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