Minerva Urecal

Minerva Urecal

Nacimiento : 1894-09-22, Eureka, California, USA

Muerte : 1966-02-26

Historia

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.

Perfil

Minerva Urecal

Películas

Trampa para un soltero
Woman at Phone Booth
Una joven (Sandra Dee) que se gana la vida limpiando apartamentos, conoce a un guapo decorador de interiores (Bobby Darin), pero, como se avergüenza de enseñarle el modesto apartamento en el que vive con una compañera, decide llevarlo a uno de los bonitos apartamentos que limpia, dando por supuesto que el dueño estará fuera durante la semana.
Las Siete Caras del Dr. Lao
Kate Lindquist
El misterioso circo del Doctor Lao desencadena un torrente de magia y misticismo en un polvoriento pueblo de Arizona.
Un optimista de vacaciones
Brenda
Un padre de familia de clase media (James Stewart) tiene que sufrir un sinfín de incomodidades y resolver problemas sin cuento cuando se marcha de vacaciones a la playa con su numerosísima familia.
Sudden Danger
Mrs. Kelly
Det Andy Doyle (Bill Elliott) suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace (Tom Drake) who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth..
Un hombre solo
Mrs. Maule (uncredited)
Wes Steele, un pistolero acusado de varios delitos, logra escapar de un intento de linchamiento. En su huida va a parar a Arizona, región a la que acude todo tipo de gentes atraídas por la "fiebre del oro" que asoló el Oeste americano. Allí se enamora de la hija del sheriff, una joven bastante rebelde. Completamente decidido a cambiar radicalmente de vida, sabe que primero debe arreglar sus cuentas con la ley.
Double Jeopardy
Mrs. Kreesy
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
Marty
Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)
Marty es un carnicero solterón que todavía vive con su madre. Suele salir con frecuencia con sus amigos por la noche, intentando encontrar a alguna chica con la que compartir su vida y hacer planes para el futuro.
Two Gun Marshal
Mama Antonelli
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
Woman They Almost Lynched
Mrs. Stuart
Durante la Guerra de Secesión, Border City es un pueblo minero situado entre la zona unionista y la confederada, y está dirigido con mano de hierro por su alcaldesa y principal empresaria, que castiga con la horca a aquellos que no respetan su neutralidad. Sally Maris llega para visitar a su hermano Bill escoltada por la banda de Quantrill, que ha interceptado y asaltado su diligencia poco antes y pretende hacerse con plomo de las minas del lugar. La esposa de William Quantrill, Kate, era la novia de Bill antes de ser raptada por el jefe guerrillero, pero ahora le provoca y el capataz Lance Horton se ve obligado a matar a Bill en legítima defensa. Debido a las deudas de su hermano, a Sally no le queda más remedio que asumir la dirección del saloon y Lance siente el deber de erigirse en su protector.
She's Back on Broadway
Cleaning Lady
Una estrella de Hollywood en decadencia vuelve a los escenarios para trabajar con el hombre que la descubrió.
Niágara
Mrs. McGrand
George Loomis (Joseph Cotten) y su esposa Rose (Marilyn Monroe), se van de vacaciones a las cataratas del Niágara. Las fuertes crisis emocionales que padece George, afectan hondamente a su joven y bella esposa, y esto la predispone a aceptar los galanteos de un apuesto joven que conoce durante un paseo... Una gran tragedia comenzará a tomar forma de aquí en adelante.
Perdidos en Alaska
Mrs. McGillicuddy
Abbott y Costello son una pareja de bomberos que salvan la vida de Nugget cuando éste trataba de suicidarse. El motivo es que su novia lo ha dejado, algo que no ha podido superar. Los bomberos deciden ayudar al tipo, lo que les acarreará un gran problema con la justicia. Cuando van con él a su pueblo natal para intentar solucionar las cosas con su chica, descubren que muchos de sus vecinos preferirían que estuviera muerto.
