Mira McKinney

Mira McKinney

Nacimiento : 1892-10-23,

Muerte : 1978-05-02

Perfil

Mira McKinney

Películas

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.
La envidiosa
Mrs. Winston (Uncredited)
Harriet es una mujer fría y calculadora que ama su casa y su pequeño mundo material más de lo que nunca podrá amar a una persona. El temor a que un fracaso económico pudiera hacerle perder sus propiedades y su bienestar la impulsará a engañar a su marido asegurándole que es estéril.
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.
Niñera moderna
Mrs. Phillips (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
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
Duke Martin es un gánster que planea atracar, con la ayuda de su amante, la peluquería donde ella trabaja. El local no es más que la tapadera de una casa ilegal de apuestas. Durante el atraco, algo sale mal y un policía es asesinado. Duke se las ingenia para que la policía sospeche de Steve Ryan. Será la hermana de Steve quien decida investigar por su cuenta para desenmascarar al verdadero culpable.
Beat the Band
Mrs. Elvira Rogers
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
La gran pasión
Telsman
Historia de amor entre un tiránico director de orquesta y su alumna pianista a través del tiempo.
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.
¿Ángel o diablo?
Mrs. Judd (uncredited)
Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews) se ve obligado a bajar del autobús en que viaja porque no tiene dinero para todo el trayecto. Es así como llega a un pueblo desconocido, donde empieza a frecuentar un local de comidas, cuya principal atracción es una hermosa camarera llamada Stella. Un clásico del cine negro.
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.
Mis cuatro amores
Actress at Party (Uncredited)
Susan Darell (Joan Fontaine) a lo largo de su vida recuerda cómo fue amada por cuatro hombres que la veían de maneras diferentes.
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.
El fantasma de la momia
Martha Evans
La Momia busca por todas partes la última reencarnación de su amada, la princesa Ananka. Mientras tanto, el Sumo Sacerdote de la Secta instruye a uno de sus acólitos sobre la manera de resucitar a la Momia hirviendo unas hierbas milenarias.
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.
La tumba de la momia
Vic's Wife (uncredited)
Un fanático instruido por un adorador egipcio utiliza el secreto para revivir a la momia para que cumplimente su venganza.
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.
Camino de Santa Fe
Survivor at Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
Como castigo por una pelea con sus compañeros días antes de graduarse en West Point, Jeb Stuart, George Armstrong Custer y cuatro amigos más, son destinados al Segundo de Caballería, estacionado en Fort Leavenworth. Durante su estancia allí, deberán participar en la captura y ejecución del abolicionista, John Brown, tras la Batalla de Harper Ferry.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Ms. Dell
Margot (Myrna Loy), la editora de una glamurosa revista femenina, para evitar el continuo asedio de sus colegas masculinos y la cólera de sus celosas esposas, decide ponerse un anillo de oro en el tercer dedo de la mano izquierda, haciendo ver que está casada. Todo se complica cuando el artista Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), harto de sus continuos fracasos con Margot, decide fingir ante todo el mundo ser su marido, que se creía desaparecido hace mucho tiempo.
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.
Siete torres
Mrs. Reynolds
En 1828, la familia Pyncheon, que está en bancarrota, luchan por Seven Gables, la mansión familiar. Para conseguir la casa, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtiene la falsa condena de su hermano Clifford por asesinato. Hepzibah, la dulce prometida de Clifford, espera pacientemente veinte años su liberación, por lo que Clifford y su antiguo compañero de celda, el abolicionista Matthew, tienen un plan en mente.
El bazar de las sorpresas
Customer (uncredited)
Alfred Kralik es el tímido jefe de vendedores de Matuschek y Compañía, una tienda de Budapest. Todas las mañanas, los empleados esperan juntos la llegada de su jefe, Hugo Matuschek. A pesar de su timidez, Alfred responde al anuncio de un periódico y mantiene un romance por carta. Su jefe decide contratar a una tal Klara Novak en contra de la opinión de Alfred. En el trabajo, Alfred discute constantemente con ella, sin sospechar que es su corresponsal secreta.
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.
La quimera de Hollywood
Rodowsky Admirer (Uncredited)
Un cantante que aspira a convertirse en compositor es acusado de un crimen y debe demostrar su inocencia. Por otro lado, los delincuentes responsables le amenazan para que no vuelva a cantar. Mientras medita sobre su futuro, Nino Maretti se enamora de la bella Jean.
Capitanes intrépidos
Bit Role (uncredited)
Harvey, el hijo arrogante y malcriado de un padre poco cariñoso, cae por la borda de un barco de vapor transatlántico y es rescatado por un barco de pesca en el Gran Banco de Terranova. Harvey trata de convencerles para que lo lleven a tierra alardeando de su riqueza ante la tripulación, aunque nadie le toma en serio. El capitán le ofrece un trabajo mal pagado hasta que regresen a puerto. El duro trabajo como uno más de la tripulación convierte al joven en un hombre maduro y considerado.
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.
Furia
Hysterical Townswoman at Trial (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.
Tiempos modernos
Minister's Wife
Extenuado por el frenético ritmo de la cadena de montaje, un obrero metalúrgico acaba perdiendo la razón. Después de recuperarse en un hospital, sale y es encarcelado por participar en una manifestación en la que se encontraba por casualidad. En la cárcel, también sin pretenderlo, ayuda a controlar un motín, gracias a lo cual queda en libertad. Una vez fuera, reemprende la lucha por la supervivencia en compañía de una joven huérfana a la que conoce en la calle.