Birthday
1885/11/10
Day of death
1961/07/23 (75 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Also know as
Ester Dale
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...Read more
(1940) The Mortal Storm
as Marta
(1940) Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as Anna Vaughn
(1952) Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
(1941) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
(1949) Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
(1937) Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
(1950) No Man of Her Own
as Josie
(1935) Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
(1937) The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson
(1945) Her Favorite Patient
as Martha Gravitt
(1946) A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
(1943) The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
as ---
(1941) Dangerously They Live
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
(1939) Bad Little Angel
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
(1941) All-American Co-Ed
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
(1935) I Dream Too Much
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
(1950) Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
(1942) Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
(1947) The Unfinished Dance
as Olga
(1935) Private Worlds
as Matron
(1946) My Reputation
as Anna
(1957) The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
(1939) Blackmail
as Sarah
(1943) Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil
(1941) Back Street
as Mrs. Smith
(1946) Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
(1939) Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
(1940) Convicted Woman
as Chief Matron Brackett
(1940) And One Was Beautiful
as Margaret
(1941) Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa
(1938) Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen
(1936) The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matilda
(1938) Condemned Women
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
(1940) Women Without Names
as Head Matron Ingles
(1940) Arise, My Love
as Susie
(1946) Smoky
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
(1939) 6,000 Enemies
as Prison Matron
(1939) The Great Man Votes
as Mrs. Markham
(1935) The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
(1943) The North Star
as Anna Kurin
(1940) Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
(1937) Easy Living
as Lillian
(1939) Tell No Tales
as Mrs. Haskins
(1938) Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley
(1938) Girls on Probation
as Mrs. Engstrom
(1943) Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
(1937) Damaged Goods
as Mrs. Dupont
(1939) Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
(1942) A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson
(1939) A Child Is Born
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
(1939) The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
(1935) In Old Kentucky
as Dolly Breckenridge
(1939) Swanee River
as Temperance Woman
(1939) Sergeant Madden
as Mrs. McGillivray
(1937) On Such a Night
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
(1940) Village Barn Dance
as Minerva Withers
(1936) Fury
as Mrs. Whipple
(1936) Timothy's Quest
as Hitty Tarbox
(1940) Untamed
as Mrs. Smith
(1936) Hollywood Boulevard
as Martha
(1955) Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
(1940) Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
(1937) Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins
(1942) What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
(1936) The Farmer in the Dell
as Ma Boyer
(1945) Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
(1940) Cross-Country Romance
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
(1935) I Live My Life
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
(1935) Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Kate
(1942) Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
(1950) Surrender
as Aunt May
(1940) Forty Little Mothers
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
(1942) Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson
(1939) How to Sub-Let
as Mrs. Mustavas
(1939) Big Town Czar
as Ma Daley
(1937) Outcast
as Hattie Simmerson
(1960) North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
(1941) Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda
(1942) You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley
(1948) A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
(1942) Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
(1959) The Sound and the Fury
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
(1947) The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
(1952) Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Birdie Hicks
(1955) Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
(1949) Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
(1943) Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
(1935) The Great Impersonation
as Mrs. Unthank
(1945) On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
(1951) Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
(1934) Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
(1953) A Tale of Two Cities
as Pross
(1936) Lady of Secrets
as Miss Eccles
(1940) Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
(1951) On Moonlight Bay
as ---
(1959) The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as ---
(1954) December Bride
as ---
(1960) Thriller
as Ellen the Maid
(1957) M Squad
as Julia Sheldon
(1958) The Donna Reed Show
as ---
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Aunt Tabitha
(1952) Mr. & Mrs. North
as ---
(1957) Maverick
as Ma Braus
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Mrs. Weston