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Esther Dale

Acting

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.

Born: November 10, 1885

Place of Birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA

Filmography

1960
North to Alaska

as Woman at Picnic

1960
Thriller

as Ellen the Maid

1959
The Sound and the Fury

as Mrs. Maud Mansfield

1957
Maverick

as Ma Braus

1957
M Squad

as Julia Sheldon

1957
The Oklahoman

as Mrs. Fitzgerald

1955
Betrayed Women

as Head Matron Ballard

1955
1952
Cavalcade of America

as Aunt Tabitha

1952
Monkey Business

as Mrs. Rhinelander

1952
1951
Too Young to Kiss

as Mrs. Boykin

1950
Walk Softly, Stranger

as Miss Thompson

1950
Surrender

as Aunt May

1950
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

1946
Margie

as Grandma McSweeney

1946
Smoky

as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards

1946
A Stolen Life

as Mrs. Johnson

1946
1945
Behind City Lights

as Sarah Lowell

1945
On Stage Everybody

as Ma Cassidy

1945
Bedside Manner

as Martha Gravitt

1943
1943
The North Star

as Anna Kurin

1943
Swing Your Partner

as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins

1943
Murder in Times Square

as Longacre Lil

1942
Wrecking Crew

as Mike O'Glendy

1942
A Letter From Bataan

as Mrs. Jackson

1942
1942
Maisie Gets Her Man

as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)

1942
You're Telling Me

as Aunt Fannie Handley

1942
What's Cookin'?

as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)

1942
Blondie Goes to College

as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady

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
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Mrs. Krausheimer

1940
1940
1940
Untamed

as Mrs. Smith

1940
Cross-Country Romance

as Mrs. McGillicuddy

1940
1940
Opened by Mistake

as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest

1940
Forty Little Mothers

as Mrs. Mason the Landlady

1940
1940
Women Without Names

as Head Matron Ingles

1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)

1940
Convicted Woman

as Chief Matron Brackett

1940
Laddie

as Sarah, the Housekeeper

1939
Swanee River

as Temperance Woman

1939
A Child Is Born

as Prison Matron (uncredited)

1939
Bad Little Angel

as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)

1939
Blackmail

as Sarah

1939
The Women

as Ingrid (uncredited)

1939
Tell No Tales

as Mrs. Haskins

1939
6,000 Enemies

as Prison Matron

1939
Big Town Czar

as Ma Daley

1939
Broadway Serenade

as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady

1939
Sergeant Madden

as Mrs. McGillivray

1939
Made for Each Other

as Annie (uncredited)

1939
How to Sub-Let

as Mrs. Mustavas

1939
The Great Man Votes

as Mrs. Markham

1938
Girls on Probation

as Mrs. Engstrom

1938
Prison Farm

as Cora Waxley

1938
Stolen Heaven

as Lieschen

1938
Condemned Women

as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

1937
The Awful Truth

as Mrs. Leeson

1937
Dead End

as Mrs. Fenner

1937
On Such a Night

as Miss Belinda Fentridge

1937
Easy Living

as Lillian

1937
Wild Money

as Jenny Hawkins

1937
Damaged Goods

as Mrs. Dupont

1937
Outcast

as Hattie Simmerson

1936
1936
Fury

as Mrs. Whipple

1936
1936
Lady of Secrets

as Miss Eccles

1936
Timothy's Quest

as Hitty Tarbox

1935
1935
I Dream Too Much

as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)

1935
In Old Kentucky

as Dolly Breckenridge

1935
I Live My Life

as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper

1935
Curly Top

as Genevieve Graham

1935
1935
The Wedding Night

as Mrs. Kaise Novak

1934
Crime Without Passion

as Miss Keeley (uncredited)

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