Esther Dale
Acting
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.
Born: November 10, 1885
Place of Birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Known For
The Great Impersonation
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.
The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Back Street
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years later. Despite Walter being married and having a son, Ray becomes his mistress, and over the years suffers social ostracism and long stretches of solitude while waiting for their brief interludes together.
Ma and Pa Kettle
The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.
My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Filmography
as Woman at Picnic
as Ellen the Maid
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
as Ma Braus
as Julia Sheldon
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
as Head Matron Ballard
as Birdie Hicks
as Pross
as Aunt Tabitha
as Mrs. Rhinelander
as Birdie Hicks
as Mrs. Boykin
as Miss Thompson
as Aunt May
as Josie
as Mrs. Ennis
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
as Miss Bragg
as Olga
as Birdie Hicks
as Grandma McSweeney
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
as Mrs. Johnson
as Anna
as Sarah Lowell
as Ma Cassidy
as Martha Gravitt
as Harriet
as Anna Kurin
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
as Longacre Lil
as Mike O'Glendy
as Mrs. Jackson
as Mrs. Thompson
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
as Aunt Fannie Handley
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
as Tarusa
as Aunt Mathilda
as Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
as Susie
as Anna Vaughn
as Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
as Marta
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
as Margaret
as Head Matron Ingles
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
as Chief Matron Brackett
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
as Temperance Woman
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
as Sarah
as Ingrid (uncredited)
as Mrs. Haskins
as Prison Matron
as Ma Daley
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
as Mrs. McGillivray
as Annie (uncredited)
as Mrs. Mustavas
as Mrs. Markham
as Mrs. Engstrom
as Cora Waxley
as Lieschen
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
as Mrs. Leeson
as Mrs. Fenner
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
as Lillian
as Jenny Hawkins
as Mrs. Dupont
as Hattie Simmerson
as Martha
as Mrs. Whipple
as Matilda
as Ma Boyer
as Miss Eccles
as Hitty Tarbox
as Mrs. Unthank
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
as Dolly Breckenridge
as Kate
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
as Genevieve Graham
as Matron
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)