
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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