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Mrs. Peabody
Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
Oklahoma Annie
Lottie Fling
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Harem Girl
Aniseh
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
The Raging Tide
Johnnie Mae Swanson
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
Mi adorable chiquilla
Neighbor (uncredited)
Miriam Wilkins, hija del senador Wilkins de la alta sociedad, se involucra con un ladrón tratando de reformarse... Secuela de "Dear Ruth" y la posterior "Dear Wife", acerca de la familia Wilkins.
The Awful Sleuth
Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on, smiling Memphis Mike.
Stop That Cab
Lucy's Mother
Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
Cuidado con los inspectores
Woman Trying On Hats
Cuenta la historia de un individuo felizmente casado, con trabajo y dos niños, cuya vida cambia radicalmente cuando gana un concurso radiofónico de preguntas y respuestas, convirtiéndose en una celebridad.
The Arizona Cowboy
Cactus Kate Millican
A singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.
Peligros de juventud
Landlady
El mecánico de coches Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) no tiene dinero suficiente para una cita de altura con la camarera Vera (Jeanne Cagney), cuyo mayor deseo es tener un abrigo de visón. Así que decide pedir prestados 20 dólares a su jefe. A partir de ese momento, sólo conseguirá complicarse cada vez más la vida.
Calle lateral
Landlady
El cartero Joe Norson (Farley Granger) y su mujer (Cathy O'Donnell) esperan un hijo. Él desea una vida mejor para los suyos, pero carece de medios. En un acceso y sin pensarlo, roba un sobre con dinero en un despacho de su ruta de reparto, pensando que habría poco dinero pero se encuentra con $ 30.000. El dinero es producto de un chantaje de una banda de criminales. Joe usa parte del dinero para mejorar la vida familiar, pero, al final, se siente culpable e intenta devolverlo a los criminales.
His Baiting Beauty
Harry's Mother-in-Law
Harry has to leave town on a business trip to take part in the opening of a new radio station. However, his wife suspects that he is actually going to meet another woman.
Master Minds
Mrs. Hoskins
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
Holiday in Havana
Mama Valdez
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.
Un paso en falso
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
El profesor Andrew Gentling está en Los Ángeles buscando una nueva universidad. Allí se encuentra a una antigua pareja suya, Catherine Sykes. Al día siguiente, Catherine desaparece, y su amiga Martha convence a Andrew de que él es el primer sospechoso. Andrew decide investigar el caso antes de que le arresten, pero esto sólo le pone en peligro.
Outcasts of the Trail
Abbie Rysen
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
The Lovable Cheat
Virginie
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
Family Honeymoon
Mrs. Webb (uncredited)
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.
Sundown in Santa Fe
Ella Mae Watson
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left in every robbery by Walter Durant, fugitive leader of the President Lincoln murder ring. Rocky is sent to Santa Fe to find Durant and arrest him and the gang of outlaws he controls. Rocky soon finds that the information for every robbery comes from Tom, who is the son of the sheriff. But Rocky has to arrest the whole gang, and he does not know who is part of the gang and where Durant may be hiding.
Mil ojos tiene la noche
Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
La película arranca con el intento de suicidio de una rica heredera. En flash-back vemos cómo alguien que trabaja en un teatro y que posee la asombrosa facultad de adivinar el futuro, se siente cada vez más angustiado porque no puede impedir que se cumplan sus peores premoniciones.
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Nellie Carter
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
El buen Sam
Mrs. Nelson
Sam Clayton es un hombre de gran corazón que siempre está ayudando a los demás. Pero su actitud para con los suyos le traerá también una serie de desventuras.
Variety Time
Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)
Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
Marshal of Amarillo
Mrs. Henry Pettigrew
Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.
