Esther Dale
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander 1952
Fury
as Mrs. Whipple 1936
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer 1941
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited) 1939
Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner 1937
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic 1960
The Mortal Storm
as Marta 1940
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis 1949
Easy Living
as Lillian 1937
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson 1946
Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited) 1939
No Man of Her Own
as Josie 1950
A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg 1948
The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks 1947
Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham 1935
Old Acquaintance
as Harriet 1943