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 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.
Acting
Movie
The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson
1937
Movie
Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
1952
Movie
Fury
as Mrs. Whipple
1936
Movie
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer
1941
Movie
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
1937
Movie
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
1960
Movie
The Mortal Storm
as Marta
1940
Movie
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
1949
Movie
Easy Living
as Lillian
1937
Movie
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
1946
Movie
Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
1939
Movie
No Man of Her Own
as Josie
1950
Movie
The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
1947
Movie
A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
1948
Movie
Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
1935
TV
Maverick
as Ma Braus
1957
Movie
Old Acquaintance
as Harriet
1943
Movie
On Moonlight Bay
1951
Movie
The North Star
as Anna Kurin
1943
Movie
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
1950
Movie
The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
1935
Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
1940
Movie
Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
1934