Esther Dale
Biography
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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.
Acting (94 movies)
The Mortal Storm
1940
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940
Monkey Business
1952
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
Holiday Affair
1949
Dead End
1937
No Man of Her Own
1950
Curly Top
1935
The Awful Truth
1937
Bedside Manner
1945
A Stolen Life
1946
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Dangerously They Live
1941
Bad Little Angel
1939
All-American Co-Ed
1941
I Dream Too Much
1935
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
The Unfinished Dance
1947
Private Worlds
1935
My Reputation
1946
The Oklahoman
1957
Blackmail
1939
Murder in Times Square
1943
Back Street
1941
Margie
1946
Broadway Serenade
1939
Convicted Woman
1940
And One Was Beautiful
1940
Aloma of the South Seas
1941
Stolen Heaven
1938
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936
Condemned Women
1938
Women Without Names
1940
Arise, My Love
1940
Smoky
1946
6,000 Enemies
1939
The Great Man Votes
1939
The Wedding Night
1935
The North Star
1943
Laddie
1940
Easy Living
1937
Tell No Tales
1939
Prison Farm
1938
Girls on Probation
1938
Old Acquaintance
1943
Damaged Goods
1937
Made for Each Other
1939
A Letter From Bataan
1942
A Child Is Born
1939
The Women
1939
In Old Kentucky
1935
Swanee River
1939
Sergeant Madden
1939
On Such a Night
1937
Fury
1936
Timothy's Quest
1936
Untamed
1940
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Betrayed Women
1955
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
Wild Money
1937
What's Cookin'?
1942
The Farmer in the Dell
1936
Behind City Lights
1945
Cross-Country Romance
1940
I Live My Life
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
Blondie Goes to College
1942
Surrender
1950
Forty Little Mothers
1940
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
How to Sub-Let
1939
Big Town Czar
1939
Outcast
1937
North to Alaska
1960
Unfinished Business
1941
You're Telling Me
1942
A Song Is Born
1948
Wrecking Crew
1942
The Sound and the Fury
1959
The Egg and I
1947
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
Swing Your Partner
1943
The Great Impersonation
1935
On Stage Everybody
1945
Too Young to Kiss
1951
Crime Without Passion
1934
A Tale of Two Cities
1953
Lady of Secrets
1936
Opened by Mistake
1940
On Moonlight Bay
1951
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