Esther Dale

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

140

Movies

Born: November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961
From: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA

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.

Works

95 films

The Women

19397.2

North to Alaska

19606.5

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

19416.0

The Awful Truth

19377.2

Stolen Heaven

19387.0

Monkey Business

19526.7

Dead End

19377.1

Fury

19367.5

Holiday Affair

19496.9

The Egg and I

19477.1

A Song Is Born

19486.4

The Oklahoman

19575.8

Ma and Pa Kettle

19497.3

The Mortal Storm

19407.3

A Stolen Life

19466.4

No Man of Her Own

19506.9

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

19407.0

Easy Living

19377.2

Made for Each Other

19396.1

My Reputation

19467.3

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

19526.6

Back Street

19417.3

The North Star

19436.0

Arise, My Love

19406.3

Curly Top

19356.5

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

19556.8

The Sound and the Fury

19596.8

Aloma of the South Seas

19417.0

In Old Kentucky

193510.0

Margie

19467.1

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

19426.4

On Moonlight Bay

19516.5

Dangerously They Live

19416.3

Women Without Names

19404.7

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

19436.7

Too Young to Kiss

19515.1

Hollywood Boulevard

19364.5

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

19406.9

Outcast

19378.0

Laddie

19406.6

I Dream Too Much

19355.4

A Child is Born

19397.1

Swanee River

19397.0

Old Acquaintance

19437.1

Blackmail

19396.9

Walk Softly, Stranger

19505.1

Wild Money

19378.0

Convicted Woman

19404.6

Broadway Serenade

19396.6

Sergeant Madden

19397.5

Condemned Women

19387.3

Prison Farm

19386.8

Tell No Tales

19395.4

Village Barn Dance

19408.0

The Case Against Mrs. Ames

19365.0

I Live My Life

19356.7

The Wedding Night

19355.9

Opened by Mistake

19407.0

The Unfinished Dance

19476.4

Bad Little Angel

19395.5

The Great Impersonation

19357.5

Murder in Times Square

19434.7

All-American Co-Ed

19414.4

Smoky

19465.7

Big Town Czar

19397.0

Blondie Goes to College

19426.6

Private Worlds

19356.4

Betrayed Women

19555.1

On Stage Everybody

19458.0

Cross-Country Romance

19406.7

Forty Little Mothers

19406.5

The Great Man Votes

19396.4

6,000 Enemies

19396.1

Mary Burns, Fugitive

19359.0

The Farmer in the Dell

19367.0

Maisie Gets Her Man

19426.7

Girls on Probation

19386.2

Timothy's Quest

19364.7

Crime Without Passion

19345.9

Unfinished Business

19416.5

You're Telling Me

194210.0

And One Was Beautiful

19406.7

A Letter From Bataan

19425.2

A Tale of Two Cities

19539.0

Damaged Goods

19373.6

Lady of Secrets

19366.7

Untamed

19405.0

Wrecking Crew

19427.0

Behind City Lights

19457.0

Bedside Manner

19455.9

Surrender

19504.8

What's Cookin'?

19427.0

Swing Your Partner

194310.0

How to Sub-Let

19395.8

On Such a Night

19377.0