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.
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
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
101
Gender
Female
Birthday
1903-12-10
Place of Birth
Covington, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
Una Kohnfelder