Biography: Minerva Urecal |
Actress Minerva Urecal claimed that her last name was an amalgam of her family home town of Eureka, California. True or not, Urecal would spend the balance of her life in California, specifically Hollywood. Making the transition from stage to screen... more
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Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick (1952)
Cast: Alan Young Dinah Shore Fritz Feld George Seaton
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Romance Musical
Length: 95min
Except for a few later guest-star spots, Dinah Shore ended her film career with Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick. Based on an old stock-company perennial by Walter Benjamin Hare, the film stars Dinah as Josie, a farm gal who is slickered out of her life...
Cast: Desi Arnaz Ann Doran Jean Yarbrough
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Romance Musical Comedy
Length: 73min
Desi Arnaz's bandleader career was in decline when he starred in Columbia's Holiday in Havana. Arnaz essays the difficult role of a Cuban bandleader, named not Ricky Ricardo but Carlos Estrada. His romantic vis-a-vis isn't Lucille McGillicudy but a...
Cast: Rex Allen Gordon Jones
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 57min
Marking the screen debut of Rex Allen, the last of the Singing Cowboys, The Arizona Cowboy featured a mildly entertaining though hardly innovative story of a rodeo cowboy who learns that his father (John Elliott) is falsely accused of stealing 50,000...
Cast: William Beaudine Wallace Ford Karl Brown
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 64min
Whatever poor Bela Lugosi may have done in a past life, the man did not deserve The Ape Man, arguably the worst of his Monogram horror clunkers. Viewed today, it seems that screenwriter Barney Sarecky and infamous director William Beaudine (whose...
Cast: Bela Lugosi Minerva Urecal
Tags: Horror Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 64min
Despite the typical Monogram drawbacks -- murky photography, stolid staging, ramshackle sets -- The Corpse Vanishes remains one of the more deliciously outrageous horror exercises of the 1940s. Bela Lugosi, as hammy as ever, stars as Dr. Lorenz, a...
The Sagebrush Family Trails West (1940)
Length: 62min
The Sagebrush Family Trails West was the first attempt by Producer's Distributing Corporation (later known as PRC Pictures) to create a western series of its own. Heading the cast is Bobby Clark-not the celebrated Broadway comedian, but a trick roper...
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