Esther Dale

About Esther Dale

Who is it?: Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day: November 10, 1885
Birth Place:  Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Died On: July 23, 1961(1961-07-23) (aged 75)\nQueen of Angels Hospital, Hollywood, California, U.S.
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Cause of death: Complications from surgery
Occupation: Actress and singer
Years active: 1932–1961 (stage, film and television roles)
Spouse(s): Arthur Beckhard (m.? - March 1961; his death)

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Esther Dale was born on November 10, 1885 in  Beaufort, South Carolina, United States, is Actress, Soundtrack. Esther Dale was born on November 10, 1885 in Beaufort, South Carolina. She attended Leland and Gray Seminary in Townsend, Vermont, and then studied music in Berlin, Germany, and had a successful career as a lieder singer. Later, she became an actress in summer stock. She had the title role on Broadway of Carrie Nation in 1933, which also starred James Stewart, Mildred Natwick and Joshua Logan. Her first film was Crime Without Passion (1934) in 1934, followed by many, many roles in movies and television. Her husband, writer/director Arthur J. Beckhard was her manager. He died in March 1961 and she died a few months later, after surgery, in Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California.
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Biography/Timeline

1933

In America, Dale transferred to the acting stage and cultivated a career as an Actress in summer stock. She 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).

1934

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.

1958

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.

1961

Dale died in the summer of 1961 following surgery in Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood. She had been married to Writer and Director Arthur J. Beckhard, who predeceased her by four months.