Esther Dale Movies

List of the best Esther Dale movies: The Farmer in the Dell(1936), Smoky(1946), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair(1952), Bedside Manner(1945), Wrecking Crew(1942), All-American Co-ed(1941), Holiday Affair(1949), Unfinished Business(1941), And One Was Beautiful(1940), The Awful Truth(1937), Back Street(1941), Margie(1946) ... ...

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The Farmer in the Dell

Senior couple take their pretty daughter (Jean Parker) -- from their home and farm in Mid-America -- to Hollywood -- to become a movie star.

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Smoky

Drama about the strong bond between a cowpoke and a wild bronco set during the 1940s.

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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

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 in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.

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Bedside Manner

Macho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.

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Wrecking Crew

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 in their lives away from the job and ... See full summary »

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All-American Co-ed

All-girl school Mar Brynn tries to get more pupils and publicity by making fun of the Quincton college. For revenge, the boys there sent Bob Sheppard to Mar Brynn, dressed as a girl, to ... See full summary »

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Holiday Affair

A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.

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Unfinished Business

Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother... See full summary »

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And One Was Beautiful

A woman lets a family friend take the blame after she accidentally runs over a man with a car.

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The Awful Truth

A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.

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Back Street

Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.

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Margie

A shy high-school debater (Jeanne Crain) has a crush on her French teacher (Glenn Langan) during the Roaring '20s.

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My Reputation

A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.

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Arise, My Love

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

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In Old Kentucky

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a... See full summary »

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On Moonlight Bay

During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.

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The Oklahoman

A doctor stops in a small Southwestern town to bury his wife. He decides to stay there and start a practice, but soon runs into violent cattle ranchers.

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Bickering New Yorkers (Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery) learn from a lawyer that, technically, they're not married.

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Made for Each Other

A young lawyer (James Stewart) starts a family with the woman (Carole Lombard) he loves instead of with his boss's (Charles Coburn) daughter.

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Easy Living

A wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

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Monkey Business

A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.

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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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Walk Softly, Stranger

An ex-hood hopes to start a new life under an assumed name in a small town but his past catches up with him when an old crime-buddy asks him to help with a casino heist.

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The North Star

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.

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I Dream Too Much

Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and ... See full summary »

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Blondie Goes to College

Blondie (Penny Singleton) and Dagwood (Arthur Lake) send Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) to military school, then go back to college.

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Broadway Serenade

Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway ... See full summary »

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The Mortal Storm

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

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Hello, Frisco, Hello

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.

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I Live My Life

An heiress and a young archaeologist fall in love during a chance meeting, but they find that money poses a problem.

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A Child Is Born

A maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. These include a happy mother of a large family; a secretly-married teenager who thinks their ... See full summary »

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