Esther Dale

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Awful Truth (1937) — Mrs. Leeson
2. Monkey Business (1952) — Mrs. Rhinelander
3. Fury (1936) — Mrs. Whipple
4. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) — Mrs. Krausheimer
5. The Women (1939) — Ingrid (uncredited)
6. Dead End (1937) — Mrs. Fenner
7. North to Alaska (1960) — Woman at Picnic
8. The Mortal Storm (1940) — Marta
9. Holiday Affair (1949) — Mrs. Ennis
10. Easy Living (1937) — Lillian
11. A Stolen Life (1946) — Mrs. Johnson
12. Made for Each Other (1939) — Annie (uncredited)
13. No Man of Her Own (1950) — Josie
14. The Egg and I (1947) — Birdie Hicks
15. A Song Is Born (1948) — Miss Bragg
16. Curly Top (1935) — Genevieve Graham
17. Maverick (1957) — Ma Braus
18. Old Acquaintance (1943) — Harriet
19. On Moonlight Bay (1951)
20. The North Star (1943) — Anna Kurin
21. Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) — Miss Thompson
22. The Wedding Night (1935) — Mrs. Kaise Novak
23. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) — Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
24. Crime Without Passion (1934) — Miss Keeley (uncredited)
25. Arise, My Love (1940) — Susie
26. My Reputation (1946) — Anna
27. Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) — Mrs. Birdie Hicks
28. Thriller (1960) — Ellen the Maid
29. The Donna Reed Show (1958)
30. The Sound and the Fury (1959) — Mrs. Maud Mansfield
31. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
32. I Dream Too Much (1935) — Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
33. All-American Co-Ed (1941) — Aunt Matilda Collinge
34. The Oklahoman (1957) — Mrs. Fitzgerald
35. Back Street (1941) — Mrs. Smith
36. Dangerously They Live (1941) — Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
37. Too Young to Kiss (1951) — Mrs. Boykin
38. Four Star Playhouse (1952) — Mrs. Weston
39. The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
40. Private Worlds (1935) — Matron