Esther Dale

Esther Dale

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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Movies starring Esther Dale (95)

North to Alaska (1960)

Woman At Picnic

The Oklahoman (1957)

Mrs. Fitzgerald

Betrayed Women (1955)

Head Matron Ballard

Monkey Business (1952)

Mrs. Rhinelander

Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)

Mrs. Birdie Hicks

Margie (1946)

Grandma Mcsweeney

Smoky (1946)

Mrs. 'Gram' Richards

Bedside Manner (1945)

Martha Gravitt

Swing Your Partner (1943)

Caroline Bird, Aka Anna Robbins

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Mrs. Mcintyre (Uncredited)

You're Telling Me (1942)

Aunt Fannie Handley

What's Cookin'? (1942)

Mrs. Murphy (Uncredited)

Blondie Goes to College (1942)

Mrs. Carrie Dill, The Landlady

Dangerously They Live (1941)

Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper

All-American Co-Ed (1941)

Aunt Matilda Collinge

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

Mrs. Krausheimer

Untamed (1940)

Mrs. Smith

Opened by Mistake (1940)

Mrs. Anthony Deborest

Forty Little Mothers (1940)

Mrs. Mason The Landlady

Women Without Names (1940)

Head Matron Ingles

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Lincoln's Cook (Uncredited)

Convicted Woman (1940)

Chief Matron Brackett

Laddie (1940)

Sarah, The Housekeeper

Swanee River (1939)

Temperance Woman

A Child is Born (1939)

Prison Matron (Uncredited)

Bad Little Angel (1939)

Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (Uncredited)

The Women (1939)

Ingrid (Uncredited)

Broadway Serenade (1939)

Mrs. Olsen, The Landlady

Sergeant Madden (1939)

Mrs. Mcgillivray

Made for Each Other (1939)

Annie (Uncredited)

Condemned Women (1938)

Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

On Such a Night (1937)

Miss Belinda Fentridge

Dead End (1937)

Mrs. Fenner

Wild Money (1937)

Jenny Hawkins

Outcast (1937)

Hattie Simmerson

Fury (1936)

Mrs. Whipple

I Dream Too Much (1935)

Mrs. Dilley (Uncredited)

In Old Kentucky (1935)

Dolly Breckenridge

I Live My Life (1935)

Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper

Curly Top (1935)

Genevieve Graham

The Wedding Night (1935)

Mrs. Kaise Novak

Crime Without Passion (1934)

Miss Keeley (Uncredited)

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