Esther Dale
November 8, 1885 (139 years old) in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
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
Credits
- 1960 · North to Alaska as Woman at Picnic
- 1960 · Thriller as Ellen the Maid
- 1959 · The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as
- 1959 · Lock-Up as
- 1959 · The Sound and the Fury as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
- 1958 · The Donna Reed Show as
- 1957 · Maverick as Ma Braus
- 1957 · M Squad as Julia Sheldon
- 1957 · The Oklahoman as Mrs. Fitzgerald
- 1955 · Betrayed Women as Head Matron Ballard
- 1955 · Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki as Birdie Hicks
- 1954 · December Bride as
- 1953 · A Tale of Two Cities as Pross
- 1952 · Mr. & Mrs. North as
- 1952 · Cavalcade of America as Aunt Tabitha
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Mrs. Weston
- 1952 · Monkey Business as Mrs. Rhinelander
- 1952 · Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair as Birdie Hicks
- 1951 · Too Young to Kiss as Mrs. Boykin
- 1951 · On Moonlight Bay as
- 1950 · Walk Softly, Stranger as Miss Thompson
- 1950 · Surrender as Aunt May
- 1950 · No Man of Her Own as Josie
- 1949 · Holiday Affair as Mrs. Ennis
- 1949 · Ma and Pa Kettle as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
- 1948 · A Song Is Born as Miss Bragg
- 1947 · The Unfinished Dance as Olga
- 1947 · The Egg and I as Birdie Hicks
- 1946 · Margie as Grandma McSweeney
- 1946 · Smoky as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
- 1946 · A Stolen Life as Mrs. Johnson
- 1946 · My Reputation as Anna
- 1945 · Behind City Lights as Sarah Lowell
- 1945 · On Stage Everybody as Ma Cassidy
- 1945 · Her Favorite Patient as Martha Gravitt
- 1943 · Old Acquaintance as Harriet
- 1943 · The North Star as Anna Kurin
- 1943 · Swing Your Partner as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
- 1943 · Murder in Times Square as Longacre Lil
- 1943 · The Amazing Mrs. Holliday as
- 1942 · Wrecking Crew as Mike O'Glendy
- 1942 · A Letter From Bataan as Mrs. Jackson
- 1942 · Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Mrs. Thompson
- 1942 · Maisie Gets Her Man as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
- 1942 · You're Telling Me as Aunt Fannie Handley
- 1942 · What's Cookin'? as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
- 1942 · Blondie Goes to College as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
- 1941 · Dangerously They Live as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
- 1941 · All-American Co-Ed as Aunt Matilda Collinge
- 1941 · Aloma of the South Seas as Tarusa
- 1941 · Unfinished Business as Aunt Mathilda
- 1941 · Back Street as Mrs. Smith
- 1941 · Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Mrs. Krausheimer
- 1940 · Arise, My Love as Susie
- 1940 · Blondie Has Servant Trouble as Anna Vaughn
- 1940 · Untamed as Mrs. Smith
- 1940 · Cross-Country Romance as Mrs. McGillicuddy
- 1940 · The Mortal Storm as Marta
- 1940 · Opened by Mistake as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
- 1940 · Forty Little Mothers as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
- 1940 · And One Was Beautiful as Margaret
- 1940 · Women Without Names as Head Matron Ingles
- 1940 · Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
- 1940 · Convicted Woman as Chief Matron Brackett
- 1940 · Village Barn Dance as Minerva Withers
- 1940 · Laddie as Sarah, the Housekeeper
- 1939 · Swanee River as Temperance Woman
- 1939 · A Child Is Born as Prison Matron (uncredited)
- 1939 · Bad Little Angel as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
- 1939 · Blackmail as Sarah
- 1939 · The Women as Ingrid (uncredited)
- 1939 · Tell No Tales as Mrs. Haskins
- 1939 · 6,000 Enemies as Prison Matron
- 1939 · Big Town Czar as Ma Daley
- 1939 · Broadway Serenade as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
- 1939 · Sergeant Madden as Mrs. McGillivray
- 1939 · Made for Each Other as Annie (uncredited)
- 1939 · How to Sub-Let as Mrs. Mustavas
- 1939 · The Great Man Votes as Mrs. Markham
- 1938 · Girls on Probation as Mrs. Engstrom
- 1938 · Prison Farm as Cora Waxley
- 1938 · Stolen Heaven as Lieschen
- 1938 · Condemned Women as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
- 1937 · The Awful Truth as Mrs. Leeson
- 1937 · Dead End as Mrs. Fenner
- 1937 · On Such a Night as Miss Belinda Fentridge
- 1937 · Easy Living as Lillian
- 1937 · Wild Money as Jenny Hawkins
- 1937 · Damaged Goods as Mrs. Dupont
- 1937 · Outcast as Hattie Simmerson
- 1936 · Hollywood Boulevard as Martha
- 1936 · Fury as Mrs. Whipple
- 1936 · The Case Against Mrs. Ames as Matilda
- 1936 · The Farmer in the Dell as Ma Boyer
- 1936 · Lady of Secrets as Miss Eccles
- 1936 · Timothy's Quest as Hitty Tarbox
- 1935 · The Great Impersonation as Mrs. Unthank
- 1935 · I Dream Too Much as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
- 1935 · In Old Kentucky as Dolly Breckenridge
- 1935 · Mary Burns, Fugitive as Kate
- 1935 · I Live My Life as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
- 1935 · Curly Top as Genevieve Graham
- 1935 · Private Worlds as Matron
- 1935 · The Wedding Night as Mrs. Kaise Novak
- 1934 · Crime Without Passion as Miss Keeley (uncredited)