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.
The Bank Dick
Myrtle Sousé
42nd Street
Lorraine Fleming
Road to Zanzibar
Julia Quimby
The Bat Whispers
Dale Van Gorder
The Maltese Falcon
Effie Perrine
On Borrowed Time
Marcia Giles
The Cat's-Paw
Petunia Pratt / Cobb
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Aunt Margaret Wentworth
Bundle of Joy
Mrs. Dugan
The Mating Game
Ma Larkin
This Is the Army
Rose Dibble
Bombshell
Mac
Destry Rides Again
Lily Belle
Born to Dance
Jenny Saks
The Merry Widow
Queen Dolores
Broadway Melody of 1936
Kitty Corbett
Saratoga
Fritzi Kiffmeyer
The Kentuckian
Sophie Wakefield
With a Song in My Heart
Sister Marie
I Love Melvin
Mom Schneider
The Parent Trap
Verbena
Midnight Mary
Bunny
Evelyn Prentice
Amy Drexel
The Kettles in the Ozarks
Miss Bedelia Baines
Man Wanted
Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman
The Women in His Life
Miss 'Simmy' Simmons
Summer and Smoke
Mrs. Winemiller
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Ella
Red-Headed Woman
Sally
They Call It Sin
Dixie Dare
Riffraff
Lil
Don't Tell the Wife
Nancy Dorsey
Private Lives
Sibyl Chase
The Bride Goes Wild
Miss Doberly
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Four Girls in White
Gertie Robbins
Rich, Young and Pretty
Glynnie
True Confession
Daisy McClure
The Man from Texas
Widow Weeks
Abraham Lincoln
Ann Rutledge
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Bertha
Some Like It Hot
Flo Saunders
The Impatient Maiden
Betty Merrick
Clear All Wires!
Dolly Winslow
It's a Joke, Son!
Mrs.Magnolia Claghorn
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Slade Kinnicott
Menu
Mrs. Omsk (uncredited)
Day of Reckoning
Mamie
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Gwen
Wicked
June
The Merry Widow
Kitty Riley
A Millionaire for Christy
Patsy Clifford
Whistling in the Dark
Toby Van Buren
Beauty for Sale
Carol Merrick
Golden Girl
Mary Ann Crabtree
Reunion in Vienna
Ilsa Hinrich
Huddle
Coach Malcolm
Speed
Josephine 'Jo' Sanderson
The Night Is Young
Fanni Kerner
One New York Night
Phoebe
Have a Heart
Joan O'Day
Daddy Long Legs
Sally McBride
This Side of Heaven
Birdie
Murder in the Private Car
Georgia Latham
Her First Mate
Hattie
Six Cylinder Love
Margaret Rogers
She Wanted a Millionaire
Mary Taylor
Summer Magic
Mariah Popham
My Blue Heaven
Miss Irma Gilbert
Murder in the Fleet
'Toots' Timmons
The Girl Most Likely
Mother
Baby Face Harrington
Millicent
Men Are Such Fools
Molly
Don't Bet on Women
Tallulah Hope
Emergency Wedding
Emma - Nurse / Receptionist
Paris Interlude
Cassie
Command Performance
Princess Katerina
Cracked Nuts
Sharon Knight
Broadway to Hollywood
Flirt in Audience
The Secret Witness
Lois Martin
The Greer Case
Louise Hoagland
It's in the Air
Alice Lane Churchill
Kill the Umpire
Betty Johnson
The Good Old Soak
Nellie
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Patsy Wilkins
A Tiger Walks
Mrs. Watkins
Spinout
Violet Ranley
To Heir Is Human
Una
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Twin Beds
Lydia
Checkers
Mamie Appleby
Sandy Gets Her Man
Nan Clark
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
Comin' Round the Mountain
Belinda Watters
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
That's Dancing!
From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
The Eyes of the World
Sybil LaGrange
The Bargain
Etta
Aladdin
Aladdin's Mother