad Little Angel
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
(1939)
Tell No Tales
as Mrs. Haskins
(1939)
A Child Is Born
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
(1939)
Big Town Czar
as Ma Daley
(1939)
6,000 Enemies
as Prison Matron
(1939)
How to Sub-Let
as Mrs. Mustavas
(1939)
The Great Man Votes
as Mrs. Markham
(1938)
Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley
(1938)
Condemned Women
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
(1938)
Girls on Probation
as Mrs. Engstrom
(1938)
Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen
(1937)
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson
(1937)
Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
(1937)
Easy Living
as Lillian
(1937)
Outcast
as Hattie Simmerson
(1937)
Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins
(1937)
On Such a Night
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
(1937)
Damaged Goods
as Mrs. Dupont
(1936)
Fury
as Mrs. Whipple
(1936)
Hollywood Boulevard
as Martha
(1936)
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matilda
(1936)
Timothy's Quest
as Hitty Tarbox
(1936)
The Farmer in the Dell
as Ma Boyer
(1936)
Lady of Secrets
as Miss Eccles
(1935)
Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
(1935)
I Live My Life
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
(1935)
The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
(1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Kate
(1935)
I Dream Too Much
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
(1935)
The Great Impersonation
as Mrs. Unthank
(1935)
Private Worlds
as Matron
(1935)
In Old Kentucky
as Dolly Breckenridge
(1934)
Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)