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Esther Dale
Born · November 10, 1885
Died · July 23, 1961 (75 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Bio
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.
North to Alaska
Woman at Picnic
6.5
1960
Thriller
Ellen the Maid · (1 episode)
6.3
1960
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
(1 episode)
5.8
1959
Lock-Up
(1 episode)
6.2
1959
The Sound and the Fury
Mrs. Maud Mansfield
6.6
1959
The Donna Reed Show
(1 episode)
6.1
1958
Maverick
Ma Braus · (1 episode)
6.8
1957
M Squad
Julia Sheldon · (1 episode)
5.2
1957
The Oklahoman
Mrs. Fitzgerald
5.6
1957
Betrayed Women
Head Matron Ballard
4.7
1955
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Birdie Hicks
6.8
1955
December Bride
(1 episode)
5.5
1954
A Tale of Two Cities
Pross
0.0
1953
Mr. & Mrs. North
(1 episode)
4.3
1952
Cavalcade of America
Aunt Tabitha · (1 episode)
3.5
1952
Four Star Playhouse
Mrs. Weston · (1 episode)
6.1
1952
Monkey Business
Mrs. Rhinelander
6.7
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Birdie Hicks
5.9
1952
Too Young to Kiss
Mrs. Boykin
5.0
1951
On Moonlight Bay
6.4
1951
Walk Softly, Stranger
Miss Thompson
5.0
1950
Surrender
Aunt May
4.8
1950
No Man of Her Own
Josie
6.9
1950
Holiday Affair
Mrs. Ennis
6.8
1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
Mrs. Birdie Hicks
7.2
1949
A Song Is Born
Miss Bragg
6.5
1948
The Unfinished Dance
Olga
6.0
1947
The Egg and I
Birdie Hicks
7.0
1947
Margie
Grandma McSweeney
6.9
1946
Smoky
Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
5.2
1946
A Stolen Life
Mrs. Johnson
6.4
1946
My Reputation
Anna
7.1
1946
Behind City Lights
Sarah Lowell
0.0
1945
On Stage Everybody
Ma Cassidy
0.0
1945
Her Favorite Patient
Martha Gravitt
5.8
1945
Old Acquaintance
Harriet
6.9
1943
The North Star
Anna Kurin
6.1
1943
Swing Your Partner
Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
0.0
1943
Murder in Times Square
Longacre Lil
4.6
1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
6.4
1943
Wrecking Crew
Mike O'Glendy
5.5
1942
A Letter From Bataan
Mrs. Jackson
4.5
1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Mrs. Thompson
5.8
1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
6.5
1942
You're Telling Me
Aunt Fannie Handley
0.0
1942
What's Cookin'?
Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
5.5
1942
Blondie Goes to College
Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
6.4
1942
Dangerously They Live
Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
5.9
1941
All-American Co-Ed
Aunt Matilda Collinge
4.2
1941
Aloma of the South Seas
Tarusa
5.7
1941
Unfinished Business
Aunt Mathilda
5.3
1941
Back Street
Mrs. Smith
7.2
1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Krausheimer
6.2
1941
Arise, My Love
Susie
6.1
1940
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Anna Vaughn
7.2
1940
Untamed
Mrs. Smith
4.3
1940
Cross-Country Romance
Mrs. McGillicuddy
6.4
1940
The Mortal Storm
Marta
7.2
1940
Opened by Mistake
Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
0.0
1940
Forty Little Mothers
Mrs. Mason the Landlady
6.2
1940
And One Was Beautiful
Margaret
6.2
1940
Women Without Names
Head Matron Ingles
4.8
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
7.0
1940
Convicted Woman
Chief Matron Brackett
3.7
1940
Village Barn Dance
Minerva Withers
0.0
1940
Laddie
Sarah, the Housekeeper
6.0
1940
Swanee River
Temperance Woman
6.5
1939
A Child Is Born
Prison Matron (uncredited)
6.5
1939
Bad Little Angel
Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
4.9
1939
Blackmail
Sarah
6.4
1939
The Women
Ingrid (uncredited)
7.1
1939
Tell No Tales
Mrs. Haskins
5.3
1939
6,000 Enemies
Prison Matron
6.0
1939
Big Town Czar
Ma Daley
0.0
1939
Broadway Serenade
Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
6.2
1939
Sergeant Madden
Mrs. McGillivray
6.0
1939
Made for Each Other
Annie (uncredited)
6.2
1939
How to Sub-Let
Mrs. Mustavas
3.5
1939
The Great Man Votes
Mrs. Markham
6.1
1939
Girls on Probation
Mrs. Engstrom
5.9
1938
Prison Farm
Cora Waxley
5.7
1938
Stolen Heaven
Lieschen
0.0
1938
Condemned Women
Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
6.3
1938
The Awful Truth
Mrs. Leeson
7.2
1937
Dead End
Mrs. Fenner
7.0
1937
On Such a Night
Miss Belinda Fentridge
0.0
1937
Easy Living
Lillian
7.0
1937
Wild Money
Jenny Hawkins
0.0
1937
Damaged Goods
Mrs. Dupont
3.4
1937
Outcast
Hattie Simmerson
0.0
1937
Hollywood Boulevard
Martha
2.5
1936
Fury
Mrs. Whipple
7.5
1936
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Matilda
4.0
1936
The Farmer in the Dell
Ma Boyer
0.0
1936
Lady of Secrets
Miss Eccles
6.0
1936
Timothy's Quest
Hitty Tarbox
3.0
1936
The Great Impersonation
Mrs. Unthank
0.0
1935
I Dream Too Much
Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
4.9
1935
In Old Kentucky
Dolly Breckenridge
0.0
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Kate
0.0
1935
I Live My Life
Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
6.4
1935
Curly Top
Genevieve Graham
6.4
1935
Private Worlds
Matron
5.9
1935
The Wedding Night
Mrs. Kaise Novak
6.0
1935
Crime Without Passion
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
5.8
1934