Esther Dale Movies

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of...

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...

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith,...

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 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...

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

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

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

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

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

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr....

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...

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 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...

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his...