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Birthday
November 10, 1885
Day of Death
1961-07-23
(75 years old)
Place of Birth
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
Ester Dale
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.
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Arise, My Love
as Susie
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as Anna Vaughn
Untamed
as Mrs. Smith
Cross-Country Romance
as Mrs. McGillicuddy
The Mortal Storm
as Marta
Opened by Mistake
as Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
Forty Little Mothers
as Mrs. Mason the Landlady
And One Was Beautiful
as Margaret
Women Without Names
as Head Matron Ingles
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
as Lincoln's Cook (uncredited)
Convicted Woman
as Chief Matron Brackett
Village Barn Dance
as Minerva Withers
Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
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Swanee River
as Temperance Woman
A Child Is Born
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
Bad Little Angel
as Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
Blackmail
as Sarah
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
Tell No Tales
as Mrs. Haskins
6,000 Enemies
as Prison Matron
Big Town Czar
as Ma Daley
Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
Sergeant Madden
as Mrs. McGillivray
Made for Each Other
as Annie (uncredited)
How to Sub-Let
as Mrs. Mustavas
The Great Man Votes
as Mrs. Markham
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