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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...
Highest rated appearances
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard

Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis

Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks

A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg

The Unfinished Dance
as Olga

The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks

Margie
as Grandma McSweeney

Smoky
as Mrs. Richards

A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson

My Reputation
as Anna

Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell

On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy

Bedside Manner
as Martha Gravitt

Old Acquaintance
as Harriet

The North Star
as Anna Kurin

Swing Your Partner
as Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins

Murder in Times Square
as Longacre Lil

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy

A Letter From Bataan
as Mrs. Jackson

Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Mrs. Thompson

Maisie Gets Her Man
as Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)

You're Telling Me
as Aunt Fannie Handley

What's Cookin'?
as Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)

Blondie Goes to College
as Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady

Dangerously They Live
as Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper

All-American Co-Ed
as Aunt Matilda Collinge

Aloma of the South Seas
as Tarusa

Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda

Back Street
as Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Krausheimer

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

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

Girls on Probation
as Mrs. Engstrom

Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley

Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen

Condemned Women
as Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron

The Awful Truth
as Mrs. Leeson

Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner

On Such a Night
as Miss Belinda Fentridge

Easy Living
as Lillian

Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins

Damaged Goods
as Mrs. Dupont

Outcast
as Hattie Simmerson

Hollywood Boulevard
as Martha

Fury
as Mrs. Whipple

The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matilda

The Farmer in the Dell
as Ma Boyer

Lady of Secrets
as Miss Eccles

Timothy's Quest
as Hitty Tarbox

The Great Impersonation
as Mrs. Unthank

I Dream Too Much
as Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)

In Old Kentucky
as Dolly Breckenridge

Mary Burns, Fugitive
as Kate

I Live My Life
as Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper

Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham

Private Worlds
as Matron

The Wedding Night
as Mrs. Kaise Novak

Crime Without Passion
as Miss Keeley (uncredited)