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.
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Movies (40)
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
1960
The Sound and the Fury
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
1959
The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
1957
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
1955
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
1955
A Tale of Two Cities
as Pross
1953
Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Birdie Hicks
1952
Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
1951
On Moonlight Bay
1951
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
1950
Surrender
as Aunt May
1950
No Man of Her Own
as Josie
1950
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
1949
A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
1948
The Unfinished Dance
as Olga
1947
The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
1947
Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
1946
Smoky
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
1946
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
1946
My Reputation
as Anna
1946
Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
1945
On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
1945
Bedside Manner
as Martha Gravitt
1945
Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
1943
The North Star
as Anna Kurin
1943
Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
1943
Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil
1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
1942
A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson
1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson
1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
1942
You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley
1942
What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
1942
Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
1942
Dangerously They Live
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
1941
All-American Co-Ed
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
1941
Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa
1941
