Una Merkel
Una Merkel
Although she is best known for her later work, Una Merkel actually started in film in 1920 as Lillian Gish's stand-in for Way Down East. After a stage career in the 1920s, she returned to films as Ann Rutledge in D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930). The vivacious character actress brightened up dozens of films, playing mostly comic roles interspersed with an occasional dramatic part. Films to watch include Dangerous Female (1931); Private Lives (1931); Red-Headed Woman (1932); 42nd Street (1933), the film in which she memorably says of Ginger Rogers' character Anytime Annie: "The only time she ever said no she didn't hear the question;" The Merry Widow (both 1934 and 1952); Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935); Born to Dance (1936); Destry Rides Again (1939), where she and Marlene Dietrich have a frenzied hair-pulling battle over the hapless Mischa Auer; On Borrowed Time (1939); The Bank Dick (1940); Road to Zanzibar (1941); This Is the Army (1943); With a Song in My Heart (1952); and The Parent Trap (1961), among many others. In 1956, she won a Tony Award for The Ponder Heart and in 1961 was nominated for an Academy Award for Summer and Smoke in the role she had originated on the stage. ~ All Movie Guide
Filmography of Una Merkel:
- 42nd Street with Warner Baxter , Bebe Daniels , George Brent , Ruby Keeler , Guy Kibbee , Ginger Rogers , Ned Sparks , Dick Powell , Allen Jenkins , Henry B. Walthall , George E. Stone , Harry Warren , Louise Beavers , George S. Irving , Rolfe Sedan , Harry Seymour , Lyle Talbot , Busby Berkeley , Dave O'Brien
- This Is the Army with George Murphy , Joan Leslie , Ronald W. Reagan , Alan Sr. Hale , George Tobias , Charles Butterworth , Dolores Costello , Stanley Ridges , Rosemary DeCamp , Ruth Donnelly , Frances Langford , Warner Anderson , Irving Berlin , Frank Jr. Coghlan , Richard Crane , John James , Henry Jones , Victor Moore , Arthur Space , Ernest Truex , Doodles Weaver , Gene Nelson
- Spinout with Elvis Presley , Warren Berlinger , Carl Betz , Cecil Kellaway
Una Merkel Trivia
