Una Merkel

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.

Known For

Myrtle Sousé

The Bank Dick

Lorraine Fleming

42nd Street

Julia Quimby

Road to Zanzibar

Dale Van Gorder

The Bat Whispers

Effie Perrine

The Maltese Falcon

Marcia Giles

On Borrowed Time

Petunia Pratt / Cobb

The Cat's-Paw

Aunt Margaret Wentworth

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

Mrs. Dugan

Bundle of Joy

Ma Larkin

The Mating Game

Rose Dibble

This Is the Army

Lily Belle

Destry Rides Again

Mac

Bombshell

Jenny Saks

Born to Dance

Queen Dolores

The Merry Widow

Kitty Corbett

Broadway Melody of 1936

Fritzi Kiffmeyer

Saratoga

Sophie Wakefield

The Kentuckian

Sister Marie

With a Song in My Heart

Mom Schneider

I Love Melvin

Verbena

The Parent Trap

Bunny

Midnight Mary

Amy Drexel

Evelyn Prentice

Miss Bedelia Baines

The Kettles in the Ozarks

Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman

Man Wanted

Mrs. Winemiller

Summer and Smoke

Miss 'Simmy' Simmons

The Women in His Life

Ella

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Sally

Red-Headed Woman

Dixie Dare

They Call It Sin

Lil

Riffraff

Nancy Dorsey

Don't Tell the Wife

Sibyl Chase

Private Lives

Miss Doberly

The Bride Goes Wild

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Gertie Robbins

Four Girls in White

Glynnie

Rich, Young and Pretty

Daisy McClure

True Confession

Widow Weeks

The Man from Texas

Ann Rutledge

Abraham Lincoln

Bertha

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

Flo Saunders

Some Like It Hot

Betty Merrick

The Impatient Maiden

Dolly Winslow

Clear All Wires!

Mrs.Magnolia Claghorn

It's a Joke, Son!

Slade Kinnicott

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Mrs. Omsk (uncredited)

Menu

Mamie

Day of Reckoning

Gwen

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

June

Wicked

Kitty Riley

The Merry Widow

Patsy Clifford

A Millionaire for Christy

Toby Van Buren

Whistling in the Dark

Carol Merrick

Beauty for Sale

Mary Ann Crabtree

Golden Girl

Ilsa Hinrich

Reunion in Vienna

Coach Malcolm

Huddle

Josephine 'Jo' Sanderson

Speed

Fanni Kerner

The Night Is Young

Phoebe

One New York Night

Joan O'Day

Have a Heart

Sally McBride

Daddy Long Legs

Birdie

This Side of Heaven

Georgia Latham

Murder in the Private Car

Hattie

Her First Mate

Mary Taylor

She Wanted a Millionaire

Margaret Rogers

Six Cylinder Love

Mariah Popham

Summer Magic

Susan Standish

We Went to College

Miss Irma Gilbert

My Blue Heaven

'Toots' Timmons

Murder in the Fleet

Mother

The Girl Most Likely

Millicent

Baby Face Harrington

Molly

Men Are Such Fools

Tallulah Hope

Don't Bet on Women

Emma - Nurse / Receptionist

Emergency Wedding

Cassie

Paris Interlude

Princess Katerina

Command Performance

Sharon Knight

Cracked Nuts

Flirt in Audience

Broadway to Hollywood

Lois Martin

The Secret Witness

Louise Hoagland

The Greer Case

Alice Lane Churchill

It's in the Air

Betty Johnson

Kill the Umpire

Nellie

The Good Old Soak

Patsy Wilkins

Sweethearts of the U.S.A.

Mrs. Watkins

A Tiger Walks

Violet Ranley

Spinout

Una

To Heir Is Human

(archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

Lydia

Twin Beds

Daffy

Quack Service

Self

Hollywood Goes to Town

Nan Clark

Sandy Gets Her Man

Mamie Appleby

Checkers

Belinda Watters

Comin' Round the Mountain

Self (archive footage)

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)

That's Dancing!

Sybil LaGrange

The Eyes of the World

Etta

The Bargain

Aladdin's Mother

Aladdin

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

101

Gender

Female

Birthday

1903-12-10

Place of Birth

Covington, Kentucky, USA

Also Known As

Una Kohnfelder