Esther Dale Movies

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

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

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 fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

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...

Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion...

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

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 pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

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

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...

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...

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

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...

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

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