Minnie Rayner
Minnie Rayner (2 May 1869 – 13 December 1941) was a British stage and film actress. 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). The same year she played Gracie Fields's mother in "This Week of Grace".

A recurring role was that of the landlady Mrs. Hudson in a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations starring Arthur Wontner.

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. 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). In 1930, she reprised her performance as Mabel in "Symphony in Two Flats" in the Broadway stage and British film versions.
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