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Minerva Urecal

A stage actress, Urecal made her screen debut in 1934. For the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like. She was known as a Marjorie Main type actress and later went on to a career in television playing in such shows as "Tugboat Annie" and "Peter Gunn." Minerva claimed her name was an amalgam of her hometown, Eureka, California.

Known For: Acting

Born: Eureka, California, USA, 1894-09-20

Died: 1966-02-26

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Bombshell	Autograph Seeker (uncredited)	65
2	1933	Meet the Baron	Downstairs Maid (uncredited)	43
3	1934	Sadie McKee	Brennan’s Cook’s Assistant (uncredited)	70
4	1934	Student Tour	Wife	50
5	1935	Man on the Flying Trapeze	Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)	59
6	1935	Here Comes the Band	Italian Wife (uncredited)	50
7	1935	His Night Out	Wife (uncredited)	0
8	1936	Three Godfathers	Parishioner (uncredited)	68
9	1936	Love on a Bet	Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary	70
10	1936	Fury	Fanny (uncredited)	74
11	1937	Her Husband's Secretary	Miss Baldwin	50
12	1937	Oh, Doctor	Death Watch Mary Mackleforth	0
13	1937	Mountain Justice	Ella Crippen	55
14	1937	Charlie Chan at the Olympics	Gang Member Posing as Olympics Matron	67
15	1937	The Go-Getter	Cappy Ricks' Secretary	58
16	1937	Love in a Bungalow	Mrs. Kester	0
17	1937	Ever Since Eve	Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)	58
18	1937	Behind the Mike	Mrs. Reilly	0
19	1937	Life Begins with Love	Mrs. Murphy	50
20	1937	She Loved a Fireman	Nurse Purdy	60
21	1937	Exiled to Shanghai	Claire	49
22	1938	Prison Nurse	Sutherland	51
23	1938	Start Cheering	Miss Grimley	70
24	1938	The Lady in the Morgue	Mrs. Horn (uncredited)	63
25	1938	Air Devils	Margaret Price	23
26	1938	The Devil's Party	Maria	49
27	1938	City Streets	Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)	0
28	1938	Frontier Scout	Helen	45
29	1938	Dramatic School	Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)	62
30	1939	Four Girls in White	Miss Perch - a Nurse	63
31	1939	You Can't Cheat an Honest Man	Screaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)	69
32	1939	S.O.S Tidal Wave		57
33	1939	Second Fiddle	Miss Bland, the School Principal	49
34	1939	Golden Boy	Grocery Customer	65
35	1939	No Place to Go	Miss Rice	60
36	1939	Maid to Order	Mail-Order Bride	0
37	1939	Dancing Co-Ed	Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)	62
38	1939	Sabotage	(uncredited)	70
39	1939	Destry Rides Again	Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)	72
40	1939	Missing Evidence	Amy, Housewife	50
41	1940	The Sagebrush Family Trails West	Widow Gail	0
42	1940	You Can't Fool Your Wife	Mrs. Doolittle	45
43	1940	Boys of the City	Agnes	50
44	1940	Wildcat Bus	Old Maid (uncredited)	46
45	1940	The Ape	Townswoman	48
46	1940	No, No, Nanette	Woman in Airport	60
47	1940	San Francisco Docks	Landlady	60
48	1941	Arkansas Judge	Miranda Wolfson	0
49	1941	Golden Hoofs	Myrt	70
50	1941	Murder Among Friends	Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)	0
51	1941	A Man Betrayed	Librarian (uncredited)	54
52	1941	The Cowboy and the Blonde	Murphy	0
53	1941	Murder by Invitation	Maxine Denham	56
54	1941	Accent on Love	Teresa Lombroso	60
55	1941	Bowery Blitzkrieg	Head of Reform School (uncredited)	58
56	1941	Dressed to Kill	Landlady	63
57	1941	Never Give a Sucker an Even Break	The Cleaning Lady	69
