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