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.

Filmography

• 1994That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1985That's Dancing! — From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
• 1966Spinout — Violet Ranley
• 1964A Tiger Walks — Mrs. Watkins
• The Cara Williams Show
• Burke's Law — Miss Samantha Cartier, Clara Lovelace, Mrs. Thomas Barrett
• 1963Summer Magic — Mariah Popham
• The Bill Dana Show
• 1961Summer and Smoke — Mrs. Winemiller
• 1961The Parent Trap — Verbena
• 1959The Mating Game — Ma Larkin
• 1958Aladdin — Aladdin's Mother
• 1958The Girl Most Likely — Mother
• DuPont Show of the Month — Aladdin's Mother
• 1957The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown — Bertha
• 1957The Greer Case — Louise Hoagland
• 1956Bundle of Joy — Mrs. Dugan
• 1956The Kettles in the Ozarks — Miss Bedelia Baines
• 1955The Kentuckian — Sophie Wakefield
• Climax! — Maud
• 1953I Love Melvin — Mom Schneider
• Four Star Playhouse — Rose Barton
• 1952The Merry Widow — Kitty Riley
• 1952With a Song in My Heart — Sister Marie
• 1951A Millionaire for Christy — Patsy Clifford
• 1951Golden Girl — Mary Ann Crabtree
• 1951Rich, Young and Pretty — Glynnie
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Secretary
• 1950Emergency Wedding — Emma - Nurse / Receptionist
• 1950Kill the Umpire — Betty Johnson
• 1950My Blue Heaven — Miss Irma Gilbert
• Studio One — Parsis McHugh
• 1948The Bride Goes Wild — Miss Doberly
• 1948The Man from Texas — Widow Weeks
• 1947It's a Joke, Son! — Mrs.Magnolia Claghorn
• 1944Sweethearts of the U.S.A. — Patsy Wilkins
• 1944To Heir Is Human — Una
• 1943Quack Service — Daffy
• 1943This Is the Army — Rose Dibble
• 1942The Mad Doctor of Market Street — Aunt Margaret Wentworth
• 1942Twin Beds — Lydia
• 1941Cracked Nuts — Sharon Knight
• 1941Double Date — Aunt Elsie Kirkland
• 1941Road to Zanzibar — Julia
• 1940Comin' Round the Mountain — Belinda Watters
• 1940Sandy Gets Her Man — Nan Clark
• 1940The Bank Dick — Myrtle Sousé
• 1939Destry Rides Again — Lily Belle
• 1939Four Girls in White — Gertie Robbins
• 1939On Borrowed Time — Marcia Giles
• 1939Some Like It Hot — Flo Saunders
• 1937Checkers — Mamie Appleby
• 1937Don't Tell the Wife — Nancy Dorsey
• 1937Saratoga — Fritzi Kiffmeyer
• 1937The Good Old Soak — Nellie
• 1937True Confession — Daisy McClure
• 1936Born to Dance — Jenny Saks
• 1936Riffraff — Lil
• 1936Speed — Josephine 'Jo' Sanderson
• 1936We Went to College — Susan Standish
• 1935Baby Face Harrington — Millicent
• 1935Biography of a Bachelor Girl — Slade Kinnicott
• 1935Broadway Melody of 1936 — Kitty Corbett
• 1935It's in the Air — Alice Lane Churchill
• 1935Murder in the Fleet — 'Toots' Timmons
• 1935One New York Night — Phoebe
• 1935The Night Is Young — Fanni Kerner
• 1934Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back — Gwen
• 1934Evelyn Prentice — Amy Drexel
• 1934Have a Heart — Joan O'Day
• 1934Murder in the Private Car — Georgia Latham
• 1934Paris Interlude — Cassie
• 1934The Cat's-Paw — Petunia Pratt / Cobb
• 1934The Merry Widow — Queen Dolores
• 1934This Side of Heaven — Birdie
• 193342nd Street — Lorraine Fleming
• 1933Beauty for Sale — Carol Merrick
• 1933Bombshell — Mac
• 1933Broadway to Hollywood — Flirt in Audience
• 1933Clear All Wires! — Dolly Winslow
• 1933Day of Reckoning — Mamie
• 1933Her First Mate — Hattie
• 1933Menu — Mrs. Omsk (uncredited)
• 1933Midnight Mary — Bunny
• 1933Reunion in Vienna — Ilsa Hinrich
• 1933The Secret of Madame Blanche — Ella
• 1933The Women in His Life — Miss 'Simmy' Simmons
• 1933Whistling in the Dark — Toby Van Buren
• 1932Huddle — Coach Malcolm
• 1932Man Wanted — Ruth 'Ruthie' Holman
• 1932Men Are Such Fools — Molly
• 1932Red-Headed Woman — Sally
• 1932She Wanted a Millionaire — Mary Taylor
• 1932The Impatient Maiden — Betty Merrick
• 1932They Call It Sin — Dixie Dare
• 1931Command Performance — Princess Katerina
• 1931Daddy Long Legs — Sally McBride
• 1931Don't Bet on Women — Tallulah Hope
• 1931Private Lives — Sibyl Chase
• 1931Six Cylinder Love — Margaret Rogers
• 1931The Bargain — Etta
• 1931The Maltese Falcon — Effie Perrine
• 1931The Secret Witness — Lois Martin
• 1931Wicked — June
• 1930Abraham Lincoln — Ann Rutledge
• 1930The Bat Whispers — Dale Van Gorder
• 1930The Eyes of the World — Sybil LaGrange

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self (archive footage)
• 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)
• 1938Hollywood Goes to Town — Self