Esther Dale Movies

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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...

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

Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Meg, a young ballet student, idolizes the school's top ballerina, the shallow Ariane Bouchet. Meg is distressed when she learns visiting prima...

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

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

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

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...

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

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 –...

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

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