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Esther Dale
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
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 Shirl…
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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 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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1960
North to Alaska
Movie Woman at Picnic
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1960
Thriller
TV show Ellen the Maid
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1959
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV show
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1959
Lock-Up
TV show Mrs. Raymond
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1959
The Sound and the Fury
Movie Mrs. Maud Mansfield
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1958
The Donna Reed Show
TV show
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1957
Maverick
TV show Ma Braus
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1957
M Squad
TV show Julia Sheldon
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1957
The Oklahoman
Movie Mrs. Fitzgerald
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1955
Betrayed Women
Movie Head Matron Ballard
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1955
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Movie Birdie Hicks
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1954
December Bride
TV show
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1953
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie Pross
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1952
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV show
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1952
Cavalcade of America
TV show Aunt Tabitha
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1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV show Mrs. Weston
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1952
Monkey Business
Movie Mrs. Rhinelander
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1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Movie Birdie Hicks
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1951
Too Young to Kiss
Movie Mrs. Boykin
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1951
On Moonlight Bay
Movie
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1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
Movie Miss Thompson
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1950
Surrender
Movie Aunt May
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1950
No Man of Her Own
Movie Josie
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1949
Holiday Affair
Movie Mrs. Ennis
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1949
Ma and Pa Kettle
Movie Mrs. Birdie Hicks
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1948
A Song Is Born
Movie Miss Bragg
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1947
The Unfinished Dance
Movie Olga
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1947
The Egg and I
Movie Birdie Hicks
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1946
Margie
Movie Grandma McSweeney
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1946
Smoky
Movie Mrs. Richards
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1946
A Stolen Life
Movie Mrs. Johnson
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1946
My Reputation
Movie Anna
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1945
Behind City Lights
Movie Sarah Lowell
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1945
On Stage Everybody
Movie Ma Cassidy
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1945
Bedside Manner
Movie Martha Gravitt
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1943
Old Acquaintance
Movie Harriet
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1943
The North Star
Movie Anna Kurin
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1943
Swing Your Partner
Movie Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
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1943
Murder in Times Square
Movie Longacre Lil
- 1943
