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.
Salty O'Rourke
Saleslady (uncredited)
State Fair
Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Mama Rafferty
The Corpse Vanishes
Fagah
The Living Ghost
Delia Phillips
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
The Cleaning Lady
Lady for a Night
Spinster in Audience (uncredited)
Double Jeopardy
Mrs. Kreesy
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Kate Lindquist
A Man Betrayed
Librarian (uncredited)
The Ape Man
Agatha Brewster
Without Reservations
Sue (uncredited)
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Head of Reform School (uncredited)
The Trap
Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper
Three Godfathers
Parishioner (uncredited)
Sioux City Sue
Mrs. Abercrombie - Elite Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Niagara
Mrs. McGrand
The Lovable Cheat
Virginie
The Lost Moment
Maria
The Jackpot
Woman Trying On Hats (uncredited)
Sudden Danger
Mrs. Kelly
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Uncle Pio's Servant (uncredited)
Pitchin' in the Kitchen
Miss Clabber (uncredited)
Frontier Scout
Helen
Murder Among Friends
Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)
The Arizona Cowboy
Cactus Kate Millican
The Raging Tide
Johnnie Mae Swanson
A Tragedy at Midnight
Housekeeper (uncredited)
They Stooge to Conga
Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)
Dear Brat
Neighbor (uncredited)
Love on a Bet
Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary
Accent on Love
Teresa Lombroso
Harem Girl
Aniseh
The Kid Sister
Mrs. Wiggins
No Place to Go
Miss Rice
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
Wake Up and Dream
Edna Lucash
Oklahoma Annie
Lottie Fling
Sweater Girl
Melinda
Exiled to Shanghai
Claire
Family Honeymoon
Mrs. Webb (uncredited)
Side Street
Landlady
Dramatic School
Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Nora Brown
Cynthia
Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)
My Favorite Blonde
Stone-Faced Woman (uncredited)
Louisiana Hayride
Ma Crocker
His Night Out
Wife (uncredited)
Prison Nurse
Sutherland
Air Devils
Margaret Price
The Lady in the Morgue
Mrs. Horn (uncredited)
She's Back on Broadway
Cleaning Lady
That Other Woman
Mrs. MacReady
Stop That Cab
Lucy's Mother
The Cowboy and the Blonde
Murphy
The Powers Girl
Maggie (uncredited)
The Awful Sleuth
Bert's Mother-In-Law
Arkansas Judge
Miranda Wolfson
Ever Since Eve
Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)
The Daring Young Man
Nurse
So This Is Washington
Mrs. Pomeroy (uncredited)
Four Girls in White
Miss Perch - a Nurse
A Medal for Benny
Mrs. Chavez (uncredited)
The Virginian
Start Cheering
Miss Grimley
Here Comes the Band
Italian Wife (uncredited)
Mountain Justice
Ella Crippen
Henry and Dizzy
Mrs. Kilmer
Woman They Almost Lynched
Mrs. Stuart
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Screaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)
Second Fiddle
Miss Bland, the School Principal
Golden Boy
Grocery Customer
Her Husband's Secretary
Miss Baldwin
Sitting Pretty
Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)
Bombshell
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again
Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)
Missing Evidence
Amy, Housewife
Dancing Co-Ed
Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Apache Rose
Felicia
San Francisco Docks
Landlady
Fury
Fanny (uncredited)
She Loved a Fireman
Nurse Purdy
Marty
Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)
Two Gun Marshal
Mama Antonelli
Gobs and Gals
Mrs. Pursell
The Bells of St. Mary's
Landlady (uncredited)
Sensation Hunters
Edna Rogers
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
The Man in the Trunk
Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)
Shadow of a Doubt
Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)
Crazy Knights
Mrs. Benson
Breakfast in Hollywood
Miss Mullins (uncredited)
Partners in Time
Miss Abernathy (uncredited)
Dixie Dugan
Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Wife at Circus (uncredited)
Boys of the City
Agnes
Dressed to Kill
Landlady
April Showers
Landlady (uncredited)
City Streets
Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)
Holiday in Havana
Mama Valdez
Bowery Buckaroos
Kate T. Barlow
Voice of the Whistler
Georgie's Wife (uncredited)
The Mark of the Whistler
Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)
Oh, Doctor
Death Watch Mary Mackleforth
The Sagebrush Family Trails West
Widow Gail
Moonlight and Cactus
Abigail
Student Tour
Wife
Man from Frisco
Mrs. Allison
The Ape
Townswoman
No, No, Nanette
Woman in Airport
Master Minds
Mrs. Hoskins
Mr. Skeffington
Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
Wildcat Bus
Old Maid (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
That Funny Feeling
Woman at Phone Booth
Sabotage
(uncredited)
Keep 'Em Slugging
Miss Billings
Riding Through Nevada
Widow Humbolt
Sons of the Pioneers
Ellie Bixby
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Mrs. Peabody
Rainbow Over Texas
Mama Lolita
Sundown in Santa Fe
Ella Mae Watson
Marshal of Amarillo
Mrs. Henry Pettigrew
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Mrs. Doolittle
In Old California
Mrs. Carson
Outcasts of the Trail
Abbie Rysen
Undercover Maisie
Delicatessen Woman (Uncredited)
Lost in Alaska
Mrs. McGillicuddy
They Died with Their Boots On
Nurse (uncredited)
Murder by Invitation
Maxine Denham
One Mysterious Night
Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)
Good Sam
Mrs. Nelson
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Brenda
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Nellie Carter
Golden Hoofs
Myrt
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Life Begins with Love
Mrs. Murphy
Dangerous Blondes
Mrs. Swanson, Housekeeper (uncredited)
The Go-Getter
Cappy Ricks' Secretary
Quiet Please, Murder
Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron
Variety Time
Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)
Quicksand
Landlady
The Devil's Party
Maria
Men in Her Diary
Mrs. Braun
The Well Groomed Bride
Woman in Ticket Line
Kid Dynamite
Judge
Block Busters
Amelia Rogiet
Something to Shout About
Mrs. Starretton
Ghosts on the Loose
Hilda
Behind the Mike
Mrs. Reilly
Hit the Ice
Wife at Hospital (uncredited)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Take One False Step
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
A Bell for Adano
Italian Woman
The Noose Hangs High
Husky Woman (uncredited)
His Baiting Beauty
Harry's Mother-in-Law
California
Emma (uncredited)
When Strangers Marry
Landlady (uncredited)
Undercover Maisie
Delicatessen Woman (Uncredited)
A Man Alone
Mrs. Maule (uncredited)
Secret Service Investigator
Mrs McGiven
The Dark Corner
Client Wife (uncredited)
Hired Husband
Aunt Jessie
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Heartaches
Charwoman (uncredited)
Sadie McKee
Brennan’s Cook’s Assistant (uncredited)
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Gang Member Posing as Olympics Matron
Music in Manhattan
Mrs. Smith, the Landlady (uncredited)