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.
95 movies · 10 shows
North to Alaska
1960·6.5
The Sound and the Fury
1959·6.8
The Oklahoman
1957·5.8
Betrayed Women
1955·5.1
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955·7.2
A Tale of Two Cities
1953·9.0
Monkey Business
1952·6.7
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952·6.5
Too Young to Kiss
1951·5.1
On Moonlight Bay
1951·6.5
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950·5.1
Surrender
1950·4.8
No Man of Her Own
1950·6.9
Holiday Affair
1949·6.9
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949·7.2
A Song Is Born
1948·6.4
The Unfinished Dance
1947·6.4
The Egg and I
1947·7.1
Margie
1946·7.1
Smoky
1946·5.7
A Stolen Life
1946·6.4
My Reputation
1946·7.3
Behind City Lights
1945·7.0
On Stage Everybody
1945·8.0
Bedside Manner
1945·5.9
Old Acquaintance
1943·7.1
The North Star
1943·6.0
Swing Your Partner
1943·10.0
Murder in Times Square
1943·4.7
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943·6.7
Wrecking Crew
1942·7.0
A Letter From Bataan
1942·5.2
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942·6.4
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942·6.7
You're Telling Me
1942·10.0
What's Cookin'?
1942·7.0
Blondie Goes to College
1942·6.6
Dangerously They Live
1941·6.3
All-American Co-Ed
1941·4.4
Aloma of the South Seas
1941·7.0
Unfinished Business
1941·6.5
Back Street
1941·7.3
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941·6.0
Arise, My Love
1940·6.3
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940·7.0
Untamed
1940·5.0
Cross-Country Romance
1940·6.7
The Mortal Storm
1940·7.3
Opened by Mistake
1940·7.0
Forty Little Mothers
1940·6.5
And One Was Beautiful
1940·6.7
Women Without Names
1940·4.7
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940·6.9
Convicted Woman
1940·4.6
Village Barn Dance
1940·8.0
Laddie
1940·6.6
Swanee River
1939·7.0
A Child is Born
1939·7.1
Bad Little Angel
1939·5.5
Blackmail
1939·6.9
The Women
1939·7.2
Tell No Tales
1939·5.4
6,000 Enemies
1939·6.1
Big Town Czar
1939·7.0
Broadway Serenade
1939·6.6
Sergeant Madden
1939·7.5
Made for Each Other
1939·6.1
How to Sub-Let
1939·5.8
The Great Man Votes
1939·6.4
Girls on Probation
1938·6.2
Prison Farm
1938·6.8
Stolen Heaven
1938·7.0
Condemned Women
1938·7.3
The Awful Truth
1937·7.2
Dead End
1937·7.1
On Such a Night
1937·7.0
Easy Living
1937·7.2
Wild Money
1937·8.0
Damaged Goods
1937·3.6
Outcast
1937·8.0
Hollywood Boulevard
1936·4.5
Fury
1936·7.5
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936·5.0
The Farmer in the Dell
1936·7.0
Lady of Secrets
1936·6.7
Timothy's Quest
1936·4.7
The Great Impersonation
1935·7.5
I Dream Too Much
1935·5.4
In Old Kentucky
1935·10.0
Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935·9.0
I Live My Life
1935·6.7
Curly Top
1935·6.5
Private Worlds
1935·6.4
The Wedding Night
1935·5.9
Crime Without Passion
1934·5.9