1885-11-10 Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
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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North to Alaska | Woman at Picnic | 1960-11-07 |
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The Sound and the Fury | Mrs. Maud Mansfield | 1959-03-27 |
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The Oklahoman | Mrs. Fitzgerald | 1957-05-19 |
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki | Birdie Hicks | 1955-04-01 |
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Betrayed Women | Head Matron Ballard | 1955-07-17 |
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A Tale of Two Cities | Pross | 1953-05-03 |
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Monkey Business | Mrs. Rhinelander | 1952-09-03 |
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair | Birdie Hicks | 1952-07-11 |
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Too Young to Kiss | Mrs. Boykin | 1951-11-22 |
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On Moonlight Bay | 1951-07-26 | |
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Walk Softly, Stranger | Miss Thompson | 1950-10-14 |
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No Man of Her Own | Josie | 1950-02-21 |
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Surrender | Aunt May | 1950-09-15 |
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Holiday Affair | Mrs. Ennis | 1949-12-12 |
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Ma and Pa Kettle | Mrs. Birdie Hicks | 1949-04-01 |
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A Song Is Born | Miss Bragg | 1948-10-19 |
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The Unfinished Dance | Olga | 1947-09-19 |
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The Egg and I | Birdie Hicks | 1947-05-01 |
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Margie | Grandma McSweeney | 1946-10-15 |
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My Reputation | Anna | 1946-01-25 |
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Smoky | Mrs. 'Gram' Richards | 1946-06-26 |
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A Stolen Life | Mrs. Johnson | 1946-05-01 |
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Behind City Lights | Sarah Lowell | 1945-09-10 |
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On Stage Everybody | Ma Cassidy | 1945-07-13 |
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Bedside Manner | Martha Gravitt | 1945-06-22 |
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Old Acquaintance | Harriet | 1943-11-27 |
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The North Star | Anna Kurin | 1943-11-04 |
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Murder in Times Square | Longacre Lil | 1943-04-01 |
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | 1943-02-19 | |
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Swing Your Partner | Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins | 1943-05-20 |
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Maisie Gets Her Man | Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited) | 1942-06-01 |
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Wrecking Crew | Mike O'Glendy | 1942-11-07 |
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You're Telling Me | Aunt Fannie Handley | 1942-05-03 |
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Blondie Goes to College | Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady | 1942-01-15 |
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point | Mrs. Thompson | 1942-06-26 |
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A Letter From Bataan | Mrs. Jackson | 1942-09-15 |
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What's Cookin'? | Mrs. Murphy (uncredited) | 1942-02-20 |
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Unfinished Business | Aunt Mathilda | 1941-08-27 |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mrs. Krausheimer | 1941-01-31 |
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All-American Co-Ed | Aunt Matilda Collinge | 1941-10-31 |
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Dangerously They Live | Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper | 1941-12-24 |
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Back Street | Mrs. Smith | 1941-02-07 |
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Aloma of the South Seas | Tarusa | 1941-08-27 |
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Village Barn Dance | Minerva Withers | 1940-01-30 |
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Lincoln's Cook (uncredited) | 1940-02-22 |
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Cross-Country Romance | Mrs. McGillicuddy | 1940-07-12 |
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Forty Little Mothers | Mrs. Mason the Landlady | 1940-04-26 |
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And One Was Beautiful | Margaret | 1940-04-05 |
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Untamed | Mrs. Smith | 1940-07-24 |
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Convicted Woman | Chief Matron Brackett | 1940-01-31 |
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Opened by Mistake | Mrs. Anthony DeBorest | 1940-05-10 |
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble | Anna Vaughn | 1940-07-25 |
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Women Without Names | Head Matron Ingles | 1940-03-14 |
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Arise, My Love | Susie | 1940-11-08 |
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The Mortal Storm | Marta | 1940-06-20 |
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Laddie | Sarah, the Housekeeper | 1940-01-18 |
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How to Sub-Let | Mrs. Mustavas | 1939-01-29 |
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Big Town Czar | Ma Daley | 1939-05-03 |
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Made for Each Other | Annie (uncredited) | 1939-02-10 |
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The Great Man Votes | Mrs. Markham | 1939-01-13 |
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A Child Is Born | Prison Matron (uncredited) | 1939-12-07 |
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6,000 Enemies | Prison Matron | 1939-06-09 |
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Broadway Serenade | Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady | 1939-04-07 |
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Bad Little Angel | Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited) | 1939-10-27 |
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Blackmail | Sarah | 1939-09-08 |
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The Women | Ingrid (uncredited) | 1939-09-01 |
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Tell No Tales | Mrs. Haskins | 1939-06-12 |
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Swanee River | Temperance Woman | 1939-12-29 |
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Sergeant Madden | Mrs. McGillivray | 1939-03-24 |
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Prison Farm | Cora Waxley | 1938-06-17 |
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Stolen Heaven | Lieschen | 1938-05-11 |
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Condemned Women | Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron | 1938-03-18 |
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Girls on Probation | Mrs. Engstrom | 1938-10-22 |
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Wild Money | Jenny Hawkins | 1937-07-09 |
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Dead End | Mrs. Fenner | 1937-08-27 |
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Easy Living | Lillian | 1937-07-16 |
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The Awful Truth | Mrs. Leeson | 1937-10-21 |
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On Such a Night | Miss Belinda Fentridge | 1937-08-27 |
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Damaged Goods | Mrs. Dupont | 1937-05-22 |
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Outcast | Hattie Simmerson | 1937-02-05 |
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Fury | Mrs. Whipple | 1936-06-05 |
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Lady of Secrets | Miss Eccles | 1936-02-21 |
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Timothy's Quest | Hitty Tarbox | 1936-01-31 |
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The Farmer in the Dell | Ma Boyer | 1936-03-27 |
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Hollywood Boulevard | Martha | 1936-08-20 |
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The Case Against Mrs. Ames | Matilda | 1936-05-08 |
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In Old Kentucky | Dolly Breckenridge | 1935-11-28 |
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Curly Top | Genevieve Graham | 1935-07-26 |
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Mary Burns, Fugitive | Kate | 1935-11-15 |
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Private Worlds | Matron | 1935-04-19 |
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I Live My Life | Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper | 1935-10-04 |
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The Wedding Night | Mrs. Kaise Novak | 1935-03-08 |
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The Great Impersonation | Mrs. Unthank | 1935-12-08 |
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I Dream Too Much | Mrs. Dilley (uncredited) | 1935-11-29 |
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Crime Without Passion | Miss Keeley (uncredited) | 1934-08-30 |
