Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
11/10/1885
Place of Birth
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
Esther Dale
Biography
Known For
Back Street
as Mrs. Smith
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
Smoky
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matilda
Curly Top
as Genevieve Graham
The Women
as Ingrid (uncredited)
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
Dead End
as Mrs. Fenner
The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
Wrecking Crew
as Mike O'Glendy
Wild Money
as Jenny Hawkins
Surrender
as Aunt May
Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
Laddie
as Sarah, the Housekeeper
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
Prison Farm
as Cora Waxley
Broadway Serenade
as Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady
Hollywood Boulevard
as Martha
Unfinished Business
as Aunt Mathilda
Stolen Heaven
as Lieschen
Career Timeline
1959
1952
1950
1946
1945
1943
1942
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
1941
1940
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
1939
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
1938
1937
1936
1935
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