Una Merkel
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.
Born: December 10, 1903
Place of Birth: Covington, Kentucky, USA
Known For
The Impatient Maiden
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
On Borrowed Time
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 and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Some Like It Hot
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, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
The Kettles in the Ozarks
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 bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
The Parent Trap
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 parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
Beauty for Sale
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 affairs.
Have a Heart
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 magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
This Side of Heaven
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Violet Ranley
as Mrs. Watkins
as Miss Samantha Cartier
as Clara Lovelace
as Mrs. Thomas Barrett
as Mariah Popham
as Mrs. Winemiller
as Verbena
as Ma Larkin
as Aladdin's Mother
as Mother
as Aladdin's Mother
as Bertha
as Louise Hoagland
as Mrs. Dugan
as Miss Bedelia Baines
as Sophie Wakefield
as Maud
as Mom Schneider
as Kitty Riley
as Sister Marie
as Mary Ann Crabtree
as Secretary
as Patsy Clifford
as Glynnie
as Emma - Nurse / Receptionist
as Miss Irma Gilbert
as Betty Johnson
as Parsis McHugh
as Widow Weeks
as Miss Doberly
as Mrs.Magnolia Claghorn
as Patsy Wilkins
as Una
as Rose Dibble
as Lydia
as Aunt Margaret Wentworth
as Sharon Knight
as Julia Quimby
as Myrtle Sousé
as Nan Clark
as Belinda Watters
as Lily Belle
as Marcia Giles
as Flo Saunders
as Gertie Robbins
as Self
as Daisy McClure
as Mamie Appleby
as Fritzi Kiffmeyer
as Nellie
as Nancy Dorsey
as Jenny Saks
as Josephine 'Jo' Sanderson
as Lil
as Alice Lane Churchill
as Kitty Corbett
as 'Toots' Timmons
as Millicent
as Phoebe
as Fanni Kerner
as Slade Kinnicott
as Amy Drexel
as Queen Dolores
as Joan O'Day
as Petunia Pratt / Cobb
as Cassie
as Georgia Latham
as Birdie
as Miss 'Simmy' Simmons
as Mamie
as Mac
as Mrs. Omsk (uncredited)
as Flirt in Audience
as Carol Merrick
as Hattie
as Bunny
as Ilsa Hinrich
as Lorraine Fleming
as Dolly Winslow
as Ella
as Toby Van Buren
as Molly
as Dixie Dare
as Sally
as Coach Malcolm
as Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman
as Betty Merrick
as Mary Taylor
as Sibyl Chase
as Lois Martin
as June
as Etta
as Sally McBride
as Effie Perrine
as Margaret Rogers
as Tallulah Hope
as Princess Katerina
as Dale Van Gorder
as Ann Rutledge
as Sybil LaGrange