Southerner Una Merkel was a popular American stage, screen, and television actress. In movies, while often cast as the female lead, she more typically appeared in prominent supporting roles.
Una Merkel Biography / Wiki
| Name | Una Merkel |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Covington, Kentucky, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1903-12-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 82 |
| Deathday | 1986-01-02 |
Una Merkel Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Secret Witness | Lois Martin | 1931-12-31 | A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim’s downstairs neighbor belie… |
| Sweethearts of the U.S.A. | Patsy Wilkins | 1944-03-07 | A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime…. |
| To Heir Is Human | Una | 1944-01-14 | Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance…. |
| Quack Service | Daffy | 1943-09-03 | Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doctor…. |
| The Eyes of the World | Sybil LaGrange | 1930-08-30 | The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film star… |
| The Cat’s-Paw | Petunia Pratt / Cobb | 1934-08-07 | Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as… |
| The Mad Doctor of Market Street | Aunt Margaret Wentworth | 1942-02-27 | A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders…. |
| The Women in His Life | Miss ‘Simmy’ Simmons | 1933-12-08 | An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him…. |
| Don’t Tell the Wife | Nancy Dorsey | 1937-03-05 | After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies–along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee–to help him sell worthless … |
| Four Girls in White | Gertie Robbins | 1939-01-27 | Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse…. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Ann Rutledge | 1930-08-25 | A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln’s life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early ye… |
| It’s a Joke, Son! | Mrs.Magnolia Claghorn | 1947-01-15 | Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merke… |
| Whistling in the Dark | Toby Van Buren | 1933-01-21 | A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime…. |
| Murder in the Private Car | Georgia | 1934-06-29 | Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed… |
| We Went to College | Susan Standish | 1936-06-19 | Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming…. |
| Baby Face Harrington | Millicent Harrington | 1935-04-12 | Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as “Public Enemy No…. |
| One New York Night | Phoebe | 1935-03-08 | Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, a… |
| Command Performance | Princess Katerina | 1931-01-19 | Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance t… |
| Cracked Nuts | Sharon Knight | 1941-07-02 | A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked att… |
| Kill the Umpire | Betty Johnson | 1950-04-27 | Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Ev… |
| The Good Old Soak | Nellie | 1937-04-23 | A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction…. |
| Menu | Mrs. Omsk (uncredited) | 1933-09-23 | A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion…. |
| Comin’ Round the Mountain | 1940-08-16 | A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio…. | |
| The Bank Dick | Myrtle Sousé | 1940-11-29 | Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he’s occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank g… |
| The Bat Whispers | Dale Van Gorder | 1930-11-13 | Infamous burglar “The Bat” commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the… |
| I Love Melvin | Mom Schneider | 1953-03-20 | Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and … |
| Evelyn Prentice | Amy Drexel | 1934-11-09 | A criminal lawyer’s wife faces blackmail when she has an affair…. |
| The Kettles in the Ozarks | Miss Bedelia Baines | 1956-04-01 | Ma and the kids head out to help Pa’s brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootlegger… |
| They Call It Sin | Dixie Dare | 1932-11-05 | An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a cr… |
| Man Wanted | Ruth ‘Ruthie’ Holman | 1932-04-23 | A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary…. |
| Riffraff | Lil | 1936-01-03 | Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him an… |
| Some Like It Hot | Flo Saunders | 1939-05-19 | Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggl… |
| Clear All Wires! | Dolly Winslow | 1933-02-24 | Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being r… |
| The Impatient Maiden | Betty Merrick | 1932-03-01 | A maid’s dream comes true but are not quite what she expected…. |
| Wicked | June | 1931-10-04 | Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband…. |
| The Merry Widow | Kitty Riley | 1952-09-05 | Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Mars… |
| Huddle | Coach Malcolm | 1932-05-14 | Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale … |
| Speed | Josephine ‘Jo’ Sanderson | 1936-05-08 | Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane… |
| Have a Heart | Joan O’Day | 1934-09-07 | Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanim… |
| Daddy Long Legs | Sally McBride | 1931-06-05 | Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds h… |
| Her First Mate | Hattie | 1933-08-03 | A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas…. |
| She Wanted a Millionaire | Mary Taylor | 1932-02-21 | Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to … |
| Men Are Such Fools | Molly | 1932-11-19 | An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is… |
| It’s in the Air | Alice Lane Churchill | 1935-10-10 | Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, bu… |
| Twin Beds | Lydia | 1942-04-30 | Twin Beds (1942) is a film distributed by United Artists, directed by Tim Whelan, and starring by George Brent and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was wr… |
| Checkers | Mamie Appleby | 1937-12-08 | A clever veterinarian repairs a horse’s leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man’s farm…. |
| Sandy Gets Her Man | Nan Clark | 1940-11-08 | A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry…. |
| Road to Zanzibar | Julia Quimby | 1941-04-11 | Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women…. |
| The Maltese Falcon | Effie Perrine | 1931-05-28 | A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette kno… |
| On Borrowed Time | Marcia Giles | 1939-07-07 | Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud’s future… |
| The Merry Widow | Queen Dolores | 1934-11-02 | A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country…. |