Secret Service Investigator
Mrs McGiven
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
The Noose Hangs High
Husky Woman (uncredited)
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
April Showers
Landlady (uncredited)
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
Niñera moderna
Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)
Tacey y Harry King, acaban de quedarse sin niñera para sus tres traviesos chicos. Cualquier otro intento de hacerse a una nueva babysitter resulta frustrado... hasta que a Tacey (Maureen O'Hara), se le ocurre poner un anuncio en el periódico que pronto recibe respuesta de Lynn Belvedere, pero, cuando ellos esperan a una eficiente joven, llega un elegante caballero (Clifton Webb) que traerá consigo un montón de cambios y sorpresas. Entonces, este genio, hará que Harry (Robert Young) conozca los celos y otras cosas de su propia personalidad. Y entre tanto, los cotillas de Hummingbird Hill, tendrán otro espacio para inmiscuirse
Bowery Buckaroos
Kate T. Barlow
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
Viviendo el pasado
Maria
El editor Lewis Venable, un hombre enamorado de su profesión, va a Venecia con la esperanza de que Juliana Bordeau ponga a su disposición las cartas de amor que, a mediados del siglo XIX, le escribió el poeta Jeffrey Ashton. Para conseguir su propósito se presenta en casa de la dama haciéndose pasar por escritor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cynthia
Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Hired Husband
Aunt Jessie
The millionairess aunt of Errol's previously married wife is coming to visit, and since the aunt is dead set against divorce, the wife prevails upon Errol to pose as the butler, and brings back her inebriated first husband to pose as her current mate.
Undercover Maisie
Delicatessen Woman (Uncredited)
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Undercover Maisie
Cafe Cook
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
California
Emma
Trumbo (Milland), un desertor del ejército, es el guía de un grupo de colonos, entre los que están Lily (Stanwyck) y Michael Fabian (Fitzgerald), que se dirigen a California, empujados por el afan de aventuras y por la fiebre del oro. Cuando llegan, se encuentran con una ciudad dominada por la anarquía, donde el malvado capitán Coffin (Couloris) impone su ley despóticamente. Trumbo se encargará de desbaratar los intentos de Coffin de provocar una sublevación en California.
Autostop al infierno
Un viajante de comercio que regresa de una fiesta, habiendo bebido unas copas, recoge a un autoestopista en la carretera. El joven no sabe que en realidad su pasajero es un delincuente muy peligroso que acaba de cometer un crimen.
Apache Rose
Felicia
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat determined to control the land (and oil) themselves.
Andy Plays Hookey
Andy's Mother-in-Law
Andy makes elaborate plans to attend a prizefight, and they all backfire.
Wake Up and Dream
Edna Lucash
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
The Trap
Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
The Well Groomed Bride
Woman in Ticket Line
El film es una pequeña broma de 75 minutos que tiene lugar en San Francisco, cuando un hombre y una mujer pelean por una botella de champán que ella quiere para una boda y él para botar un barco.
Sucedió en el tren
Sue (uncredited)
Kit Madden es una novelista que viaja en tren a Hollywood para colaborar en una película que se basa en su nuevo libro 'Aquí está el mañana'. Durante el trayecto conoce al marine Rusty Thomas, un caballero que discutirá con ella diversos aspectos del libro, mostrando su desacuerdo en algunos puntos, sin saber que está hablando con la autora.
Rainbow Over Texas
Mama Lolita
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express race. To keep him from winning, bad guys try to sabatoge Roy's entry. They fail, or course. Songs include the title song and "Smile for me, Senorita."
Envuelto en la sombra
Client Wife (uncredited)
Un detective privado, que casi vive en la miseria, descubre un día que lo están siguiendo. Tras acorralar a su perseguidor, averigua que actúa a las órdenes de un antiguo socio con el que acabó enemistado. Poco después se ve envuelto en un calculado plan de asesinato.
Partners in Time
Miss Abernathy (uncredited)
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
Breakfast in Hollywood
Miss Mullins (uncredited)
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Las campanas de Santa María
Landlady (uncredited)
El padre O'Malley acaba de llegar a su nuevo destino como sacerdote del colegio de monjas y la parroquia de Santa María, en un barrio humilde de Nueva York. Pronto se verá enredado en los problemas del barrio y de los alumnos, lo que le lleva a formar un coro para sacar a los chicos de la calle. La vida del colegio le lleva a estrechar la relación con la hermana Benedicta, superiora del convento y directora del colegio, y a participar de las ilusiones de la congregación: que un millonario done un moderno edificio cercano como nueva sede del vetusto colegio.
