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.
Acting
Movie
Shadow of a Doubt
as Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Marty
as Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)
1955
Movie
Niagara
as Mrs. McGrand
1953
Movie
Fury
as Fanny (uncredited)
1936
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Busybody
1955
Movie
Destry Rides Again
as Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)
1939
Movie
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Landlady (uncredited)
1945
TV
Perry Mason
as Landlady
1957
TV
Perry Mason
as Martha Glenhorn
1957
Movie
They Died with Their Boots On
as Nurse (uncredited)
1941
Movie
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
as Kate Lindquist
1964
Movie
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
as Brenda
1962
Movie
The Corpse Vanishes
as Fagah
1942
Movie
State Fair
as Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Mr. Skeffington
as Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
1944
Movie
The Dark Corner
as Client Wife (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Bombshell
as Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
1933
Movie
Sitting Pretty
as Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)
1948
Movie
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
as Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
1948
Movie
Side Street
as Landlady
1950
Movie
The Ape Man
as Agatha Brewster
1943
Movie
The Ape
as Townswoman
1940
Movie
Quicksand
as Landlady
1950
TV
Petticoat Junction
as Martha Winslow
1963