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.
Known For
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)
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
(1955)
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
(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)
Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
(1951)
(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)
Smoky
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
(1946)
My Reputation
as Anna
(1946)
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
(1946)
Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
(1945)
Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
(1945)
Her Favorite Patient
as Martha Gravitt
(1945)
On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
(1943)
The North Star
as Anna Kurin
(1943)
Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
(1943)
(1943)
Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
(1943)
Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil
(1942)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson
(1942)
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
(1942)
Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
(1942)
What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
(1942)
Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
(1942)
You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley
(1942)
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson
(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)
Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda
(1941)
Back Street
as Mrs. Smith
(1941)
Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa
(1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
(1940)
The Mortal Storm
as Marta
(1940)
Forty Little Mothers
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
(1940)
And One Was Beautiful
as Margaret
(1940)
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as Anna Vaughn
(1940)
Women Without Names
as Head Matron Ingles
(1940)
Convicted Woman
as Chief Matron Brackett
(1940)
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
(1940)
Arise, My Love
as Susie
(1940)
Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
(1940)
Cross-Country Romance
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
(1940)
Untamed
as Mrs. Smith
(1940)
Village Barn Dance
as Minerva Withers
(1939)
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
(1939)
Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
(1939)
Big Town Czar
as Ma Daley
(1939)
The Great Man Votes
as Mrs. Markham
(1939)
Swanee River
as Temperance Woman
(1939)
Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
(1939)
A Child Is Born
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
(1939)
Sergeant Madden
as Mrs. McGillivray
(1939)
Bad Little Angel
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
(1939)
Blackmail
as Sarah
(1939)
Tell No Tales
as Mrs. Haskins
(1939)
6,000 Enemies
as Prison Matron
(1939)
How to Sub-Let
as Mrs. Mustavas
(1938)
Girls on Probation
as Mrs. Engstrom
(1938)
Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen
(1938)
Condemned Women
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
(1938)
Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley
(1937)
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson
(1937)
Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
(1937)
Easy Living
as Lillian
(1937)
Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins
(1937)
On Such a Night
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
(1937)
Outcast
as Hattie Simmerson
(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)
The Farmer in the Dell
as Ma Boyer
(1936)
Lady of Secrets
as Miss Eccles
(1936)
Timothy's Quest
as Hitty Tarbox
(1935)
Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
(1935)
The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
(1935)
Private Worlds
as Matron
(1935)
I Live My Life
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
(1935)
I Dream Too Much
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
(1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Kate
(1935)
In Old Kentucky
as Dolly Breckenridge
(1935)
The Great Impersonation
as Mrs. Unthank
(1934)
Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)