Personal Info
Known Credits
95
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1885-11-10 (140 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Also Known For
Ester Dale
Esther Dale
Biography
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 th ...
Known For
Acting
1960 --
North to Alaska
| Woman at Picnic
1959 --
The Sound and the Fury
| Mrs. Maud Mansfield
1957 --
The Oklahoman
| Mrs. Fitzgerald
1955 --
Betrayed Women
| Head Matron Ballard
1955 --
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
| Birdie Hicks
1953 --
A Tale of Two Cities
| Pross
1952 --
Monkey Business
| Mrs. Rhinelander
1952 --
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
| Birdie Hicks
1951 --
Too Young to Kiss
| Mrs. Boykin
1951 --
On Moonlight Bay
|
1950 --
Walk Softly, Stranger
| Miss Thompson
1950 --
Surrender
| Aunt May
1950 --
No Man of Her Own
| Josie
1949 --
Holiday Affair
| Mrs. Ennis
1949 --
Ma and Pa Kettle
| Mrs. Birdie Hicks
1948 --
A Song Is Born
| Miss Bragg
1947 --
The Unfinished Dance
| Olga
1947 --
The Egg and I
| Birdie Hicks
1946 --
Margie
| Grandma McSweeney
1946 --
Smoky
| Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
1946 --
A Stolen Life
| Mrs. Johnson
1946 --
My Reputation
| Anna
1945 --
Behind City Lights
| Sarah Lowell
1945 --
On Stage Everybody
| Ma Cassidy
1945 --
Her Favorite Patient
| Martha Gravitt
1943 --
Old Acquaintance
| Harriet
1943 --
The North Star
| Anna Kurin
1943 --
Swing Your Partner
| Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
1943 --
Murder in Times Square
| Longacre Lil
1943 --
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
|
1942 --
Wrecking Crew
| Mike O'Glendy
1942 --
A Letter From Bataan
| Mrs. Jackson
1942 --
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
| Mrs. Thompson
1942 --
Maisie Gets Her Man
| Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
1942 --
You're Telling Me
| Aunt Fannie Handley
1942 --
What's Cookin'?
| Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
1942 --
Blondie Goes to College
| Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
1941 --
Dangerously They Live
| Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
1941 --
All-American Co-Ed
| Aunt Matilda Collinge
1941 --
Unfinished Business
| Aunt Mathilda
1941 --
Aloma of the South Seas
| Tarusa
1941 --
Back Street
| Mrs. Smith
1941 --
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
| Mrs. Krausheimer
1940 --
Arise, My Love
| Susie
1940 --
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
| Anna Vaughn
1940 --
Untamed
| Mrs. Smith
1940 --
Cross-Country Romance
| Mrs. McGillicuddy
1940 --
The Mortal Storm
| Marta
1940 --
Opened by Mistake
| Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
1940 --
Forty Little Mothers
| Mrs. Mason the Landlady
1940 --
And One Was Beautiful
| Margaret
1940 --
Women Without Names
| Head Matron Ingles
1940 --
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
| Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
1940 --
Convicted Woman
| Chief Matron Brackett
1940 --
Village Barn Dance
| Minerva Withers
1940 --
Laddie
| Sarah, the Housekeeper
1939 --
Swanee River
| Temperance Woman
1939 --
A Child Is Born
| Prison Matron (uncredited)
1939 --
Bad Little Angel
| Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
1939 --
Blackmail
| Sarah
1939 --
The Women
| Ingrid (uncredited)
1939 --
Tell No Tales
| Mrs. Haskins
1939 --
6,000 Enemies
| Prison Matron
1939 --
Big Town Czar
| Ma Daley
1939 --
Broadway Serenade
| Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
1939 --
Sergeant Madden
| Mrs. McGillivray
1939 --
Made for Each Other
| Annie (uncredited)
1939 --
How to Sub-Let
| Mrs. Mustavas
1939 --
The Great Man Votes
| Mrs. Markham
1938 --
Girls on Probation
| Mrs. Engstrom
1938 --
Prison Farm
| Cora Waxley
1938 --
Stolen Heaven
| Lieschen
1938 --
Condemned Women
| Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
1937 --
The Awful Truth
| Mrs. Leeson
1937 --
On Such a Night
| Miss Belinda Fentridge
1937 --
Dead End
| Mrs. Fenner
1937 --
Easy Living
| Lillian
1937 --
Wild Money
| Jenny Hawkins
1937 --
Damaged Goods
| Mrs. Dupont
1937 --
Outcast
| Hattie Simmerson
1936 --
Hollywood Boulevard
| Martha
1936 --
Fury
| Mrs. Whipple
1936 --
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
| Matilda
1936 --
The Farmer in the Dell
| Ma Boyer
1936 --
Lady of Secrets
| Miss Eccles
1936 --
Timothy's Quest
| Hitty Tarbox
1935 --
The Great Impersonation
| Mrs. Unthank
1935 --
I Dream Too Much
| Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
1935 --
In Old Kentucky
| Dolly Breckenridge
1935 --
Mary Burns, Fugitive
| Kate
1935 --
I Live My Life
| Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
1935 --
Curly Top
| Genevieve Graham
1935 --
Private Worlds
| Matron
1935 --
The Wedding Night
| Mrs. Kaise Novak
1934 --
Crime Without Passion
| Miss Keeley (uncredited)