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) ... ...
7.4/10
Comedy
USA
1936
67 Minutes
Louella "Ma" Boyer
Fred Stone Jean Parker Esther Dale Moroni Olsen Frank Albertson Maxine Jennings Ray Mayer Lucille Ball Rafael Corio Frank Jenks Spencer Charters
Senior couple take their pretty daughter (Jean Parker) -- from their home and farm in Mid-America -- to Hollywood -- to become a movie star.
6.7/10
Western
USA
1946
87 Minutes
Mrs. `Gram' Richards
Fred MacMurray Anne Baxter Bruce Cabot Esther Dale Burl Ives Roy Roberts J. Farrell MacDonald
cowboy rancher horse brother heartwarming charming ranch cattle rustling horse breaking theft dark secrets horses pursuit rescue 1940s
Drama about the strong bond between a cowpoke and a wild bronco set during the 1940s.
7.0/10
Comedy
USA
1952
78 Minutes
Birdie Hicks
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride James Best Lori Nelson Esther Dale
country girl family patriarch mother nemesis daughter hilarious cheery lighthearted fair farm church small town washington state contest horse racing cooking young love education husband/wife relationship adventure
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.
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1945
89 Minutes
Martha Gravitt
John Carroll Ruth Hussey Charles Ruggles Ann Rutherford Esther Dale Grant Mitchell
Macho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.
6.1/10
Adventure
USA
1942
73 Minutes
Mike O'Glendy
Richard Arlen Chester Morris Jean Parker Joe Sawyer Esther Dale Alexander Granach Billy Nelson Evelyn Brent Ralph Sanford Frank Melton William Hall
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 »
5.2/10
Comedy
USA
1941
48 Minutes
Aunt Matilda Collinge
Frances Langford Johnny Downs Marjorie Woodworth Noah Beery Jr. Esther Dale Harry Langdon Alan Hale Jr. Kent Rogers Allan Lane Joe Brown Jr. Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
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 »
7.2/10
Other, Romance
USA
1949
87 Minutes
Mrs. Ennis
Robert Mitchum Janet Leigh Wendell Corey Gordon Gebert Griff Barnett Esther Dale Henry O'Neill Harry Morgan Larry J. Blake Helen Brown James Griffith
clerk widow single mother son lawyer homeless person lighthearted charming emotional department store hotel central park new york city zoo love fraud mourning mother/son relationship unemployment christmas
A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1941
96 Minutes
Aunt Mathilda
Irene Dunne Robert Montgomery Preston Foster Eugene Pallette Dick Foran Esther Dale Walter Catlett Richard Davies Kathryn Adams Samuel S. Hinds June Clyde
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 »
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Margaret
Bob Cummings Laraine Day Jean Muir Billie Burke Ann Morriss Esther Dale Charles Waldron Frank Milan Rand Brooks Paul Stanton Ruth Tobey
young woman sister love interest husband inmate bachelor emotional sad engaging party car family home prison road car accident sister relationship death imprisonment love triangle responsibility
A woman lets a family friend take the blame after she accidentally runs over a man with a car.
7.7/10
Comedy
USA
1937
92 Minutes
Mrs. Leeson
Irene Dunne Cary Grant Ralph Bellamy Alex D'Arcy Cecil Cunningham Molly Lamont Esther Dale Joyce Compton Robert Allen Robert Warwick Mary Forbes
husband wife neighbor heiress music teacher mother amusing charming hilarious madcap new york city apartment marriage reconciliation divorce new love love transformation 1930s
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1941
89 Minutes
Mrs. Smith
Charles Boyer Margaret Sullavan Richard Carlson Frank McHugh Tim Holt Frank Jenks Esther Dale Samuel S. Hinds Peggy Stewart Nell O'Day Kitty O'Neil
shopgirl banker manufacturer mistress son wife melodramatic moving sad cincinnati shop train station boat new york city apartment affair unrequited love social ostracism father/son relationship business
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.
