Esther Dale Movies

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

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of...

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

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

A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror,...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

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

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...