Una Merkel
Popularity:0.46
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1903-12-10
Place of Birth:Covington, Kentucky, USA
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Also Known As:Una Kohnfelder

The Bank Dick (1940)
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

42nd Street (1933)
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

The Bat Whispers (1930)
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of...

The Maltese Falcon (1931)
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette...

On Borrowed Time (1939)
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...

The Cat's-Paw (1934)
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor...

The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.

Bundle of Joy (1956)
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss'...

The Mating Game (1959)
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to...

This Is the Army (1943)
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

Bombshell (1933)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Destry Rides Again (1939)
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he...

Born to Dance (1936)
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established...

The Merry Widow (1934)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is...

Saratoga (1937)
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The Kentuckian (1955)
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

With a Song in My Heart (1952)
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries....

I Love Melvin (1953)
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and...

The Parent Trap (1961)
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...

Midnight Mary (1933)
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

Evelyn Prentice (1934)
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.

The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
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...

Man Wanted (1932)
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

The Women in His Life (1933)
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

Summer and Smoke (1961)
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

They Call It Sin (1932)
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

Riffraff (1936)
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him...

Don't Tell the Wife (1937)
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless...

Private Lives (1931)
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples...

The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and...

Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Four Girls in White (1939)
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.

Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

True Confession (1937)
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...

The Man from Texas (1948)
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his...

Abraham Lincoln (1930)
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early...

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)
When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone...

Some Like It Hot (1939)
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,...

The Impatient Maiden (1932)
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

Clear All Wires! (1933)
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being...

It's a Joke, Son! (1947)
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una...

Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe,...

Menu (1933)
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

Day of Reckoning (1933)
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a...

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....

Wicked (1931)
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

The Merry Widow (1952)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a...

A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's...

Whistling in the Dark (1933)
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

Beauty for Sale (1933)
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...

Golden Girl (1951)
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more...

Reunion in Vienna (1933)
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Huddle (1932)
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

Speed (1936)
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want...

The Night Is Young (1935)
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...

One New York Night (1935)
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair,...

Have a Heart (1934)
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...

Daddy Long Legs (1931)
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds...

This Side of Heaven (1934)
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

Murder in the Private Car (1934)
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the...

Her First Mate (1933)
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.

Six Cylinder Love (1931)
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to...

Summer Magic (1963)
Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it...

We Went to College (1936)
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.

My Blue Heaven (1950)
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on...

Murder in the Fleet (1935)
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of...

The Girl Most Likely (1958)
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing...

Baby Face Harrington (1935)
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy...

Men Are Such Fools (1932)
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife...

Don't Bet on Women (1931)
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert...

Emergency Wedding (1950)
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients....

Paris Interlude (1934)
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

Command Performance (1931)
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance...

Cracked Nuts (1941)
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked...

Broadway to Hollywood (1933)
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

The Secret Witness (1931)
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor...

The Greer Case (1957)
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

It's in the Air (1935)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...

Kill the Umpire (1950)
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah...

The Good Old Soak (1937)
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

A Tiger Walks (1964)
A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and...

Spinout (1966)
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

To Heir Is Human (1944)
Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.

That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Twin Beds (1942)
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Quack Service (1943)
Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doctor.

Checkers (1937)
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

Sandy Gets Her Man (1940)
A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.

Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

Comin' Round the Mountain (1940)
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

That's Dancing! (1985)
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

The Eyes of the World (1930)
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film...

The Bargain (1931)
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

Aladdin (1958)
Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television.

Burke's Law (1963)
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as...

Studio One (1948)
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
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Climax! (1954)
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The Bill Dana Show (1963)
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The Cara Williams Show (1964)
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Burke's Law (1963)
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Four Star Playhouse (1952)
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Burke's Law (1963)
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DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
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