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