Voice of the Whistler
Georgie's Wife (uncredited)
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Sensation Hunters
Edna Rogers
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Men in Her Diary
Mrs. Braun
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
La feria del Estado
Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
Los Frake, una familia de granjeros, acuden a la feria del estado de Iowa. En el primer día de la feria la hija de los Frake, la siempre descontenta Margy, conoce al apuesto Pat Gilbert...
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Nora Brown
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
La campana de la libertad
Italian Woman
A finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el comandante Joppolo es destinado con su unidad a una población italiana para que se encargue de tomar posiciones. A pesar de su misión, poco a poco terminará implicándose en la vida de ese pueblo siciliano.
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Mama Rafferty
In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this time opts not to kill him for the cowboy has fallen in love with the outlaw's niece. Later, the killer ends up killed and the hero is blamed for the crime.
Donde nacen los héroes
Neighbor (uncredited)
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En un pequeño pueblo del sur de California, un hombre de origen indio (Arturo de Cordova) trata de conquistar a una bella joven (Dorothy Lamour), pero a ella sólo parece interesarle su novio, que está combatiendo en el Pacífico.
Fuera de la ley
Saleslady (uncredited)
La acción tiene lugar en el mundo de las carreras de caballos, cuando un jugador con deudas falsifica la partida de nacimiento de un jockey para que pueda participar en una trascendental carrera. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Kid Sister
Mrs. Wiggins
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.
Crazy Knights
Mrs. Benson
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
One Mysterious Night
Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
The Mark of the Whistler
Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
Moonlight and Cactus
Abigail
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
When Strangers Marry
Landlady
Una mujer comienza a sospechar que su nuevo marido puede ser un asesino.
Block Busters
Amelia Rogiet
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
Louisiana Hayride
Ma Crocker
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
Man from Frisco
Mrs. Allison
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
El señor Skeffington
Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
Nueva York, 1914. Para salvar a su hermano, que ha cometido un desfalco, Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis), una mujer egoísta que sólo se preocupa por su belleza, se ve obligada a casarse con Job Skeffington Claude Rains), el director del banco, un hombre poco atractivo y mucho mayor que ella, pero paciente y bondadoso. El matrimonio, concertado y sin amor, pasará por varias etapas en las que ambos verán pasar dos guerra mundiales, varios amantes, una cruel enfermedad, persecuciones nazis, la ceguera y el pánico al envejecimiento.
Bachelor Daze
Abigail O'Rourke
Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the local battle axe played by Minerva Urecal has a crush on him but Slim lacks the nerve to ask her to marry him.
Dangerous Blondes
Mrs. Swanson-Housekeeper
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
La casa encantada
Hilda
La hermosa hermana de Glimpy se casa con Jack, un ingeniero joven, y deciden mudarse a una casa suburbana que ninguno de los dos había visto hasta entonces. Durante la luna de miel, los niños del barrio este de Nueva York deciden arreglar la casa para los recién casados, pero erróneamente adornan la casa "encantada", que está justo al lado de su casa, y que a su vez es ocupada por algunos hombres misteriosos. Al llegar de la luna de miel, los recién casados se meten en la casa adornada pensando que es la suya...
Hit the Ice
Wife at Hospital (uncredited)
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
Quiet Please, Murder
Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Dixie Dugan
Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
The Ape Man
Agatha Brewster
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
Keep 'Em Slugging
Miss Billings
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.
