Esther Dale
Birthday: 1885-11-10 | Place of Birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USAFrom 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.
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Acting
Role
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
as Mrs. Rhinelander
as Mrs. Boykin
as Miss Thompson
as Mrs. Ennis
as Anna
as Grandma McSweeney
as Mrs. Johnson
as Sarah Lowell
as Harriet
as Longacre Lil
as Aunt Mathilda
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper
as Mrs. Krausheimer
as Mrs. Smith
as Tarusa
as Chief Matron Brackett
as Margaret
as Minerva Withers
as Mrs. Smith
as Susie
as Sarah
as Cora Waxley
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron
as Lillian
as Mrs. Leeson
as Genevieve Graham
as Mrs. Kaise Novak
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)