58	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Nurse (uncredited)	66
59	1941	Marry the Boss's Daughter	Elevator Passenger	0
60	1942	Lady for a Night	Spinster in Audience (uncredited)	52
61	1942	A Tragedy at Midnight	Housekeeper (uncredited)	40
62	1942	My Favorite Blonde	Stone-Faced Woman (uncredited)	64
63	1942	The Corpse Vanishes	Fagah	42
64	1942	In Old California	Mrs. Carson	51
65	1942	Henry and Dizzy	Mrs. Kilmer	0
66	1942	Beyond the Blue Horizon	Wife at Circus (uncredited)	0
67	1942	Sons of the Pioneers	Ellie Bixby	0
68	1942	Sweater Girl	Melinda	40
69	1942	The Living Ghost	Delia Phillips	43
70	1942	The Man in the Trunk	Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)	0
71	1942	The Daring Young Man	Nurse	43
72	1942	Riding Through Nevada	Widow Humbolt	0
73	1942	That Other Woman	Mrs. MacReady	55
74	1943	They Stooge to Conga	Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)	71
75	1943	The Powers Girl	Maggie (uncredited)	65
76	1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)	75
77	1943	Kid Dynamite	Judge	66
78	1943	Something to Shout About	Mrs. Starretton	58
79	1943	Keep 'Em Slugging	Miss Billings	55
80	1943	The Ape Man	Agatha Brewster	42
81	1943	Dixie Dugan	Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)	50
82	1943	Quiet Please, Murder	Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron	68
83	1943	Hit the Ice	Wife at Hospital (uncredited)	59
84	1943	Ghosts on the Loose	Hilda	42
85	1943	So This Is Washington	Mrs. Pomeroy (uncredited)	50
86	1943	Pitchin' in the Kitchen	Miss Clabber (uncredited)	0
87	1943	Dangerous Blondes	Mrs. Swanson, Housekeeper (uncredited)	60
88	1944	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Uncle Pio's Servant (uncredited)	60
89	1944	Bachelor Daze	Abigail O'Rourke	0
90	1944	Mr. Skeffington	Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)	66
91	1944	Man from Frisco	Mrs. Allison	60
92	1944	Louisiana Hayride	Ma Crocker	60
93	1944	Block Busters	Amelia Rogiet	0
94	1944	When Strangers Marry	Landlady (uncredited)	61
95	1944	Moonlight and Cactus	Abigail	40
96	1944	The Mark of the Whistler	Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)	60
97	1944	One Mysterious Night	Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)	59
98	1944	Crazy Knights	Mrs. Benson	46
99	1945	The Kid Sister	Mrs. Wiggins	60
100	1945	Salty O'Rourke	Saleslady (uncredited)	52
101	1945	A Medal for Benny	Mrs. Chavez (uncredited)	45
102	1945	Wanderer of the Wasteland	Mama Rafferty	75
103	1945	A Bell for Adano	Italian Woman	57
104	1945	Mr. Muggs Rides Again	Nora Brown	50
105	1945	State Fair	Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)	66
106	1945	Men in Her Diary	Mrs. Braun	0
107	1945	Sensation Hunters	Edna Rogers	47
108	1945	Voice of the Whistler	Georgie's Wife (uncredited)	57
109	1945	The Bells of St. Mary's	Landlady (uncredited)	68
110	1946	Breakfast in Hollywood	Miss Mullins (uncredited)	50
111	1946	Partners in Time	Miss Abernathy (uncredited)	60
112	1946	The Dark Corner	Client Wife (uncredited)	66
113	1946	The Virginian		61
114	1946	Rainbow Over Texas	Mama Lolita	40
115	1946	Without Reservations	Sue (uncredited)	62
116	1946	The Well Groomed Bride	Woman in Ticket Line	40
117	1946	Sioux City Sue	Mrs. Abercrombie - Elite Hotel Manager (uncredited)	0
118	1946	The Trap	Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper	67
119	1946	Wake Up and Dream	Edna Lucash	65
120	1946	Andy Plays Hookey	Andy's Mother-in-Law	0