Romance
1946
94 Minutes
Grandma McSweeney
Jeanne Crain Glenn Langan Lynn Bari Alan Young Barbara Lawrence Conrad Janis Esther Dale Hobart Cavanaugh Ann E. Todd Hattie McDaniel Don Hayden
teen girl teacher boy father friend grandmother charming endearing touching high school attic skating rink teen romance popularity homecoming memory father/daughter relationship love growing up rivalry
A shy high-school debater (Jeanne Crain) has a crush on her French teacher (Glenn Langan) during the Roaring '20s.
7.0/10
Romance
USA
1946
96 Minutes
Anna
Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Warner Anderson Lucile Watson John Ridgely Eve Arden Jerome Cowan Esther Dale Scotty Beckett Bobby Cooper Leona Maricle
widow major boyfriend son love interest moving emotional lake forest, ill. ski resort california chicago mourning relationships gossip romantic dilemma love triangle love love forbidden love discovery
A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.
6.8/10
Romance
USA
1940
110 Minutes
Susie
Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Dennis O'Keefe Walter Abel Dick Purcell George Zucco Frank Puglia Esther Dale Paul Leyssac Ann Codee Stanley Logan
pilot journalist editor priest love interest lighthearted witty patriotic spain paris europe ocean liner prisoners of war journalism love world war ii career escape transformation 1930s
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1935
86 Minutes
Dolly Breckenridge
Will Rogers Dorothy Wilson Russell Hardie Charles Sellon Louise Henry Charles Richman Alan Dinehart Esther Dale Etienne Girardot John Ince Bill Robinson
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 »
7.1/10
Romance
USA
1951
95 Minutes
Aunt Martha Robertson
Doris Day Gordon MacRae Jack Smith Leon Ames Rosemary DeCamp Mary Wickes Ellen Corby Billy Gray Esther Dale Eddie Marr Sig Arno
During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.
6.4/10
Western
USA
1957
80 Minutes
Mrs. Fitzgerald
Joel McCrea Barbara Hale Brad Dexter Gloria Talbott Verna Felton Douglas Dick Michael Pate Anthony Caruso Esther Dale Adam Williams Ray Teal
doctor wife daughter widow native american woman bully endearing spirited oklahoma wild west small town house farm oil field relocation native americans love triangle relationships territorial disputes old west
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.
Comedy
1941
95 Minutes
Mrs. Krausheimer
Carole Lombard Robert Montgomery Gene Raymond Jack Carson Philip Merivale Lucile Watson William Tracy Charles Halton Esther Dale Emma Dunn William Edmunds
husband wife romantic rival colleague spirited amusing endearing new york city ski resort nightclub world's fair ferris wheel marital problems courtship rules love discovery pursuit 1940s
Bickering New Yorkers (Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery) learn from a lawyer that, technically, they're not married.
Comedy, Drama
1939
93 Minutes
Annie
Carole Lombard James Stewart Charles Coburn Lucile Watson Harry Davenport Ruth Weston Donald Briggs Eddie Quillan Esther Dale Rene Orsell Louise Beavers
lawyer judge wife rival daughter son melodramatic family home office marriage employment ambition family illness quest transformation 1930s
A young lawyer (James Stewart) starts a family with the woman (Carole Lombard) he loves instead of with his boss's (Charles Coburn) daughter.
7.6/10
Comedy
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Lillian
Jean Arthur Edward Arnold Ray Milland Luis Alberni Mary Nash Franklin Pangborn Barlowe Borland William Demarest Andrew Tombes Esther Dale Harlan Briggs
office worker wealthy man son wife hotel owner stockbroker cheeky playful frenetic new york city bus office hotel automat chance meeting class distinctions misunderstanding great depression rags to riches romance
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.
