1. Minerva Urecal later formed her stage name by combining letters from the names of her hometown and state.
12 Facts About Minerva Urecal
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Minerva Urecal played largely uncredited roles such as secretaries, laundresses and frontierswomen.
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Minerva Urecal began working in television in the 1950s, favoring Westerns.
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From 1932 to 1937, Minerva Urecal portrayed Mrs Pasquale on the Sunday Night Hi-Jinks radio program.
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Minerva Urecal guest-starred on CBS's My Friend Flicka, The Roy Rogers Show, The Lone Ranger, and the syndicated The Range Rider.
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Minerva Urecal played Billie the Barber in the 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger as "Billie the Great".
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In 1957, Minerva Urecal had her only starring television role on the syndicated The Adventures of Tugboat Annie, playing the title character originally performed by Marie Dressler in the film Tugboat Annie in 1933 and continued by Marjorie Rambeau and Jane Darwell in two movie sequels.
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Later, in 1957, Minerva Urecal appeared as a landlady in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse".
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In 1959, Minerva Urecal replaced actress Hope Emerson as nightclub owner "Mother" for season 2 of the private detective series Peter Gunn.
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Minerva Urecal appeared on the Walter Brennan ABC sitcom The Real McCoys in the series 1960 episode "The Gigolo" and in the Western series Whispering Smith in the episode "Swift Justice".
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Minerva Urecal was cast as a maid in the 1961 episode "Call Me Mother" of the CBS sitcom Angel, starring Annie Farge.
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Minerva Urecal died in 1966 from a heart attack in Glendale, California, aged 71.