Esther Dale

Acting

Born November 10, 1885, 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

• 1960North to Alaska — Woman at Picnic
• Thriller — Ellen the Maid
• Lock-Up — Mrs. Raymond
• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
• 1959The Sound and the Fury — Mrs. Maud Mansfield
• The Donna Reed Show
• M Squad — Julia Sheldon
• Maverick — Ma Braus
• 1957The Oklahoman — Mrs. Fitzgerald
• 1955Betrayed Women — Head Matron Ballard
• 1955Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki — Birdie Hicks
• December Bride
• 1953A Tale of Two Cities — Pross
• Cavalcade of America — Aunt Tabitha
• Four Star Playhouse — Mrs. Weston
• 1952Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair — Birdie Hicks
• 1952Monkey Business — Mrs. Rhinelander
• Mr. & Mrs. North
• 1951On Moonlight Bay
• 1951Too Young to Kiss — Mrs. Boykin
• 1950No Man of Her Own — Josie
• 1950Surrender — Aunt May
• 1950Walk Softly, Stranger — Miss Thompson
• 1949Holiday Affair — Mrs. Ennis
• 1949Ma and Pa Kettle — Mrs. Birdie Hicks
• 1948A Song Is Born — Miss Bragg
• 1947The Egg and I — Birdie Hicks
• 1947The Unfinished Dance — Olga
• 1946A Stolen Life — Mrs. Johnson
• 1946Margie — Grandma McSweeney
• 1946My Reputation — Anna
• 1946Smoky — Mrs. Richards
• 1945Bedside Manner — Martha Gravitt
• 1945Behind City Lights — Sarah Lowell
• 1945On Stage Everybody — Ma Cassidy
• 1943Murder in Times Square — Longacre Lil
• 1943Old Acquaintance — Harriet
• 1943Swing Your Partner — Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
• 1943The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
• 1943The North Star — Anna Kurin
• 1942A Letter From Bataan — Mrs. Jackson
• 1942Blondie Goes to College — Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
• 1942Maisie Gets Her Man — Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
• 1942Ten Gentlemen from West Point — Mrs. Thompson
• 1942What's Cookin'? — Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
• 1942Wrecking Crew — Mike O'Glendy
• 1942You're Telling Me — Aunt Fannie Handley
• 1941All-American Co-Ed — Aunt Matilda Collinge
• 1941Aloma of the South Seas — Tarusa
• 1941Back Street — Mrs. Smith
• 1941Dangerously They Live — Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
• 1941Mr. & Mrs. Smith — Mrs. Krausheimer
• 1941Unfinished Business — Aunt Mathilda
• 1940Abe Lincoln in Illinois — Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
• 1940And One Was Beautiful — Margaret
• 1940Arise, My Love — Susie
• 1940Blondie Has Servant Trouble — Anna Vaughn
• 1940Convicted Woman — Chief Matron Brackett
• 1940Cross-Country Romance — Mrs. McGillicuddy
• 1940Forty Little Mothers — Mrs. Mason the Landlady
• 1940Laddie — Sarah, the Housekeeper
• 1940Opened by Mistake — Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
• 1940The Mortal Storm — Marta
• 1940Untamed — Mrs. Smith
• 1940Village Barn Dance — Minerva Withers
• 1940Women Without Names — Head Matron Ingles
• 19396,000 Enemies — Prison Matron
• 1939A Child is Born — Prison Matron (uncredited)
• 1939Bad Little Angel — Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
• 1939Big Town Czar — Ma Daley
• 1939Blackmail — Sarah
• 1939Broadway Serenade — Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
• 1939How to Sub-Let — Mrs. Mustavas
• 1939Made for Each Other — Annie (uncredited)
• 1939Sergeant Madden — Mrs. McGillivray
• 1939Swanee River — Temperance Woman
• 1939Tell No Tales — Mrs. Haskins
• 1939The Great Man Votes — Mrs. Markham
• 1939The Women — Ingrid (uncredited)
• 1938Condemned Women — Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
• 1938Girls on Probation — Mrs. Engstrom
• 1938Prison Farm — Cora Waxley
• 1938Stolen Heaven — Lieschen
• 1937Damaged Goods — Mrs. Dupont
• 1937Dead End — Mrs. Fenner
• 1937Easy Living — Lillian
• 1937On Such a Night — Miss Belinda Fentridge
• 1937Outcast — Hattie Simmerson
• 1937The Awful Truth — Mrs. Leeson
• 1937Wild Money — Jenny Hawkins
• 1936Fury — Mrs. Whipple
• 1936Hollywood Boulevard — Martha
• 1936Lady of Secrets — Miss Eccles
• 1936The Case Against Mrs. Ames — Matilda
• 1936The Farmer in the Dell — Ma Boyer
• 1936Timothy's Quest — Hitty Tarbox
• 1935Curly Top — Genevieve Graham
• 1935I Dream Too Much — Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
• 1935I Live My Life — Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
• 1935In Old Kentucky — Dolly Breckenridge
• 1935Mary Burns, Fugitive — Kate
• 1935Private Worlds — Matron
• 1935The Great Impersonation — Mrs. Unthank
• 1935The Wedding Night — Mrs. Kaise Novak
• 1934Crime Without Passion — Miss Keeley (uncredited)