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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA, 1885-11-10

Died: 1961-07-23

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Crime Without Passion	Miss Keeley (uncredited)	58
2	1935	The Wedding Night	Mrs. Kaise Novak	60
3	1935	Private Worlds	Matron	59
4	1935	Curly Top	Genevieve Graham	64
5	1935	I Live My Life	Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper	64
6	1935	Mary Burns, Fugitive	Kate	0
7	1935	In Old Kentucky	Dolly Breckenridge	0
8	1935	I Dream Too Much	Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)	49
9	1935	The Great Impersonation	Mrs. Unthank	0
10	1936	Timothy's Quest	Hitty Tarbox	30
11	1936	Lady of Secrets	Miss Eccles	60
12	1936	The Farmer in the Dell	Ma Boyer	0
13	1936	The Case Against Mrs. Ames	Matilda	40
14	1936	Fury	Mrs. Whipple	75
15	1936	Hollywood Boulevard	Martha	25
16	1937	Outcast	Hattie Simmerson	0
17	1937	Damaged Goods	Mrs. Dupont	34
18	1937	Wild Money	Jenny Hawkins	0
19	1937	Easy Living	Lillian	70
20	1937	Dead End	Mrs. Fenner	70
21	1937	On Such a Night	Miss Belinda Fentridge	0
22	1937	The Awful Truth	Mrs. Leeson	72
23	1938	Condemned Women	Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron	63
24	1938	Stolen Heaven	Lieschen	0
25	1938	Prison Farm	Cora Waxley	57
26	1938	Girls on Probation	Mrs. Engstrom	59
27	1939	The Great Man Votes	Mrs. Markham	61
28	1939	How to Sub-Let	Mrs. Mustavas	35
29	1939	Made for Each Other	Annie (uncredited)	62
30	1939	Sergeant Madden	Mrs. McGillivray	60
31	1939	Broadway Serenade	Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady	62
32	1939	Big Town Czar	Ma Daley	0
33	1939	6,000 Enemies	Prison Matron	60
34	1939	Tell No Tales	Mrs. Haskins	53
35	1939	The Women	Ingrid (uncredited)	71
36	1939	Blackmail	Sarah	64
37	1939	Bad Little Angel	Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)	49
38	1939	A Child Is Born	Prison Matron (uncredited)	65
39	1939	Swanee River	Temperance Woman	65
40	1940	Laddie	Sarah, the Housekeeper	60
41	1940	Village Barn Dance	Minerva Withers	0
42	1940	Convicted Woman	Chief Matron Brackett	37
43	1940	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)	70
44	1940	Women Without Names	Head Matron Ingles	48
45	1940	And One Was Beautiful	Margaret	62
46	1940	Forty Little Mothers	Mrs. Mason the Landlady	62
47	1940	Opened by Mistake	Mrs. Anthony DeBorest	0
48	1940	The Mortal Storm	Marta	72
49	1940	Cross-Country Romance	Mrs. McGillicuddy	64
50	1940	Untamed	Mrs. Smith	43
51	1940	Blondie Has Servant Trouble	Anna Vaughn	72
52	1940	Arise, My Love	Susie	61
53	1941	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Mrs. Krausheimer	62
54	1941	Back Street	Mrs. Smith	72
55	1941	Aloma of the South Seas	Tarusa	57
56	1941	Unfinished Business	Aunt Mathilda	53
57	1941	All-American Co-Ed	Aunt Matilda Collinge	42
58	1941	Dangerously They Live	Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper	59
59	1942	Blondie Goes to College	Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady	64
60	1942	What's Cookin'?	Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)	55
61	1942	You're Telling Me	Aunt Fannie Handley	0
62	1942	Maisie Gets Her Man	Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)	65
63	1942	Ten Gentlemen from West Point	Mrs. Thompson	58
64	1942	A Letter From Bataan	Mrs. Jackson	45
65	1942	Wrecking Crew	Mike O'Glendy	55
66	1943	The Amazing Mrs. Holliday		64
67	1943	Murder in Times Square	Longacre Lil	46
68	1943	Swing Your Partner	Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins	0
69	1943	The North Star	Anna Kurin	61
70	1943	Old Acquaintance	Harriet	69
71	1945	Her Favorite Patient	Martha Gravitt	58
72	1945	On Stage Everybody	Ma Cassidy	0
73	1945	Behind City Lights	Sarah Lowell	0
74	1946	My Reputation	Anna	71
75	1946	A Stolen Life	Mrs. Johnson	64
76	1946	Smoky	Mrs. 'Gram' Richards	52
77	1946	Margie	Grandma McSweeney	69
78	1947	The Egg and I	Birdie Hicks	70
79	1947	The Unfinished Dance	Olga	60
80	1948	A Song Is Born	Miss Bragg	65
81	1949	Ma and Pa Kettle	Mrs. Birdie Hicks	72
82	1949	Holiday Affair	Mrs. Ennis	68
83	1950	No Man of Her Own	Josie	69
84	1950	Surrender	Aunt May	48
85	1950	Walk Softly, Stranger	Miss Thompson	50
86	1951	On Moonlight Bay		64
87	1951	Too Young to Kiss	Mrs. Boykin	50
88	1952	Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair	Birdie Hicks	59
89	1952	Monkey Business	Mrs. Rhinelander	67
90	1953	A Tale of Two Cities	Pross	0
91	1955	Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki	Birdie Hicks	68
92	1955	Betrayed Women	Head Matron Ballard	47
93	1957	The Oklahoman	Mrs. Fitzgerald	56
94	1959	The Sound and the Fury	Mrs. Maud Mansfield	66
95	1960	North to Alaska	Woman at Picnic	66

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Mrs. Weston	61
2	1952	Cavalcade of America	Aunt Tabitha	35
3	1952	Mr. & Mrs. North		48
4	1954	December Bride		55
5	1957	M Squad	Julia Sheldon	52
6	1957	Maverick	Ma Braus	68
7	1958	The Donna Reed Show		63
8	1959	Lock-Up		62
9	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis		59
10	1960	Thriller	Ellen the Maid	64