Comedias de Esther Dale
Películas de Esther Dale filtradas por género
🎭 Woman at Picnic
6.6
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 she has already married, he returns instead with Ang ...
🎭 Birdie Hicks
6.8
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 an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion an ...
🎭 Mrs. Rhinelander
6.7
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 mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the ...
🎭 Birdie Hicks
5.9
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 in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with han ...
🎭 Mrs. Boykin
5
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 talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him ...
6.4
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 across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dan ...
🎭 Mrs. Ennis
6.8
1949
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fi ...
🎭 Mrs. Birdie Hicks
7.2
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 tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the f ...
🎭 Miss Bragg
6.5
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 nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster b ...
🎭 Birdie Hicks
6.9
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. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the cru ...
🎭 Grandma McSweeney
🎭 Martha Gravitt
5.8
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 help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's ...
🎭 Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins
0
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 company, broadcast a special radio program ...
6.4
1943
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country. ...
🎭 Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited)
7
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 in prison, how will Sothern prove their innoc ...
🎭 Aunt Fannie Handley
0
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 eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married ...
🎭 Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
5.5
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 classics and won't allow him to replace Profes ...
🎭 Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady
6.4
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, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leigh ...
🎭 Aunt Matilda Collinge
4.2
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 their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as ...
🎭 Aunt Mathilda
5.3
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 – the film charts the relationship that develops between a ...
🎭 Mrs. Krausheimer
6.2
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? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day ...
🎭 Susie
6.1
1940
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins. ...
🎭 Anna Vaughn
7.2
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. But Dithers has no time for any salary dispu ...
🎭 Mrs. McGillicuddy
6.4
1940
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco. ...
🎭 Mrs. Anthony DeBorest
0
1940
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside. ...
🎭 Minerva Withers
0
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 Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose ...
🎭 Ingrid (uncredited)
7.1
1939
Un grupo de mujeres pasan la mayor parte del día entre salones de belleza y tiendas de ropa, siempre murmurando, con cotilleos y rumores. De repente, una de ellas descubre que su marido se ve a ...
🎭 Annie (uncredited)
6.2
1939
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship. ...
🎭 Mrs. Mustavas
3.5
1939
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away. ...
🎭 Mrs. Markham
6.1
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, and his children, who know him for what he is ...
🎭 Mrs. Leeson
7.2
1937
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance. ...
🎭 Lillian
7.1
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 the window, it lands on poor hard-working gir ...
🎭 Jenny Hawkins
0
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 conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they ...
🎭 Ma Boyer
0
1936
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star. ...
🎭 Hitty Tarbox
3
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 a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wi ...
🎭 Mrs. Dilley (uncredited)
4.6
1935
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to s ...
🎭 Dolly Breckenridge
0
1935
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 horse ...
🎭 Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper
6.4
1935
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist. ...
🎭 Genevieve Graham
6.4
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. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he s ...