From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEsther 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).Dales 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 Stones pet mouse, and she appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode According to Hoyle opposite James Garner.

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The Mortal Storm

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Holiday Affair

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Dead End

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Curly Top

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A Stolen Life

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All-American Co-Ed

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The Oklahoman

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Blackmail

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Margie

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Aloma of the South Seas

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The Case Against Mrs. Ame

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Arise, My Love

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The Wedding Night

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Easy Living

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Tell No Tales

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I Live My Life

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North to Alaska

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A Song Is Born

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The Sound and the Fury

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The Egg and I

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Too Young to Kiss

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Movies unavailable from Esther Dale

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

Anna Vaughn

Movie 1940

Monkey Business

Mrs. Rhinelander

Movie 1952

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Krausheimer

Movie 1941

No Man of Her Own

Josie

Movie 1950

The Awful Truth

Mrs. Leeson

Movie 1937

Her Favorite Patient

Martha Gravitt

Movie 1945

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Movie 1943

Dangerously They Live

Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper

Movie 1941

Bad Little Angel

Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)

Movie 1939

I Dream Too Much

Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)

Movie 1935

Walk Softly, Stranger

Miss Thompson

Movie 1950

Maisie Gets Her Man

Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)

Movie 1942

The Unfinished Dance

Olga

Movie 1947

Private Worlds

Matron

Movie 1935

My Reputation

Anna

Movie 1946

Murder in Times Square

Longacre Lil

Movie 1943

Back Street

Mrs. Smith

Movie 1941

Broadway Serenade

Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady

Movie 1939

Convicted Woman

Chief Matron Brackett

Movie 1940

And One Was Beautiful

Margaret

Movie 1940

Stolen Heaven

Lieschen

Movie 1938

Condemned Women

Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

Movie 1938

Women Without Names

Head Matron Ingles

Movie 1940

Smoky

Mrs. 'Gram' Richards

Movie 1946

6,000 Enemies

Prison Matron

Movie 1939

The Great Man Votes

Mrs. Markham

Movie 1939

The North Star

Anna Kurin

Movie 1943

Laddie

Sarah, the Housekeeper

Movie 1940

Prison Farm

Cora Waxley

Movie 1938

Girls on Probation

Mrs. Engstrom

Movie 1938

Old Acquaintance

Harriet

Movie 1943

Damaged Goods

Mrs. Dupont

Movie 1937

Made for Each Other

Annie (uncredited)

Movie 1939

A Letter From Bataan

Mrs. Jackson

Movie 1942

A Child Is Born

Prison Matron (uncredited)

Movie 1939

The Women

Ingrid (uncredited)

Movie 1939

In Old Kentucky

Dolly Breckenridge

Movie 1935

Swanee River

Temperance Woman

Movie 1939

Sergeant Madden

Mrs. McGillivray

Movie 1939

On Such a Night

Miss Belinda Fentridge

Movie 1937

Village Barn Dance

Minerva Withers

Movie 1940

Fury

Mrs. Whipple

Movie 1936

Timothy's Quest

Hitty Tarbox

Movie 1936

Untamed

Mrs. Smith

Movie 1940

Hollywood Boulevard

Martha

Movie 1936

Betrayed Women

Head Matron Ballard

Movie 1955

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)

Movie 1940

Wild Money

Jenny Hawkins

Movie 1937

What's Cookin'?

Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)

Movie 1942

The Farmer in the Dell

Ma Boyer

Movie 1936

Behind City Lights

Sarah Lowell

Movie 1945

Cross-Country Romance

Mrs. McGillicuddy

Movie 1940

Mary Burns, Fugitive

Kate

Movie 1935

Blondie Goes to College

Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady

Movie 1942

Surrender

Aunt May

Movie 1950

Forty Little Mothers

Mrs. Mason the Landlady

Movie 1940

How to Sub-Let

Mrs. Mustavas

Movie 1939

Big Town Czar

Ma Daley

Movie 1939

Outcast

Hattie Simmerson

Movie 1937

Unfinished Business

Aunt Mathilda

Movie 1941

You're Telling Me

Aunt Fannie Handley

Movie 1942

Wrecking Crew

Mike O'Glendy

Movie 1942

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

Birdie Hicks

Movie 1955

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Birdie Hicks

Movie 1952

Ma and Pa Kettle

Mrs. Birdie Hicks

Movie 1949

Swing Your Partner

Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins

Movie 1943

The Great Impersonation

Mrs. Unthank

Movie 1935

On Stage Everybody

Ma Cassidy

Movie 1945

Crime Without Passion

Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Movie 1934

A Tale of Two Cities

Pross

Movie 1953

Lady of Secrets

Miss Eccles

Movie 1936

Opened by Mistake

Mrs. Anthony DeBorest

Movie 1940

On Moonlight Bay

Movie 1951

Tv series unavailable from Esther Dale

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Tv 1959

December Bride

Tv 1954

Thriller

Ellen the Maid

Tv 1960

M Squad

Julia Sheldon

Tv 1957

The Donna Reed Show

Tv 1958

Lock-Up

Tv 1959

Cavalcade of America

Aunt Tabitha

Tv 1952

Mr. & Mrs. North

Tv 1952

Maverick

Ma Braus

Tv 1957

Four Star Playhouse

Mrs. Weston

Tv 1952