Esther Dale Movies

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

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...

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

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to...

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

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

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

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ez...

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, t...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

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

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...

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wr...

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 courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...