Esther Dale Movies

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

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

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...

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 –...

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

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,...

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

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

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

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...

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

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance...

At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr....

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

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

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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

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...

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...

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