Esther Dale
female
Born on November 10, 1885 (140 years old)
Passed Away on July 23, 1961
From Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Known for 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.
Cast Credits
- 1960
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- 1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
as
Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
1942
A Letter From Bataan
as
Mrs. Jackson
1942
What's Cookin'?
as
Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
1942
Blondie Goes to College
as
Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as
Mrs. Thompson
1942
You're Telling Me
as
Aunt Fannie Handley
1942
Wrecking Crew
as
Mike O'Glendy
1942
- 1941
- 1940
The Mortal Storm
as
Marta
1940
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as
Anna Vaughn
1940
Convicted Woman
as
Chief Matron Brackett
1940
And One Was Beautiful
as
Margaret
1940
Women Without Names
as
Head Matron Ingles
1940
Arise, My Love
as
Susie
1940
Laddie
as
Sarah, the Housekeeper
1940
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Village Barn Dance
as
Minerva Withers
1940
Untamed
as
Mrs. Smith
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as
Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
1940
Cross-Country Romance
as
Mrs. McGillicuddy
1940
Forty Little Mothers
as
Mrs. Mason the Landlady
1940
Opened by Mistake
as
Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
1940
- 1939
Bad Little Angel
as
Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
1939
Blackmail
as
Sarah
1939
Broadway Serenade
as
Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
1939
6,000 Enemies
as
Prison Matron
1939
The Great Man Votes
as
Mrs. Markham
1939
Tell No Tales
as
Mrs. Haskins
1939
Made for Each Other
as
Annie (uncredited)
1939
A Child Is Born
as
Prison Matron (uncredited)
1939
The Women
as
Ingrid (uncredited)
1939
Swanee River
as
Temperance Woman
1939
Sergeant Madden
as
Mrs. McGillivray
1939
How to Sub-Let
as
Mrs. Mustavas
1939
Big Town Czar
as
Ma Daley
1939
- 1938
- 1937
- 1936
- 1935
Curly Top
as
Genevieve Graham
1935
I Dream Too Much
as
Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
1935
Private Worlds
as
Matron
1935
The Wedding Night
as
Mrs. Kaise Novak
1935
In Old Kentucky
as
Dolly Breckenridge
1935
I Live My Life
as
Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
as
Kate
1935
The Great Impersonation
as
Mrs. Unthank
1935
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