Esther Dale
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.
105 acting credits
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Maverick
1957
Four Star Playhouse
1952
Thriller
1960
The Donna Reed Show
1958
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
M Squad
1957
Cavalcade of America
1952
Lock-Up
1959
December Bride
1954
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
The Women
1939
The Awful Truth
1937
Fury
1936
North to Alaska
1960
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
Monkey Business
1952
The Mortal Storm
1940
Dead End
1937
The Egg and I
1947
The North Star
1943
A Song Is Born
1948
My Reputation
1946
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Margie
1946
Easy Living
1937
Made for Each Other
1939
A Stolen Life
1946
Holiday Affair
1949
On Moonlight Bay
1951
The Sound and the Fury
1959
The Oklahoman
1957
No Man of Her Own
1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Broadway Serenade
1939
Blackmail
1939
Curly Top
1935
Arise, My Love
1940
Old Acquaintance
1943
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
On Such a Night
1937
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Private Worlds
1935
Smoky
1946
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
Swing Your Partner
1943
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955
Back Street
1941
The Unfinished Dance
1947
Untamed
1940
Stolen Heaven
1938
Crime Without Passion
1934
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940
The Wedding Night
1935
Sergeant Madden
1939
Bedside Manner
1945
Dangerously They Live
1941
Surrender
1950
I Live My Life
1935
I Dream Too Much
1935
Lady of Secrets
1936
The Great Man Votes
1939
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
Swanee River
1939
All-American Co-Ed
1941
Blondie Goes to College
1942
Wild Money
1937
Big Town Czar
1939
Aloma of the South Seas
1941
Forty Little Mothers
1940
Laddie
1940
Too Young to Kiss
1951
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Unfinished Business
1941
Timothy's Quest
1936
Murder in Times Square
1943
What's Cookin'?
1942
A Letter From Bataan
1942
A Tale of Two Cities
1953
Convicted Woman
1940
In Old Kentucky
1935
Behind City Lights
1945
Outcast
1937
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
Girls on Probation
1938
Prison Farm
1938
The Farmer in the Dell
1936
Tell No Tales
1939
Wrecking Crew
1942
And One Was Beautiful
1940
Cross-Country Romance
1940
6,000 Enemies
1939
Women Without Names
1940
A Child is Born
1939
Opened by Mistake
1940
Bad Little Angel
1939
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
The Great Impersonation
1935
Betrayed Women
1955
On Stage Everybody
1945
Condemned Women
1938
Village Barn Dance
1940
You're Telling Me
1942
Damaged Goods
1937
How to Sub-Let
1939