121	1947	Apache Rose	Felicia	62
122	1947	The Devil Thumbs a Ride		65
123	1947	California	Emma (uncredited)	65
124	1947	Undercover Maisie	Cafe Cook	80
125	1947	Undercover Maisie	Delicatessen Woman (Uncredited)	80
126	1947	Hired Husband	Aunt Jessie	0
127	1947	Heartaches	Charwoman (uncredited)	45
128	1947	Cynthia	Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)	59
129	1947	The Lost Moment	Maria	63
130	1947	Bowery Buckaroos	Kate T. Barlow	65
131	1948	Sitting Pretty	Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)	72
132	1948	April Showers	Landlady (uncredited)	60
133	1948	The Noose Hangs High	Husky Woman (uncredited)	68
134	1948	Secret Service Investigator	Mrs McGiven	60
135	1948	Marshal of Amarillo	Mrs. Henry Pettigrew	0
136	1948	Night Has a Thousand Eyes	Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)	67
137	1948	Variety Time	Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)	0
138	1948	Good Sam	Mrs. Nelson	60
139	1948	The Strange Mrs. Crane	Nellie Carter	60
140	1948	Sundown in Santa Fe	Ella Mae Watson	0
141	1948	Family Honeymoon	Mrs. Webb (uncredited)	57
142	1949	The Lovable Cheat	Virginie	30
143	1949	The Doolins of Oklahoma	Train Passenger (uncredited)	68
144	1949	Outcasts of the Trail	Abbie Rysen	0
145	1949	Take One False Step	Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)	55
146	1949	Holiday in Havana	Mama Valdez	50
147	1949	Master Minds	Mrs. Hoskins	58
148	1950	His Baiting Beauty	Harry's Mother-in-Law	60
149	1950	Side Street	Landlady	66
150	1950	Quicksand	Landlady	60
151	1950	The Arizona Cowboy	Cactus Kate Millican	0
152	1950	The Jackpot	Woman Trying On Hats (uncredited)	69
153	1951	Stop That Cab	Lucy's Mother	0
154	1951	The Awful Sleuth	Bert's Mother-In-Law	0
155	1951	Dear Brat	Neighbor (uncredited)	40
156	1951	The Raging Tide	Johnnie Mae Swanson	52
157	1952	Harem Girl	Aniseh	50
158	1952	Oklahoma Annie	Lottie Fling	80
159	1952	Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick	Mrs. Peabody	40
160	1952	Gobs and Gals	Mrs. Pursell	0
161	1952	Lost in Alaska	Mrs. McGillicuddy	60
162	1953	Niagara	Mrs. McGrand	68
163	1953	She's Back on Broadway	Cleaning Lady	57
164	1953	Woman They Almost Lynched	Mrs. Stuart	62
165	1953	Two Gun Marshal	Mama Antonelli	0
166	1955	Marty	Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)	74
167	1955	Double Jeopardy	Mrs. Kreesy	54
168	1955	A Man Alone	Mrs. Maule (uncredited)	57
169	1955	Sudden Danger	Mrs. Kelly	53
170	1962	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation	Brenda	64
171	1964	7 Faces of Dr. Lao	Kate Lindquist	69
172	1965	That Funny Feeling	Woman at Phone Booth	59

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Gene Autry Show		42
2	1951	The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok		45
3	1951	The Roy Rogers Show		64
4	1952	Cavalcade of America		35
5	1952	The Abbott and Costello Show	Indian Woman	71
6	1952	The Abbott and Costello Show	Singing Student	71
7	1952	The Abbott and Costello Show	Woman Checking Out Bud and Lou's Apartment	71
8	1953	Meet Mr. McNutley		70
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Busybody	77
10	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie	Ma Bowie	45
11	1957	Perry Mason	Landlady	77
12	1957	Perry Mason	Martha Glenhorn	77
13	1958	The Adventures of Tugboat Annie		0
14	1958	Peter Gunn	Mother	65
15	1960	Angel		28
16	1963	Petticoat Junction	Martha Winslow	58
17	1963	Petticoat Junction	Martha Griffin	58