North to Alaska
1960 · Movie
as Woman at Picnic
Esther Dale
1885-11-10
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Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
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.
Filmography
Thriller
1960 · TV Show
as Ellen the Maid
The Sound and the Fury
1959 · Movie
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959 · TV Show
Lock-Up
1959 · TV Show
as Mrs. Raymond
The Donna Reed Show
1958 · TV Show
The Oklahoman
1957 · Movie
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
M Squad
1957 · TV Show
as Julia Sheldon
Maverick
1957 · TV Show
as Ma Braus
Betrayed Women
1955 · Movie
as Head Matron Ballard
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955 · Movie
as Birdie Hicks
December Bride
1954 · TV Show
A Tale of Two Cities
1953 · Movie
as Pross
Monkey Business
1952 · Movie
as Mrs. Rhinelander
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952 · Movie
as Birdie Hicks
Cavalcade of America
1952 · TV Show
as Aunt Tabitha
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952 · TV Show
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · TV Show
as Mrs. Weston
Too Young to Kiss
1951 · Movie
as Mrs. Boykin
On Moonlight Bay
1951 · Movie
No Man of Her Own
1950 · Movie
as Josie
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950 · Movie
as Miss Thompson
Surrender
1950 · Movie
as Aunt May
Holiday Affair
1949 · Movie
as Mrs. Ennis
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949 · Movie
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
A Song Is Born
1948 · Movie
as Miss Bragg
The Unfinished Dance
1947 · Movie
as Olga
The Egg and I
1947 · Movie
as Birdie Hicks
A Stolen Life
1946 · Movie
as Mrs. Johnson
My Reputation
1946 · Movie
as Anna
Margie
1946 · Movie
as Grandma McSweeney
Smoky
1946 · Movie
as Mrs. Richards
Bedside Manner
1945 · Movie
as Martha Gravitt
Behind City Lights
1945 · Movie
as Sarah Lowell
On Stage Everybody
1945 · Movie
as Ma Cassidy
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943 · Movie
Murder in Times Square
1943 · Movie
as Longacre Lil
The North Star
1943 · Movie
as Anna Kurin
Old Acquaintance
1943 · Movie
as Harriet
Swing Your Partner
1943 · Movie
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 · Movie
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
A Letter From Bataan
1942 · Movie
as Mrs. Jackson
What's Cookin'?
1942 · Movie
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
Blondie Goes to College
1942 · Movie
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942 · Movie
as Mrs. Thompson
You're Telling Me
1942 · Movie
as Aunt Fannie Handley
Wrecking Crew
1942 · Movie
as Mike O'Glendy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. Krausheimer
Dangerously They Live
1941 · Movie
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
All-American Co-Ed
1941 · Movie
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
Back Street
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. Smith
Aloma of the South Seas
1941 · Movie
as Tarusa
Unfinished Business
1941 · Movie
as Aunt Mathilda
The Mortal Storm
1940 · Movie
as Marta
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940 · Movie
as Anna Vaughn
Convicted Woman
1940 · Movie
as Chief Matron Brackett
And One Was Beautiful
1940 · Movie
as Margaret
Women Without Names
1940 · Movie
as Head Matron Ingles
Arise, My Love
1940 · Movie
as Susie
Laddie
1940 · Movie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
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Village Barn Dance
1940 · Movie
as Minerva Withers
Untamed
1940 · Movie
as Mrs. Smith
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940 · Movie
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
Cross-Country Romance
1940 · Movie
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
Forty Little Mothers
1940 · Movie
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
Opened by Mistake
1940 · Movie
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
Bad Little Angel
1939 · Movie
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
Blackmail
1939 · Movie
as Sarah
Broadway Serenade
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
6,000 Enemies
1939 · Movie
as Prison Matron
The Great Man Votes
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Markham
Tell No Tales
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Haskins
Made for Each Other
1939 · Movie
as Annie (uncredited)
A Child is Born
1939 · Movie
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
The Women
1939 · Movie
as Ingrid (uncredited)
Swanee River
1939 · Movie
as Temperance Woman
Sergeant Madden
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. McGillivray
How to Sub-Let
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Mustavas
Big Town Czar
1939 · Movie
as Ma Daley
Stolen Heaven
1938 · Movie
as Lieschen
Condemned Women
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
Prison Farm
1938 · Movie
as Cora Waxley
Girls on Probation
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Engstrom
Dead End
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Fenner
The Awful Truth
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Leeson
Easy Living
1937 · Movie
as Lillian
Damaged Goods
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Dupont
On Such a Night
1937 · Movie
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
Wild Money
1937 · Movie
as Jenny Hawkins
Outcast
1937 · Movie
as Hattie Simmerson
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936 · Movie
as Matilda
Fury
1936 · Movie
as Mrs. Whipple
Timothy's Quest
1936 · Movie
as Hitty Tarbox
Hollywood Boulevard
1936 · Movie
as Martha
The Farmer in the Dell
1936 · Movie
as Ma Boyer
Lady of Secrets
1936 · Movie
as Miss Eccles
Curly Top
1935 · Movie
as Genevieve Graham
I Dream Too Much
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
Private Worlds
1935 · Movie
as Matron
The Wedding Night
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
In Old Kentucky
1935 · Movie
as Dolly Breckenridge
I Live My Life
1935 · Movie
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935 · Movie
as Kate
The Great Impersonation
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Unthank
Crime Without Passion
1934 · Movie
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
