Jennifer Dale is one of Canada's most popular actors. Her American equivalent would be Lindsay Wagner or Stefanie Powers: women who have done many guest appearances on many TV shows and have had their own TV series. I now have enough Jennifer material for three pages. This is page 2.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME is a new half-hour Canadian drama deserving its chance to grow. So far six episodes have been made of this family relationship saga. Jennifer Dale stars as a fading TV soap opera queen who makes a reluctant pilgrimage to the family home when her father suddenly dies. Patricia Gage is the older sister who stayed at home to look after their reprobate father while teaching English to immigrants to keep the household financially afloat. The neighborhood has faded but Kitty (Dale) thinks the house could be sold as a fixer-upper to some young couple; she desperately needs the money from the sale to get back on her feet again.
Elizabeth seems resentful of Kitty's supposed success; Kitty is plagued with self-doubt. But they soon must both face a more practical reality: Papa had amassed such debts the house cannot be easily sold. They're unwillingly stuck under the same roof.
Co-produced by Chestnut Park Productions with funding fram Telefilm Canada and 10 Canadian television stations, including Hamilton's CHCH-TV, the six-part series was created by Thomas E. Stewart Productions in Brampton. It richly deserves additional Telefilm funding so more episodes can be made.
Rating: B+. Schedule: potentially late-season, 9pm, CHCH.
The above snippet came from a Toronto TV magazine in fall of 1990. I'm not sure if was Starweek.
Jennifer Dale plays Jacqueline Kennedy.
This selection came from the Showcase Channel web site.
Cinema Canada Oct. 1984
Move over, Joan Collins, Canada's Jennifer Dale plays the small screen's schemingest woman yet on the brand-new mini-series Empire Inc.
Jennifer Dale is d'ingenued when she takes the role of clever Cleo Munroe on Empire Inc., Sunday, 9 p.m., CBC.
Not long ago, Jennifer Dale worried aloud that she'd be forever cast as a virgin ingenue. Stage roles the likes of Juliet and Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz hardly left room for twisted, bitchy interpretations.
Her early films included a part in Stone Cold Dead as a stripper who gets herself knocked off and in Robert Lantos 1980 feature Suzanne, the part of a 1950s ingenue who gets herself knocked up. Despite her youth and early professional success, Dale found herself openly longing for a role that would allow her to portray a woman with a bit more bite.
Two years after Suzanne the Toronto-born actress seems to have her wish in spades. Dale herself was five months pregnant when she finished work on Suzanne. But after her marriage to producer Lantos, the birth of their son, Ariel in December, 1980, and a year off to play wife and mother, the meaty roles seem to be tumbling in.
- Cheryl Hawkes
Starweek Jan. 8, 1983.
This also came from the Showcase Channel web page. Jennifer Dale played the part of Sandra, an ambitious women who has the opportunity to take over a failing chain of stores.
This was a film starring Richard Harris as an aging businessman worried about his virility.
Try downloading a picture of Jennifer with Gene Kelly (19k) at the 1985 Genie Awards.
TV Guide Dec. 23-29, 1995
"The occasion was last week's annual and sparkling gala/fund-raiser for Toronto Women in Film and Television also known as Women in Film and Television.
But the women being feted at the gala were powerful and influential even beyond the on-screen glamour of Smits, and Jennifer and Cynthia Dale."
The above extract came from a Globe and Mail column. Women in Film and Television have a number of local chapters in cities like Los Angeles and Toronto. Call the Hotline at (416) 322-3648 for a recorded message about upcoming events. They also have a web page.
By the way when are we going to have celebrity softball again? I understand that Jennifer participated at one such event years ago but I didn't get a chance to see it.
Globe and Mail, April 16, 1996
There was a big gala on September 30, 1996 celebrating the 10th anniversary of this organization that helps dancers leave the world of dance at the Winter Garden Theatre. One of the co-hosts was Jennifer Dale. I saw Jennifer and her sister Cynthia on "Eye on Toronto" promoting this event. Both of them studied dance as children as preparation for a show business career.
I see Jennifer's name in the voice credits of the first season of the X-men animated series but does anyone know what part she played? My guess would be Callisto leader of the Morlocks.