| Born to Dance | Jenny Saks | 1936-11-27 | Ted meets and falls in love with Nora Paige, an aspiring Broadway dancer who tries out for a show starring Lucy James. After Ted rescues Lucy’s pet do… |
| Broadway Melody of 1936 | Kitty Corbett | 1935-09-18 | Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her–and her talent. Gordon is t… |
| Summer and Smoke | Mrs. Winemiller | 1961-11-16 | In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door…. |
| The Secret of Madame Blanche | Ella | 1933-02-03 | A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat…. |
| Private Lives | Sibyl Chase | 1931-12-12 | Amanda and Elyot are one another’s former spouse. Elyot remarries to Sibyl, Amanda weds Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive to a ho… |
| True Confession | Daisy McClure | 1937-12-24 | A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn’t bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she … |
| Man from Texas | Widow Weeks | 1948-03-06 | James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the “El Paso Kid,” and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suff… |
| Day of Reckoning | Mamie | 1933-10-26 | In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-r… |
| Beauty for Sale | Carol Merrick | 1933-09-01 | A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of … |
| Reunion in Vienna | Ilsa Hinrich | 1933-06-16 | An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan)…. |
| The Night Is Young | Fanni Kerner | 1935-01-11 | Young Austrian Archduke Paul “Gustl” Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with balle… |
| This Side of Heaven | Birdie | 1934-02-02 | A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement…. |
| Murder in the Fleet | ‘Toots’ Timmons | 1935-05-24 | A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te… |
| Emergency Wedding | Emma – Nurse / Receptionist | 1950-11-15 | Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. … |
| Paris Interlude | Cassie | 1934-07-27 | Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro…… |
| The Mating Game | Ma Larkin | 1959-04-29 | Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins’ farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn’t paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to … |
| The Parent Trap | Verbena | 1961-05-13 | Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents’ divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their … |
| Midnight Mary | Bunny ‘Bun’ | 1933-06-30 | A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager — a mistaken arrest and prison term f… |
| Red-Headed Woman | Sally | 1932-06-25 | Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force so… |
| The Bride Goes Wild | Miss Doberly | 1948-03-03 | McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and ha… |
| The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown | Bertha | 1957-05-09 | When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it’s a publicity stunt. It’s not…. |
| Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Slade Kinnicott | 1935-01-04 | Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeki… |
| Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back | Gwen | 1934-08-15 | Dashing British sleuth Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious Lo… |
| A Millionaire for Christy | Patsy Clifford | 1951-09-02 | Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who’s i… |
| Golden Girl | Mary Ann Crabtree | 1951-11-01 | Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popul… |
| Six Cylinder Love | Margaret Rogers | 1931-05-10 | Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides…. |
| Don’t Bet on Women | Tallulah Hope | 1931-02-15 | At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core – this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs – talks to Herbert … |
| 42nd Street | Lorraine Fleming | 1933-03-11 | A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star…. |
| Bundle of Joy | Mrs. Dugan | 1956-12-12 | Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss’ so… |
| Bombshell | Mac | 1933-10-13 | A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on…. |
| Saratoga | Fritzi Kiffmeyer | 1937-07-23 | A horse breeder’s granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y…. |
| Summer Magic | Mariah Popham | 1963-07-07 | Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down o… |
| My Blue Heaven | Miss Irma Gilbert | 1950-09-15 | Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she’s pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on e… |
| The Girl Most Likely | Mother | 1958-02-05 | Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live ‘the life’. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing de… |
| A Tiger Walks | Mrs. Watkins | 1964-04-12 | A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and eve… |
| This Is the Army | Rose Dibble | 1943-08-14 | In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son… |
| With a Song in My Heart | Sister Marie | 1952-04-03 | Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane’… |
| The Kentuckian | Sophie Wakefield | 1955-07-22 | A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas…. |
| Rich, Young and Pretty | Glynnie | 1951-07-09 | A rancher’s daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love…. |
| The Bargain | Etta | 1931-09-05 | A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake…. |
| Cole Porter’s Aladdin | Aladdin’s Mother | 1958-02-21 | Cole Porter’s version of the story of Aladdin–his only musical written especially for television…. |
| Destry Rides Again | Lily Belle | 1939-11-30 | When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job…. |
| Spinout | Violet Ranley | 1966-10-06 | Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father’s car in a prestigious race…. |
| Hollywood Goes to Town | 1938-07-07 | This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an “important” movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h… | |
| Broadway to Hollywood | Flirt in Audience | 1933-09-15 | In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son…. |
| That’s Dancing! | 1985-01-01 | A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it’s orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30… | |
| That’s Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 | Some of MGM’S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G… |
| James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 | Documentary about James Stewart’s long career as an actor and positive personal life…. |
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