Mira McKinney

Mira McKinney

Birth : 1892-10-23,

Death : 1978-05-02

Profile

Mira McKinney

Movies

Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
The Unknown Man
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
The Blue Veil
Customer (Uncredited)
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Heart of the Rockies
Mrs. Edsel
Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.
The Groom Wore Spurs
Mrs. Forbes
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
Hunt the Man Down
Rolene's Aunt (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Harriet Craig
Mrs. Winston (Uncredited)
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
Trail of the Rustlers
Mrs. J.G. Mahoney
Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in this entry in Columbia's long-running Durango Kid Western series.
Sitting Pretty
Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Linda, Be Good
Mrs. Thompson
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
Railroaded!
Beauty Salon Owner
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
Beat the Band
Mrs. Elvira Rogers
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
I've Always Loved You
Telsman
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Junior Prom
Isabel Rogers
During the Whitney High School student government election, a rich man’s son tries to pay his way into office with promises of new athletic uniforms. His desperate competitors decide to stage a series of song and dance spectacles to try to garner votes.
Shadows Over Chinatown
Kate Johnson
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
Fallen Angel
Mrs. Judd (uncredited)
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Rough Riders of Cheyenne
Harriet Sterling
Sunset returns to find the Carson-Sterling feud still going. Sterling has been killed and it's not long before Andrew Carson is murdered. To end the feud Sunset challenges Martin Sterling to a shootout. Unknown to Sunset, Martin's sister Melinda has waylaid her brother and now appears for the shootout disguised in her brother's clothes.
The Affairs of Susan
Actress at Party (Uncredited)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
The Man Who Walked Alone
Jail Matron
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
The Mummy's Ghost
Martha Evans
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
Moonlight in Vermont
Elvira
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
Keep 'Em Slugging
Customer
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Madame Spy
Red Cross Woman
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
The Mummy's Tomb
Vic's Wife (uncredited)
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Double Trouble
Mrs. Whitmore
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
One Foot in Heaven
Movie Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
A Dangerous Game
Mrs. Hubbard
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
Bachelor Daddy
Landlady
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Santa Fe Trail
Survivor at Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Ms. Dell
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Earthbound
Minor Role
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
Bad Man from Red Butte
Miss Woods
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.
Hot Steel
Elvira Appleby (as Myra McKinney)
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
Alias the Deacon
Mrs. Gregory
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
An Angel from Texas
Mrs. Mills
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
The House of the Seven Gables
Mrs. Reynolds
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
The Shop Around the Corner
Customer (uncredited)
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
I Stole a Million
Mrs. Loomis (uncredited)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Cafe Society
Secretary
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Garden of the Moon
Sarah - Champagne Customer (uncredited)
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
The Road to Reno
Hannah
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Young Fugitives
Letty
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
Music for Madame
Rodowsky Admirer (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Captains Courageous
Bit Role (uncredited)
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Blazing Sixes
Aunt Sarah
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
The Case Of The Stuttering Bishop
Ida Gilbert
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
Fury
Hysterical Townswoman at Trial (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Modern Times
Minister's Wife
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.