Esther Dale Movies

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband,...

Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of...

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...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror,...

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

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...

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

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...

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...

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his...

Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.