Monkey Business1952
As Mrs. Rhinelander
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Esther Dale
Born
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.
Filmography (95)
Fury1936
As Mrs. Whipple
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Egg and I1947
As Birdie Hicks
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Women1939
As Ingrid (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Mr. & Mrs. Smith1941
As Mrs. Krausheimer
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Awful Truth1937
As Mrs. Leeson
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Made for Each Other1939
As Annie (uncredited)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
North to Alaska1960
As Woman at Picnic
TMDb 6.5 / 10
A Song Is Born1948
As Miss Bragg
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Dead End1937
As Mrs. Fenner
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Oklahoman1957
As Mrs. Fitzgerald
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Holiday Affair1949
As Mrs. Ennis
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Easy Living1937
As Lillian
TMDb 7.2 / 10
A Stolen Life1946
As Mrs. Johnson
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Stolen Heaven1938
As Lieschen
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Curly Top1935
As Genevieve Graham
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Mortal Storm1940
As Marta
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Sound and the Fury1959
As Mrs. Maud Mansfield
TMDb 6.8 / 10
No Man of Her Own1950
As Josie
TMDb 6.9 / 10
On Moonlight Bay1951
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Ten Gentlemen from West Point1942
As Mrs. Thompson
TMDb 6.4 / 10
I Live My Life1935
As Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday1943
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Too Young to Kiss1951
As Mrs. Boykin
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Ma and Pa Kettle1949
As Mrs. Birdie Hicks
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Walk Softly, Stranger1950
As Miss Thompson
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The North Star1943
As Anna Kurin
TMDb 6.0 / 10
A Child is Born1939
As Prison Matron (uncredited)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Abe Lincoln in Illinois1940
As Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
I Dream Too Much1935
As Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki1955
As Birdie Hicks
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Aloma of the South Seas1941
As Tarusa
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Back Street1941
As Mrs. Smith
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair1952
As Birdie Hicks
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Wedding Night1935
As Mrs. Kaise Novak
TMDb 5.9 / 10
My Reputation1946
As Anna
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Murder in Times Square1943
As Longacre Lil
TMDb 4.7 / 10
The Case Against Mrs. Ames1936
As Matilda
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Arise, My Love1940
As Susie
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Blondie Goes to College1942
As Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Maisie Gets Her Man1942
As Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
And One Was Beautiful1940
As Margaret
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Outcast1937
As Hattie Simmerson
TMDb 8.0 / 10
A Tale of Two Cities1953
As Pross
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Great Man Votes1939
As Mrs. Markham
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Blondie Has Servant Trouble1940
As Anna Vaughn
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Broadway Serenade1939
As Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Dangerously They Live1941
As Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Prison Farm1938
As Cora Waxley
TMDb 6.8 / 10
On Such a Night1937
As Miss Belinda Fentridge
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Unfinished Dance1947
As Olga
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Margie1946
As Grandma McSweeney
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Farmer in the Dell1936
As Ma Boyer
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Sergeant Madden1939
As Mrs. McGillivray
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Mary Burns, Fugitive1935
As Kate
TMDb 9.0 / 10
All-American Co-Ed1941
As Aunt Matilda Collinge
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Old Acquaintance1943
As Harriet
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Private Worlds1935
As Matron
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Untamed1940
As Mrs. Smith
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Blackmail1939
As Sarah
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Hollywood Boulevard1936
As Martha
TMDb 4.5 / 10
On Stage Everybody1945
As Ma Cassidy
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Convicted Woman1940
As Chief Matron Brackett
TMDb 4.6 / 10
Crime Without Passion1934
As Miss Keeley (uncredited)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Unfinished Business1941
As Aunt Mathilda
TMDb 6.5 / 10
What's Cookin'?1942
As Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Opened by Mistake1940
As Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Great Impersonation1935
As Mrs. Unthank
TMDb 7.5 / 10
A Letter From Bataan1942
As Mrs. Jackson
TMDb 5.2 / 10
You're Telling Me1942
As Aunt Fannie Handley
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Big Town Czar1939
As Ma Daley
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Forty Little Mothers1940
As Mrs. Mason the Landlady
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Tell No Tales1939
As Mrs. Haskins
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Condemned Women1938
As Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Bedside Manner1945
As Martha Gravitt
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Smoky1946
As Mrs. Richards
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Laddie1940
As Sarah, the Housekeeper
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Swanee River1939
As Temperance Woman
TMDb 7.0 / 10
6,000 Enemies1939
As Prison Matron
TMDb 6.1 / 10
How to Sub-Let1939
As Mrs. Mustavas
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Surrender1950
As Aunt May
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Cross-Country Romance1940
As Mrs. McGillicuddy
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Damaged Goods1937
As Mrs. Dupont
TMDb 3.6 / 10
In Old Kentucky1935
As Dolly Breckenridge
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Women Without Names1940
As Head Matron Ingles
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Girls on Probation1938
As Mrs. Engstrom
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Lady of Secrets1936
As Miss Eccles
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Wrecking Crew1942
As Mike O'Glendy
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Bad Little Angel1939
As Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Timothy's Quest1936
As Hitty Tarbox
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Behind City Lights1945
As Sarah Lowell
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Wild Money1937
As Jenny Hawkins
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Village Barn Dance
Village Barn Dance1940
As Minerva Withers
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Betrayed Women1955
As Head Matron Ballard
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Swing Your Partner1943
As Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb