Esther Dale
Birthday: 1885-11-10
Deathday: 1961-07-23
Birthplace: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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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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1960-11-07 | North to Alaska | Woman at Picnic |
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1959-03-27 | The Sound and the Fury | Mrs. Maud Mansfield |
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1957-05-19 | The Oklahoman | Mrs. Fitzgerald |
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1955-07-17 | Betrayed Women | Head Matron Ballard |
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1955-04-01 | Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki | Birdie Hicks |
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1953-05-03 | A Tale of Two Cities | Pross |
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1952-09-03 | Monkey Business | Mrs. Rhinelander |
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1952-07-11 | Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair | Birdie Hicks |
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1951-11-22 | Too Young to Kiss | Mrs. Boykin |
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1951-07-26 | On Moonlight Bay | |
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1950-10-14 | Walk Softly, Stranger | Miss Thompson |
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1950-09-15 | Surrender | Aunt May |
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1950-02-21 | No Man of Her Own | Josie |
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1949-12-12 | Holiday Affair | Mrs. Ennis |
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1949-04-01 | Ma and Pa Kettle | Mrs. Birdie Hicks |
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1948-10-19 | A Song Is Born | Miss Bragg |
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1947-09-19 | The Unfinished Dance | Olga |
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1947-05-01 | The Egg and I | Birdie Hicks |
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1946-10-15 | Margie | Grandma McSweeney |
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1946-06-26 | Smoky | Mrs. 'Gram' Richards |
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1946-05-01 | A Stolen Life | Mrs. Johnson |
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1946-01-25 | My Reputation | Anna |
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1945-09-10 | Behind City Lights | Sarah Lowell |
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1945-07-13 | On Stage Everybody | Ma Cassidy |
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1945-06-22 | Her Favorite Patient | Martha Gravitt |
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1943-11-27 | Old Acquaintance | Harriet |
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1943-11-04 | The North Star | Anna Kurin |
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1943-05-20 | Swing Your Partner | Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins |
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1943-04-01 | Murder in Times Square | Longacre Lil |
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1943-02-19 | The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | |
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1942-11-07 | Wrecking Crew | Mike O'Glendy |
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1942-09-15 | A Letter From Bataan | Mrs. Jackson |
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1942-06-26 | Ten Gentlemen from West Point | Mrs. Thompson |
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1942-06-01 | Maisie Gets Her Man | Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited) |
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1942-05-03 | You're Telling Me | Aunt Fannie Handley |
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1942-02-20 | What's Cookin'? | Mrs. Murphy (uncredited) |
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1942-01-15 | Blondie Goes to College | Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady |
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1941-12-24 | Dangerously They Live | Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper |
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1941-10-31 | All-American Co-Ed | Aunt Matilda Collinge |
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1941-08-27 | Aloma of the South Seas | Tarusa |
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1941-08-27 | Unfinished Business | Aunt Mathilda |
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1941-02-07 | Back Street | Mrs. Smith |
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1941-01-31 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mrs. Krausheimer |
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1940-11-08 | Arise, My Love | Susie |
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1940-07-25 | Blondie Has Servant Trouble | Anna Vaughn |
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1940-07-24 | Untamed | Mrs. Smith |
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1940-07-12 | Cross-Country Romance | Mrs. McGillicuddy |
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1940-06-20 | The Mortal Storm | Marta |
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1940-05-10 | Opened by Mistake | Mrs. Anthony DeBorest |
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1940-04-26 | Forty Little Mothers | Mrs. Mason the Landlady |
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1940-04-05 | And One Was Beautiful | Margaret |
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1940-03-14 | Women Without Names | Head Matron Ingles |
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1940-02-22 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Lincoln's Cook (uncredited) |
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1940-01-31 | Convicted Woman | Chief Matron Brackett |
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1940-01-30 | Village Barn Dance | Minerva Withers |
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1940-01-18 | Laddie | Sarah, the Housekeeper |
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1939-12-29 | Swanee River | Temperance Woman |
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1939-12-07 | A Child Is Born | Prison Matron (uncredited) |
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1939-10-27 | Bad Little Angel | Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited) |
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1939-09-08 | Blackmail | Sarah |
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1939-09-01 | The Women | Ingrid (uncredited) |
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1939-06-12 | Tell No Tales | Mrs. Haskins |
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1939-06-09 | 6,000 Enemies | Prison Matron |
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1939-05-03 | Big Town Czar | Ma Daley |
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1939-04-07 | Broadway Serenade | Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady |
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1939-03-24 | Sergeant Madden | Mrs. McGillivray |
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1939-02-10 | Made for Each Other | Annie (uncredited) |
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1939-01-29 | How to Sub-Let | Mrs. Mustavas |
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1939-01-13 | The Great Man Votes | Mrs. Markham |
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1938-10-22 | Girls on Probation | Mrs. Engstrom |
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1938-06-17 | Prison Farm | Cora Waxley |
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1938-05-11 | Stolen Heaven | Lieschen |
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1938-03-18 | Condemned Women | Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron |
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1937-10-21 | The Awful Truth | Mrs. Leeson |
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1937-08-27 | Dead End | Mrs. Fenner |
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1937-08-27 | On Such a Night | Miss Belinda Fentridge |
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1937-07-16 | Easy Living | Lillian |
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1937-07-09 | Wild Money | Jenny Hawkins |
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1937-05-22 | Damaged Goods | Mrs. Dupont |
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1937-02-05 | Outcast | Hattie Simmerson |
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1936-08-20 | Hollywood Boulevard | Martha |
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1936-06-05 | Fury | Mrs. Whipple |
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1936-05-08 | The Case Against Mrs. Ames | Matilda |
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1936-03-27 | The Farmer in the Dell | Ma Boyer |
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1936-02-21 | Lady of Secrets | Miss Eccles |
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1936-01-31 | Timothy's Quest | Hitty Tarbox |
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1935-12-08 | The Great Impersonation | Mrs. Unthank |
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1935-11-29 | I Dream Too Much | Mrs. Dilley (uncredited) |
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1935-11-28 | In Old Kentucky | Dolly Breckenridge |
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1935-11-15 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Kate |
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1935-10-04 | I Live My Life | Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper |
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1935-07-26 | Curly Top | Genevieve Graham |
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1935-04-19 | Private Worlds | Matron |
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1935-03-08 | The Wedding Night | Mrs. Kaise Novak |
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1934-08-30 | Crime Without Passion | Miss Keeley (uncredited) |