Esther Dale Movies

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

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

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

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...

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

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

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...

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.

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

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

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

A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.

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

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...

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...

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 –...

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

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...