Something to Shout About
Mrs. Starretton
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
Kid Dynamite
Judge
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
La sombra de una duda
Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)
A casa de sus familiares, en el tranquilo pueblo de Santa Rosa, llega un día el encantador tío Charlie, un seductor criminal que viaja de Filadelfia a California y al que la justicia va pisando los talones. Su sobrina Charlie, a pesar de que no sabe nada de sus actividades, no tardará en sospechar que su tío es el misterioso asesino de viudas al que la policía anda buscando.
The Powers Girl
Maggie (uncredited)
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
They Stooge to Conga
Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)
The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
That Other Woman
Mrs. MacReady
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
Riding Through Nevada
Widow Humbolt
Riding Through Nevada is a western starring Charles Starrett
The Daring Young Man
Nurse
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
The Man in the Trunk
Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
The Living Ghost
Delia Phillips
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
Sweater Girl
Melinda
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
Sons of the Pioneers
Ellie Bixby
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
Horizontes salvajes
Wife at Circus (uncredited)
Una mujer que ha permanecido en una isla desierta desde que sus padres fueran asesinados por una manada de furiosos elefantes, es rescatada y llevada de nuevo a San Francisco, donde tiene que reclamar su herencia.
Henry and Dizzy
Mrs. Kilmer
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
En el viejo California
Mrs. Carson
Tom Craig (John Wayne) llega a Sacramento (California) con el fin de establecer allí una farmacia. Pero la ciudad está dominada por Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker), y muy pronto estallará la guerra entre ambos.
El ladrón de cuerpos
Fagah
Bela Lugosi interpreta a un científico enloquecido en sus esfuerzos por mantener joven el aspecto de su envejecida esposa mediante transfusiones de jóvenes vírgenes a las que secuestra y asesina para sus diabólicos fines. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mi rubia favorita
Stone-Faced Woman (uncredited)
Karen Bentley, una agente especial inglesa, tiene que formar equipo con el estrambótico Larry Haines, para frustrar los planes de unos espías alemanes.
A Tragedy at Midnight
Housekeeper
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Dama por una noche
Spinster in Audience (uncredited)
Jenny Blake (Joan Blondell) es la joven propietaria de un barco casino del Mississippi. Jack Morgan (John Wayne) es un jugador fascinado por ella hasta el punto de enamorarse. Al llegar el carnaval, Jack se las ingenia para que Jenny sea escogida la Reina anual, lo que ella aprovecha para introducirse en la alta sociedad de Memphis. Pronto surge la oportunidad de contraer matrimonio con un hombre rico y Jenny la aprovecha, pero la familia de alta sociedad no la acepta y deciden humillarla. Jack, que nunca había dejado de amar a Jenny, correrá a salvarla de un mundo que Jenny ya no desea conocer.
Marry the Boss's Daughter
Elevator Passenger
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
Murieron con las botas puestas
Nurse (uncredited)
George Custer (Errol Flynn) llega a la Academia de West Point lleno de arrogancia y vanidad. Su carácter indisciplinado le ocasionará numerosos problemas con sus superiores. A pesar de todo, y debido a la acuciante necesidad de oficiales para la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), es enviado al frente. Terminada la guerra, se casa con Beth (Olivia de Havilland), pero pronto le asignan un nuevo destino: la guerra contra los indios. Al frente del Séptimo de Caballería, el Teniente Coronel Custer se enfrentará a los indios de Caballo Loco. La campaña termina con la famosa batalla de Little Big Horn (Montana, 1876).
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
The Cleaning Lady
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
Dressed to Kill
Landlady
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Head of Reform School
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
Accent on Love
Teresa Lombroso
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his spoiled wife, and joins the working classes, leading to his romance with a European immigrant.
Murder by Invitation
Maxine Denham
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
The Cowboy and the Blonde
Murphy
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
La rueda de la fortuna
Librarian (uncredited)
Lynn Hollister es un letrado que trata de averiguar lo que se oculta tras el asesinato de un amigo. Su principal sospechoso es Tom Cameron, pero Hollister pronto se enamorará de Sabra, la hija de éste.
