Una Merkel
Born: 1903-12-10 in Covington, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1986-01-02
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1985
- That's Dancing! as From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1966
- Spinout as Violet Ranley
1964
- The Cara Williams Show
- A Tiger Walks as Mrs. Watkins
1963
- Burke's Law as Miss Samantha Cartier
- The Bill Dana Show
- Summer Magic as Mariah Popham
1961
- The Parent Trap as Verbena
- Summer and Smoke as Mrs. Winemiller
1959
- The Mating Game as Ma Larkin
1958
- Aladdin as Aladdin's Mother
- The Girl Most Likely as Mother
1957
- DuPont Show of the Month as Aladdin's Mother
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown as Bertha
- The Greer Case as Louise Hoagland
1956
- Bundle of Joy as Mrs. Dugan
- The Kettles in the Ozarks as Miss Bedelia Baines
1955
- The Kentuckian as Sophie Wakefield
1954
- Climax! as Maud
1953
- I Love Melvin as Mom Schneider
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Rose Barton
- With a Song in My Heart as Sister Marie
- The Merry Widow as Kitty Riley
1951
- Golden Girl as Mary Ann Crabtree
- A Millionaire for Christy as Patsy Clifford
- Rich, Young and Pretty as Glynnie
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Secretary
1950
- Emergency Wedding as Emma - Nurse / Receptionist
- My Blue Heaven as Miss Irma Gilbert
- Kill the Umpire as Betty Johnson
1948
- Studio One as Parsis McHugh
- The Man from Texas as Widow Weeks
- The Bride Goes Wild as Miss Doberly
1947
- It's a Joke, Son! as Mrs.Magnolia Claghorn
1944
- Sweethearts of the U.S.A. as Patsy Wilkins
- To Heir Is Human as Una
1943
- This Is the Army as Rose Dibble
- Quack Service as Daffy
1942
- The Mad Doctor of Market Street as Aunt Margaret Wentworth
- Twin Beds as Lydia
1941
- Cracked Nuts as Sharon Knight
- Road to Zanzibar as Julia Quimby
1940
- Sandy Gets Her Man as Nan Clark
- The Bank Dick as Myrtle Sousé
- Comin' Round the Mountain as Belinda Watters
1939
- Four Girls in White as Gertie Robbins
- On Borrowed Time as Marcia Giles
- Destry Rides Again as Lily Belle
- Some Like It Hot as Flo Saunders
1938
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
1937
- True Confession as Daisy McClure
- Checkers as Mamie Appleby
- The Good Old Soak as Nellie
- Don't Tell the Wife as Nancy Dorsey
- Saratoga as Fritzi Kiffmeyer
1936
- Speed as Josephine 'Jo' Sanderson
- Riffraff as Lil
- We Went to College as Susan Standish
- Born to Dance as Jenny Saks
1935
- Broadway Melody of 1936 as Kitty Corbett
- Murder in the Fleet as 'Toots' Timmons
- It's in the Air as Alice Lane Churchill
- One New York Night as Phoebe
- Biography of a Bachelor Girl as Slade Kinnicott
- The Night Is Young as Fanni Kerner
- Baby Face Harrington as Millicent
1934
- The Merry Widow as Queen Dolores
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back as Gwen
- Evelyn Prentice as Amy Drexel
- This Side of Heaven as Birdie
- Murder in the Private Car as Georgia Latham
- Have a Heart as Joan O'Day
- The Cat's-Paw as Petunia Pratt / Cobb
- Paris Interlude as Cassie
1933
- 42nd Street as Lorraine Fleming
- Bombshell as Mac
- Midnight Mary as Bunny
- The Secret of Madame Blanche as Ella
- Broadway to Hollywood as Flirt in Audience
- Day of Reckoning as Mamie
- Whistling in the Dark as Toby Van Buren
- The Women in His Life as Miss 'Simmy' Simmons
- Reunion in Vienna as Ilsa Hinrich
- Her First Mate as Hattie
- Beauty for Sale as Carol Merrick
- Menu as Mrs. Omsk (uncredited)
- Clear All Wires! as Dolly Winslow
1932
- Red-Headed Woman as Sally
- Huddle as Coach Malcolm
- Man Wanted as Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman
- She Wanted a Millionaire as Mary Taylor
- They Call It Sin as Dixie Dare
- The Impatient Maiden as Betty Merrick
- Men Are Such Fools as Molly
1931
- Wicked as June
- The Bargain as Etta
- Daddy Long Legs as Sally McBride
- The Maltese Falcon as Effie Perrine
- Private Lives as Sibyl Chase
- Six Cylinder Love as Margaret Rogers
- The Secret Witness as Lois Martin
- Don't Bet on Women as Tallulah Hope
- Command Performance as Princess Katerina
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as Ann Rutledge
- The Bat Whispers as Dale Van Gorder
- The Eyes of the World as Sybil LaGrange