Esther Dale
Acting
🎂 1885-11-10
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.
Cast credits(105)
Ellen the Maid
1960
Julia Sheldon
1957
1952
Ma Braus
1957
1954
1958
1959
1959
Mrs. Weston
1952
Aunt Tabitha
1952
Annie (uncredited)
1939
Woman at Picnic
1960
Ingrid (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Leeson
1937
Mrs. Whipple
1936
Anna Kurin
1943
Mrs. Maud Mansfield
1959
Marta
1940
Mrs. Krausheimer
1941
Mrs. Rhinelander
1952
Mrs. Ennis
1949
Josie
1950
Mrs. Fenner
1937
Mrs. Johnson
1946
Anna
1946
Miss Bragg
1948
Lillian
1937
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
1934
1943
Genevieve Graham
1935
Mrs. Boykin
1951
Mrs. Fitzgerald
1957
1951
Mrs. Thompson
1942
Susie
1940
Mrs. Kaise Novak
1935
Birdie Hicks
1947
Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
1939
Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
1941
Longacre Lil
1943
Grandma McSweeney
1946
Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
1935
Chief Matron Brackett
1940
Margaret
1940
Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
1940
Cora Waxley
1938
Sarah
1939
Miss Thompson
1950
Martha
1936
Mrs. Mason the Landlady
1940
Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
1942
Harriet
1943
Mrs. McGillicuddy
1940
Mrs. McGillivray
1939
Mrs. Haskins
1939
Temperance Woman
1939
Mrs. Smith
1941
Miss Belinda Fentridge
1937
Kate
1935
Pross
1953
Martha Gravitt
1945
Aunt May
1950
Ma Daley
1939
Matron
1935
Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Mustavas
1939
Aunt Matilda Collinge
1941
Hattie Simmerson
1937
Head Matron Ingles
1940
Prison Matron
1939
Dolly Breckenridge
1935
Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
1939
Olga
1947
Prison Matron (uncredited)
1939
Mrs. Birdie Hicks
1949
Ma Boyer
1936
Mrs. Smith
1940
Matilda
1936
Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
1938
Mrs. Markham
1939
Birdie Hicks
1952
Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
1946
Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Unthank
1935
Anna Vaughn
1940
Mike O'Glendy
1942
Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
1935
Mrs. Dupont
1937
Aunt Mathilda
1941
Ma Cassidy
1945
Lieschen
1938
Jenny Hawkins
1937
Sarah Lowell
1945
Head Matron Ballard
1955
Hitty Tarbox
1936
Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
1943
Birdie Hicks
1955
Mrs. Engstrom
1938
Sarah, the Housekeeper
1940
Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
1940
Tarusa
1941
Aunt Fannie Handley
1942
Mrs. Jackson
1942
Minerva Withers
1940
Miss Eccles
1936