Esther Dale
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: November 8, 1885
Day of Death: July 23, 1961 (76 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Actor Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
Maisie Gets Her Man
Actor Mrs. Jackson
A Letter From Bataan
Actor Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
What's Cookin'?
Actor Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
Blondie Goes to College
Actor Mrs. Thompson
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Actor Aunt Fannie Handley
You're Telling Me
Actor Mike O'Glendy
Wrecking Crew
1941
1940
Actor Marta
The Mortal Storm
Actor Anna Vaughn
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Actor Chief Matron Brackett
Convicted Woman
Actor Margaret
And One Was Beautiful
Actor Head Matron Ingles
Women Without Names
Actor Susie
Arise, My Love
Actor Sarah, the Housekeeper
Laddie
Actor Minerva Withers
Village Barn Dance
Actor Mrs. Smith
Untamed
Actor Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Actor Mrs. McGillicuddy
Cross-Country Romance
Actor Mrs. Mason the Landlady
Forty Little Mothers
Actor Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
Opened by Mistake
1939
Actor Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
Bad Little Angel
Actor Sarah
Blackmail
Actor Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
Broadway Serenade
Actor Prison Matron
6,000 Enemies
Actor Mrs. Markham
The Great Man Votes
Actor Mrs. Haskins
Tell No Tales
Actor Annie (uncredited)
Made for Each Other
Actor Prison Matron (uncredited)
A Child Is Born
Actor Ingrid (uncredited)
The Women
Actor Temperance Woman
Swanee River
Actor Mrs. McGillivray
Sergeant Madden
Actor Mrs. Mustavas
How to Sub-Let
Actor Ma Daley
Big Town Czar
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Actor Genevieve Graham
Curly Top
Actor Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
I Dream Too Much
Actor Matron
Private Worlds
Actor Mrs. Kaise Novak
The Wedding Night
Actor Dolly Breckenridge
In Old Kentucky
Actor Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
I Live My Life
Actor Kate
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Actor Mrs. Unthank
The Great Impersonation