7.0/10
Comedy
USA
1952
97 Minutes
Mrs. Rhinelander
Cary Grant Ginger Rogers Marilyn Monroe Charles Coburn Hugh Marlowe Henri Letondal Robert Cornthwaite Larry Keating Douglas Spencer Esther Dale Joseph Mell
chemist secretary businessman chimpanzee wife wild amusing madcap playful laboratory car skating rink office youth science medical experiments confusion immortality transformation temptation
A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
96 Minutes
Lucy
Deanna Durbin Edmond O'Brien Barry Fitzgerald Arthur Treacher Harry Davenport Grant Mitchell Frieda Inescort Elisabeth Risdon Jonathan Hale Esther Dale
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
6.5/10
Crime, Drama, Romance
USA
1950
81 Minutes
Miss Thompson
Joseph Cotten Alida Valli Spring Byington Paul Stewart Jack Paar Jeff Donnell John McIntire Howard Petrie Frank Puglia Esther Dale Wilma Francis
petty criminal paraplegic partner casino owner father brooding gripping melodramatic ashton, ohio mysterious past unusual romance scam confrontation consequences discovery love escape 1940s
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.
5.9/10
War
USA
1943
105 Minutes
Anna
Anne Baxter Dana Andrews Walter Huston Ann Harding Erich von Stroheim Jane Withers Farley Granger Walter Brennan Carl Benton Reid Esther Dale Paul Guilfoyle
russian doctor nazi villager peasant tense solemn soviet union village invasion war violence uprising murder nazi occupation fall underdog wretched excess 1940s
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
5.4/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
95 Minutes
Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
Lily Pons Henry Fonda Eric Blore Osgood Perkins Lucien Littlefield Lucille Ball Mischa Auer Paul Porcasi Scotty Beckett Esther Dale Clarence Wilson
opera singer composer agent producer husband wife melodramatic passionate paris monte carlo, monaco stage club street ambition jealousy music competition success marriage rivalry
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 »
Comedy
1942
74 Minutes
Mrs. Carrie Dill
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Janet Blair Jonathan Hale Adele Mara Danny Mummert Larry Parks Lloyd Bridges Esther Dale
Blondie (Penny Singleton) and Dagwood (Arthur Lake) send Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) to military school, then go back to college.
5.8/10
Musical
USA
1939
114 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Lew Ayres Ian Hunter Frank Morgan Wally Vernon Rita Johnson Virginia Grey William Cargan Katharine Alexander Al Shean Esther Dale
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 »
7.8/10
Drama
USA
1940
100 Minutes
Margaret Sullavan James Stewart Robert Young Frank Morgan Robert Stack Bonita Granville Irene Rich William T. Orr Maria Ouspenskaya Gene Reynolds Russell Hicks
professor daughter soldier activist tense moving gutsy rousing germany austria family home world war ii nazism persecution fascism freedom escape transformation rescue 1930s
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.
6.6/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1943
98 Minutes
Alice Faye John Payne Jack Oakie Lynn Bari Laird Cregar June Havoc Ward Bond Aubrey Mather John Archer George Barbier Frank Orth
socialite entertainer singer showman saloon owner charming uplifting playful england san francisco saloon theater house fame vaudeville marrying for money comeback love triangle show business transformation
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.
Romance
1935
92 Minutes
Joan Crawford Brian Aherne Frank Morgan Aline MacMahon Eric Blore Arthur Treacher Fred Keating Jessie Ralph Frank Conroy Etienne Girardot Edward Brophy
socialite archaeologist father millionaire butler grandmother airy witty charming lighthearted new york city yacht greece island connecticut museum class distinctions deception vacation love triangle
An heiress and a young archaeologist fall in love during a chance meeting, but they find that money poses a problem.
6.1/10
Drama
USA
1940
79 Minutes
Geraldine Fitzgerald Jeffrey Lynn Gladys George Gale Page Spring Byington Johnnie Davis Henry O'Neill John Litel Gloria Holden Johnny Downs Eve Arden
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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