Esther Dale
Popularity:0.278
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1885-11-10
Place of Birth:Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
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Also Known As:Ester Dale

The Mortal Storm (1940)
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....

Monkey Business (1952)
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

Holiday Affair (1949)
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by...

Dead End (1937)
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

No Man of Her Own (1950)
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Curly Top (1935)
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr....

The Awful Truth (1937)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Her Favorite Patient (1945)
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and...

A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

Dangerously They Live (1941)
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.

Bad Little Angel (1939)
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

All-American Co-Ed (1941)
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for...

I Dream Too Much (1935)
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

The Unfinished Dance (1947)
A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.

Private Worlds (1935)
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr....

My Reputation (1946)
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her...

The Oklahoman (1957)
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately,...

Blackmail (1939)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Murder in Times Square (1943)
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

Back Street (1941)
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion...

Margie (1946)
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Broadway Serenade (1939)
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

Convicted Woman (1940)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

And One Was Beautiful (1940)
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

Stolen Heaven (1938)
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together after their latest escapade and hide out in the...

The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

Condemned Women (1938)
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

Women Without Names (1940)
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

Arise, My Love (1940)
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Smoky (1946)
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

6,000 Enemies (1939)
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

The Great Man Votes (1939)
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

The Wedding Night (1935)
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of...

The North Star (1943)
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

Laddie (1940)
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

Easy Living (1937)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Tell No Tales (1939)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Prison Farm (1938)
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence...

Girls on Probation (1938)
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Old Acquaintance (1943)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Damaged Goods (1937)
A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

Made for Each Other (1939)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

A Letter From Bataan (1942)
An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

A Child Is Born (1939)
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

The Women (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

In Old Kentucky (1935)
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

Swanee River (1939)
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Sergeant Madden (1939)
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

On Such a Night (1937)
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

Village Barn Dance (1940)
Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by...

Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...

Timothy's Quest (1936)
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with...

Untamed (1940)
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...

Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Betrayed Women (1955)
Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Wild Money (1937)
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

What's Cookin'? (1942)
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

The Farmer in the Dell (1936)
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.

Behind City Lights (1945)
This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played by Peter Cookson and...

Cross-Country Romance (1940)
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

I Live My Life (1935)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Blondie Goes to College (1942)
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband,...

Surrender (1950)
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of...

Forty Little Mothers (1940)
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

How to Sub-Let (1939)
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Big Town Czar (1939)
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his...

Outcast (1937)
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

North to Alaska (1960)
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that...

Unfinished Business (1941)
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment –...

You're Telling Me (1942)
Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

A Song Is Born (1948)
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome...

Wrecking Crew (1942)
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew...

The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith,...

The Egg and I (1947)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country....

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from...

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter...

Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new...

Swing Your Partner (1943)
Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in...

The Great Impersonation (1935)
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

On Stage Everybody (1945)
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a...

Crime Without Passion (1934)
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance...

A Tale of Two Cities (1953)
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.

Lady of Secrets (1936)
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

Opened by Mistake (1940)
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

On Moonlight Bay (1951)
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives...

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
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December Bride (1954)
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Thriller (1960)
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M Squad (1957)
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption...

The Donna Reed Show (1958)
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time...

Lock-Up (1959)
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Cavalcade of America (1952)
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Mr. & Mrs. North (1952)
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Maverick (1957)
The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

Four Star Playhouse (1952)
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