What British actress played the mother of singer and comedian Gracie Fields?
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' mother in "This Week of Grace".
Love, Life and Laughter (1934 film) Love, Life and Laughter is a 1934 British comedy drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gracie Fields, John Loder and Ivor Barnard.