Movies List
TV Show List
The Oklahoman

as Mrs. Fitzgerald

1957
Monkey Business

as Mrs. Rhinelander

1952
Too Young to Kiss

as Mrs. Boykin

1951
Walk Softly, Stranger

as Miss Thompson

1950
Holiday Affair

as Mrs. Ennis

1949
A Stolen Life

as Mrs. Johnson

1946
Margie

as Grandma McSweeney

1946
My Reputation

as Anna

1946
Behind City Lights

as Sarah Lowell

1945
Old Acquaintance

as Harriet

1943
Murder in Times Square

as Longacre Lil

1943
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

as Mrs. Krausheimer

1941
Dangerously They Live

as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper

1941
Unfinished Business

as Aunt Mathilda

1941
Back Street

as Mrs. Smith

1941
Aloma of the South Seas

as Tarusa

1941
Convicted Woman

as Chief Matron Brackett

1940
Arise, My Love

as Susie

1940
And One Was Beautiful

as Margaret

1940
Village Barn Dance

as Minerva Withers

1940
Untamed

as Mrs. Smith

1940
Blackmail

as Sarah

1939
Condemned Women

as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

1938
Prison Farm

as Cora Waxley

1938
The Awful Truth

as Mrs. Leeson

1937
Easy Living

as Lillian

1937
Curly Top

as Genevieve Graham

1935
The Wedding Night

as Mrs. Kaise Novak

1935
Crime Without Passion

as Miss Keeley (uncredited)

1934
Esther Dale Esther Dale

Birthday

1885-11-10

Place of Birth

Beaufort, South Carolina, USA

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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