Minnie Rayner

Minnie Rayner

Movies for Minnie Rayner...

Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Elizabeth
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
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Old Mother Riley in Society
Title: Old Mother Riley in Society
Character: Hotel Washer-Up
Released: July 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
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Silver Blaze
Title: Silver Blaze
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
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Dreams Come True
Title: Dreams Come True
Character: Dresser
Released: December 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!
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The House of the Spaniard
Title: The House of the Spaniard
Character: Mrs. Blossom
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
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It Happened in Paris
Title: It Happened in Paris
Character: Concierge
Released: June 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: March 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
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Barnacle Bill
Title: Barnacle Bill
Character: Mrs. Bailey
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A conflicted sailor tries to balance his family life with his time at sea.
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Flood Tide
Title: Flood Tide
Character: Sarah Salter
Released: November 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple.
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This Week of Grace
Title: This Week of Grace
Character: Mrs. Milroy
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
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Dora
Title: Dora
Character: Customer
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
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I Lived with You
Title: I Lived with You
Character: Mrs. Wallis
Released: June 13, 1933
Type: Movie
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: The Cook
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Missing Rembrandt
Title: The Missing Rembrandt
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
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Stranglehold
Title: Stranglehold
Character: Cook
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
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The Man at Six
Title: The Man at Six
Character: Mrs. Cummerpatch
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
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The Sleeping Cardinal
Title: The Sleeping Cardinal
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: February 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
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Symphony in Two Flats
Title: Symphony in Two Flats
Character: Mabel
Released: July 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.