Esther Dale

Esther Dale

Birthday: 1885-11-10

Deathday: 1961-07-23

Place of birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA

Also known as: Ester Dale

imdb_id: nm0197689

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 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.

Played in movies:

The Great Impersonation

Score: 8.0

Fury

Score: 7.4

Ma and Pa Kettle

Score: 7.3

The Mortal Storm

Score: 7.2

The Women

Score: 7.2

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

Score: 7.2

The Awful Truth

Score: 7.2

Back Street

Score: 7.2

My Reputation

Score: 7.1

The Egg and I

Score: 7.0

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Score: 7.0

Easy Living

Score: 7.0

Dead End

Score: 7.0

Old Acquaintance

Score: 7.0

No Man of Her Own

Score: 6.9

Margie

Score: 6.9

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

Score: 6.8

Holiday Affair

Score: 6.8

Monkey Business

Score: 6.7

Swanee River

Score: 6.7

The Sound and the Fury

Score: 6.6

A Song Is Born

Score: 6.5

North to Alaska

Score: 6.5

A Child Is Born

Score: 6.5

Maisie Gets Her Man

Score: 6.5

On Moonlight Bay

Score: 6.4

A Stolen Life

Score: 6.4

Blondie Goes to College

Score: 6.4

I Live My Life

Score: 6.4

Cross-Country Romance

Score: 6.4

Blackmail

Score: 6.4

Curly Top

Score: 6.4

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Score: 6.4

Arise, My Love

Score: 6.3

Condemned Women

Score: 6.3

Aloma of the South Seas

Score: 6.3

Forty Little Mothers

Score: 6.2

And One Was Beautiful

Score: 6.2

Broadway Serenade

Score: 6.2

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Score: 6.2

Made for Each Other

Score: 6.1

The North Star

Score: 6.1

The Great Man Votes

Score: 6.1

Lady of Secrets

Score: 6.0

Sergeant Madden

Score: 6.0

Laddie

Score: 6.0

The Wedding Night

Score: 6.0

6,000 Enemies

Score: 6.0

Private Worlds

Score: 6.0

The Unfinished Dance

Score: 6.0

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Score: 5.9

Girls on Probation

Score: 5.9

Dangerously They Live

Score: 5.9

Crime Without Passion

Score: 5.8

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Score: 5.8

Prison Farm

Score: 5.7

Her Favorite Patient

Score: 5.7

The Oklahoman

Score: 5.6

Wrecking Crew

Score: 5.5

What's Cookin'?

Score: 5.5

Unfinished Business

Score: 5.3

Tell No Tales

Score: 5.3

Too Young to Kiss

Score: 5.2

Smoky

Score: 5.2

Walk Softly, Stranger

Score: 5.0

I Dream Too Much

Score: 5.0

Bad Little Angel

Score: 4.9

Surrender

Score: 4.8

Women Without Names

Score: 4.8

Betrayed Women

Score: 4.7

Murder in Times Square

Score: 4.6

A Letter From Bataan

Score: 4.5

Untamed

Score: 4.3

All-American Co-Ed

Score: 4.2

The Case Against Mrs. Ames

Score: 4.0

Convicted Woman

Score: 3.7

How to Sub-Let

Score: 3.5

Damaged Goods

Score: 3.4

Timothy's Quest

Score: 3.0

Hollywood Boulevard

Score: 2.5

Opened by Mistake

Score: 0.0

A Tale of Two Cities

Score: 0.0

On Stage Everybody

Score: 0.0

Swing Your Partner

Score: 0.0

You're Telling Me

Score: 0.0

Outcast

Score: 0.0

Big Town Czar

Score: 0.0

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Score: 0.0

Behind City Lights

Score: 0.0

The Farmer in the Dell

Score: 0.0

Wild Money

Score: 0.0

Village Barn Dance

Score: 0.0

On Such a Night

Score: 0.0

In Old Kentucky

Score: 0.0

Stolen Heaven

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Maverick

Score: 6.8

Thriller

Score: 6.4

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Lock-Up

Score: 6.2

The Donna Reed Show

Score: 6.2

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Score: 5.8

December Bride

Score: 5.5

M Squad

Score: 5.2

Mr. & Mrs. North

Score: 4.3

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5