Murder Among Friends
Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Golden Hoofs
Myrt
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
Arkansas Judge
Miranda Wolfson
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
No, No, Nanette
Woman in Airport
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
The Ape
Townswoman
El Dr. Bernard Adrian es un científico amable que busca curar la polio de una mujer joven. Necesita líquido cefalorraquídeo humano para completar la fórmula de su suero experimental. Mientras tanto, un simio de circo vicioso ha escapado de su jaula y está aterrorizando a la gente del pueblo. ¿Puede haber una conexión?
Wildcat Bus
Old Maid
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Boys of the City
Agnes
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Mrs. Doolittle
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
The Sagebrush Family Trails West
Widow Gail
The story concentrates on a travelling medicine show maintained by Bobby Clark and his relatives Minerva Urecal, Earle Hodgins and Joyce Bryant. Their progress is impeded when Hodgins is framed on a robbery charge, but Clark uses his fancy lariat to hog-tie the genuine crooks.
Missing Evidence
Amy, Housewife
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Arizona
Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)
Tom Destry, hijo de un legendario pacificador de la frontera, es un joven pacífico que rechaza todo tipo de violencia, por lo que es objeto de toda clase de burlas cuando recorre a caballo la ciudad de Bottleneck, el feudo personal de Kent. Las burlas aumentan cuando Destry nombra sheriff al borracho Wash Dimsdale. Esta actitud cambia cuando resulta que Destry, a pesar de odiar las armas, es un buen tirador. Mientras tanto, Frenchy, la cantante del saloon y novia de Kent, que se siente ofendida ante la indiferencia que Destry muestra hacia ella, jura poner en ridículo al nuevo sheriff.
Sabotage
(uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Dancing Co-Ed
Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Una universitaria se esfuerza por sobrevivir en la academia y en el mundo del espectáculo.
Maid to Order
Mail-Order Bride
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.
No Place to Go
Miss Rice
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
Sueño dorado
Grocery Customer
Un joven con vocación de violinista entra en el mundo del boxeo para conseguir algo de dinero, y sin darse cuenta, empieza a alejarse de su verdadero sueño. El padre intenta recordarle que su pasión es la música, pero al hijo no le resulta fácil reemprender ese camino.
Second Fiddle
Miss Bland, the School Principal
Un publicista (Power) conoce en Minnesota a una gran profesora de patinaje(Henie) a la que quiere llevar a Hollywood para que adquiera más fama. Finalmente ella decidirá regresar a su pueblo seguida del amor que el siente hacia ella.
S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
A mí no me engaña nadie
Screaming Spinster at Circus
El señor Whipsnade dirige un circo de mala muerte y vive abrumado por las deudas. Además, los artistas sólo le crean problemas, y sólo puede permitirse enviar a sus hijos a un colegio pésimo. Su hija Vicky rechaza a un pretendiente fastidioso pero muy rico. Sin embargo, cuando se entera de las graves dificultades económicas de su padre cambia de idea.
Four Girls in White
Miss Perch - a Nurse
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Dramatic School
Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Frontier Scout
Helen
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
City Streets
Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
The Devil's Party
Maria
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Air Devils
Margaret Price
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
The Lady in the Morgue
Mrs. Horn (uncredited)
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Start Cheering
Miss Grimley
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Prison Nurse
Sutherland
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
Exiled to Shanghai
Claire
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
She Loved a Fireman
Nurse Purdy
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Life Begins with Love
Mrs. Murphy
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
Behind the Mike
Mrs. Reilly
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Ever Since Eve
Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
The Go-Getter
Cappy Ricks 'secretary
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Mountain Justice
Ella Crippen
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
Oh, Doctor
Death Watch Mary Mackleforth
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
Her Husband's Secretary
Miss Baldwin
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Furia
Fanny (uncredited)
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
Three Godfathers
Parishioner (uncredited)
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Love on a Bet
Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
His Night Out
Wife (uncredited)
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
Here Comes the Band
Italian Wife (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
Student Tour
Wife
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Meet the Baron
Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Bombshell
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.