Esther Dale
1885-1961
Known for The Awful Truth, Monkey Business, Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
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.
Movie Credits
How to Sub-Let (1939)
Damaged Goods (1937)
A Tale of Two Cities (1953)
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Holiday Affair (1949)
The Unfinished Dance (1947)
Wild Money (1937)
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
You're Telling Me (1942)
Dangerously They Live (1941)
And One Was Beautiful (1940)
The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
Curly Top (1935)
In Old Kentucky (1935)
The Wedding Night (1935)
Betrayed Women (1955)
Margie (1946)
Back Street (1941)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Private Worlds (1935)
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
A Stolen Life (1946)
My Reputation (1946)
Arise, My Love (1940)
Blackmail (1939)
Stolen Heaven (1938)
On Such a Night (1937)
No Man of Her Own (1950)
Old Acquaintance (1943)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Crime without Passion (1934)
Monkey Business (1952)
Surrender (1950)
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
Easy Living (1937)
The Egg and I (1947)
I Live My Life (1935)
The Great Man Votes (1939)
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
The North Star (1943)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
The Mortal Storm (1940)
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
North to Alaska (1960)
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Fury (1936)
Made for Each Other (1939)
I Dream Too Much (1935)
Dead End (1937)
Swanee River (1939)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
