Minnie Rayner
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| Born | 2 May 1869 |
| Died | 13 December 1941 (aged 72) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1903 – 1940 |
Minnie Rayner (2 May 1869 – 13 December 1941) was a British stage and film actress.[1] A character actress, she played working class figures, often mothers, in films of the 1930s. Her roles include the matriarch of the working-class Fulham family who takes in an exiled Russian prince (Ivor Novello) as a lodger in the comedy I Lived with You (1933).[2] The same year she played Gracie Fields's mother in This Week of Grace.[3]
A recurring role was that of the landlady Mrs. Hudson in a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations starring Arthur Wontner.[4]
Her stage work included the part of Clara in the original production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1925.[5] She also appeared in a series of Ivor Novello's plays and musicals in the West End: Symphony in Two Flats (1929), Fresh Fields (1933), Glamorous Night (1935), Careless Rapture (1936), Crest of the Wave (1937), and The Dancing Years (1939).[6] In 1930, she reprised her performance as Mabel in Symphony in Two Flats in the Broadway stage and British film versions.[7][8]
Filmography[]
- The Pickwick Papers (1913)
- My Old Dutch (1915)
- Lost and Won (1915)
- Sunken Rocks (1919)
- The Auction Mart (1920)
- Mary Latimer, Nun (1920)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1921)
- If Youth But Knew (1926)
- The Ring (1927)
- Symphony in Two Flats (1930)
- The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)
- These Charming People (1931)
- The Man at Six (1931)
- Stranglehold (1931)
- Hobson's Choice (1931)
- The Missing Rembrandt (1932)
- The Veteran of Waterloo (1933)
- I Lived with You (1933)
- Excess Baggage (1933)
- This Week of Grace (1933)
- Dora (1933 short)
- Murder at the Inn (1934)
- Song at Eventide (1934)
- Flood Tide (1934)
- Sometimes Good (1934)
- It Happened in Paris (1935)
- Barnacle Bill (1935)
- The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
- The Small Man (1936)
- A Woman Alone (1936)
- The House of the Spaniard (1936)
- If I Were Rich (1936)
- Dreams Come True (1936)
- Silver Blaze (1937)
- Gaslight (1940) as Elizabeth, the Cook
- Old Mother Riley in Society (1940)
References[]
- ^ "Minnie Rayner". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
- ^ "I Lived with You – review - cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online". Radio Times.
- ^ "This Week of Grace (1933) - Maurice Elvey - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "Minnie Rayner - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia". www.arthur-conan-doyle.com.
- ^ "Production of Hay Fever - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Minnie Rayner - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ League, The Broadway. "Symphony in Two Flats – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ https://www.allmovie.com/movie/symphony-in-two-flats-v112532/cast-crew
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