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