Una Merkel
Birthday: 1903-12-10
Place of Birth: Covington, Kentucky, USA
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.
Movies
The Bank Dick
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now co...
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42nd Street
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to r...
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Road to Zanzibar
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring t...
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The Bat Whispers
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after,...
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The Maltese Falcon
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught...
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On Borrowed Time
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are...
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The Cat's-Paw
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. ...
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The Mad Doctor of Market Street
A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders....
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Bundle of Joy
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large de...
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The Mating Game
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his bac...
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This Is the Army
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded i...
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Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the...
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Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....
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Born to Dance
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their r...
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The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country....
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Broadway Melody of 1936
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gord...
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Saratoga
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....
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With a Song in My Heart
Jane Froman, an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross, whom she ...
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I Love Melvin
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress nam...
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The Parent Trap
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later a...
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Midnight Mary
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the...
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Evelyn Prentice
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity....
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The Kettles in the Ozarks
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkans...
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Summer and Smoke
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the ra...
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The Women in His Life
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ...
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat....
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Red-Headed Woman
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair...
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They Call It Sin
A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and th...
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Riffraff
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from hi...
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Don't Tell the Wife
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with inno...
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Private Lives
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Vic...
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The Bride Goes Wild
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg,...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Four Girls in White
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They...
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Rich, Young and Pretty
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love....
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True Confession
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an...
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The Man from Texas
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and th...
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Abraham Lincoln
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining cha...
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The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her fil...
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Some Like It Hot
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's bo...
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Clear All Wires!
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports ...
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It's a Joke, Son!
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a ...
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsy...
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Menu
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion....
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Day of Reckoning
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with hi...
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the m...
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Wicked
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband...
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The Merry Widow
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if t...
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A Millionaire for Christy
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle ...
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Whistling in the Dark
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist the...
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Beauty for Sale
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen...
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Golden Girl
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree work...
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Reunion in Vienna
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now w...
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Huddle
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company...
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Speed
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to...
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The Night Is Young
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor...
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One New York Night
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room ...
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Have a Heart
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when a...
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Daddy Long Legs
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in he...
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Murder in the Private Car
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private d...
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She Wanted a Millionaire
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warn...
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Six Cylinder Love
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for ...
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Summer Magic
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps t...
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We Went to College
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming....
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My Blue Heaven
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a ch...
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Murder in the Fleet
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find t...
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The Girl Most Likely
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however...
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Baby Face Harrington
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the po...
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Men Are Such Fools
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly the...
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Don't Bet on Women
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marria...
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Emergency Wedding
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife ...
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Command Performance
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter...
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Cracked Nuts
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to hi...
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Broadway to Hollywood
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville...
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The Secret Witness
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a s...
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The Greer Case
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue....
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It's in the Air
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants ...
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Kill the Umpire
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctant...
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The Good Old Soak
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction....
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various way...
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A Tiger Walks
A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surroundin...
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Spinout
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving he...
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To Heir Is Human
Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to co...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Twin Beds
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr...
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Quack Service
Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doct...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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Sandy Gets Her Man
A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry....
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Checkers
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's far...
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Comin' Round the Mountain
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on th...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca...
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The Eyes of the World
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by B...
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The Bargain
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake....
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Aladdin
Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television....
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