8.0
8.0
The Great Impersonation
1935
as Mrs. Unthank
Esther Dale
Acting
Born:November 10, 1885
Died:July 23, 1961(aged 75)
Birthplace:Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
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CommunityBiography
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 (89 movies)
7.4
7.4
Fury
1936
as Mrs. Whipple
7.3
7.3
The Mortal Storm
1940
as Marta
7.2
7.2
Back Street
1941
as Mrs. Smith
7.2
7.2
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940
as Anna Vaughn
7.2
7.2
The Awful Truth
1937
as Mrs. Leeson
7.1
7.1
My Reputation
1946
as Anna
7.0
7.0
Easy Living
1937
as Lillian
7.0
7.0
Old Acquaintance
1943
as Harriet
7.0
7.0
Dead End
1937
as Mrs. Fenner
7.0
7.0
The Egg and I
1947
as Birdie Hicks
6.9
6.9
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
6.9
6.9
Margie
1946
as Grandma McSweeney
6.8
6.8
No Man of Her Own
1950
as Josie
6.8
6.8
Holiday Affair
1949
as Mrs. Ennis
6.8
6.8
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955
as Birdie Hicks
6.7
6.7
Swanee River
1939
as Temperance Woman
6.7
6.7
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
6.7
6.7
Monkey Business
1952
as Mrs. Rhinelander
6.6
6.6
The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
6.5
6.5
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
6.5
6.5
North to Alaska
1960
as Woman at Picnic
6.4
6.4
Blackmail
1939
as Sarah
6.4
6.4
Curly Top
1935
as Genevieve Graham
6.4
6.4
I Live My Life
1935
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
6.4
6.4
Cross-Country Romance
1940
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
6.4
6.4
Blondie Goes to College
1942
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
6.3
6.3
A Stolen Life
1946
as Mrs. Johnson
6.3
6.3
Arise, My Love
1940
as Susie
6.3
6.3
Condemned Women
1938
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
6.3
6.3
On Moonlight Bay
1951
6.2
6.2
Broadway Serenade
1939
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
6.2
6.2
And One Was Beautiful
1940
as Margaret
6.2
6.2
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
as Mrs. Krausheimer
6.2
6.2
Aloma of the South Seas
1941
as Tarusa
6.2
6.2
Forty Little Mothers
1940
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
6.1
6.1
The Great Man Votes
1939
as Mrs. Markham
6.1
6.1
The North Star
1943
as Anna Kurin
6.1
6.1
Made for Each Other
1939
as Annie (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
The Unfinished Dance
1947
as Olga
6.0
6.0
Lady of Secrets
1936
as Miss Eccles
6.0
6.0
Laddie
1940
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
6.0
6.0
6,000 Enemies
1939
as Prison Matron
6.0
6.0
Private Worlds
1935
as Matron
5.9
5.9
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
as Birdie Hicks
5.9
5.9
Dangerously They Live
1941
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
5.8
5.8
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
as Mrs. Thompson
5.8
5.8
The Wedding Night
1935
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
5.8
5.8
Crime Without Passion
1934
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
5.7
5.7
Bedside Manner
1945
as Martha Gravitt
5.7
5.7
Prison Farm
1938
as Cora Waxley
5.6
5.6
The Oklahoman
1957
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
5.5
5.5
Wrecking Crew
1942
as Mike O'Glendy
5.5
5.5
What's Cookin'?
1942
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
5.3
5.3
Unfinished Business
1941
as Aunt Mathilda
5.2
5.2
Smoky
1946
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
5.1
5.1
I Dream Too Much
1935
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
as Miss Thompson
4.9
4.9
Bad Little Angel
1939
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
4.8
4.8
Too Young to Kiss
1951
as Mrs. Boykin
4.7
4.7
Betrayed Women
1955
as Head Matron Ballard
4.6
4.6
Tell No Tales
1939
as Mrs. Haskins
4.5
4.5
A Letter From Bataan
1942
as Mrs. Jackson
4.4
4.4
Surrender
1950
as Aunt May
4.3
4.3
Murder in Times Square
1943
as Longacre Lil
4.2
4.2
All-American Co-Ed
1941
as Aunt Matilda Collinge
4.2
4.2
Untamed
1940
as Mrs. Smith
4.1
4.1
Women Without Names
1940
as Head Matron Ingles
3.5
3.5
How to Sub-Let
1939
as Mrs. Mustavas
3.0
3.0
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936
as Matilda
3.0
3.0
Convicted Woman
1940
as Chief Matron Brackett
3.0
3.0
Damaged Goods
1937
as Mrs. Dupont
3.0
3.0
Timothy's Quest
1936
as Hitty Tarbox
2.7
2.7
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Martha
On Such a Night
1937
as Miss Belinda Fentridge
On Stage Everybody
1945
as Ma Cassidy
In Old Kentucky
1935
as Dolly Breckenridge
Village Barn Dance
1940
as Minerva Withers
The Farmer in the Dell
1936
as Ma Boyer
Behind City Lights
1945
as Sarah Lowell
Wild Money
1937
as Jenny Hawkins
Big Town Czar
1939
as Ma Daley
You're Telling Me
1942
as Aunt Fannie Handley
A Tale of Two Cities
1953
as Pross
Swing Your Partner
1943
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
Stolen Heaven
1938
as Lieschen
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935
as Kate
Outcast
1937
as Hattie Simmerson
Opened by Mistake
1940
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
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