Una Merkel

All Movies of Una Merkel

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  6.7
  A Tiger Walks
  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 everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sherif...
   1964

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  Summer Magic
   1963

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  7.1
  The Parent Trap
  Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite th
  Character: Verbena

   1961

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  7.4
  Summer and Smoke
  In this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' novel, Alma Winemiller (Geraldine Page) is the fragile, lonely, and oversensitive daughter of a minister in a small Mississippi town shortly before the first World War. From childhood she ...
  Character: Mrs. Winemiller

   1961

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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 back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farme...
   1959

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  The Girl Most Likely
  Dotie 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 development. He proposes and Dotie accepts. Dotie next meets Pete, who she thinks i...
   1958

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  The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
  Laurel Srevens (Jane Russell), a movie star is kidnapped by a pair of amateurs, Mike Valla (Ralph Meeker) and "Dandy" (Keenan Wynn). But their hearts aren't really into their work and they decide to let her go. Laurel, w...
   1957

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  Bundle of Joy
  Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the...
   1956

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  6.2
  The Kentuckian
  A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant
  Character: Sophie Wakefield

   1955

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  7.0
  The Merry Widow
  This third big-screen version of "The Merry Widow" bolsters the story's appeal through the glamorous pairing of Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas. A handsome dignitary from a mythical land courts a wealthy, joyous widow in...
   1952

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  7.0
  With a Song in My Heart
  Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes i...
  Character: Sister Marie

   1952

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  6.7
  Rich, Young and Pretty
  Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with her father, Jim Stauton Rogers (Wendell Corey) -- a cattle baron-turned-politician, Elizabeth Rogers (Powel...
  Character: Glynnie

   1951

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  6.1
  Golden Girl
  Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.
  Character: Mary Ann Crabtree

   1951

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  Emergency Wedding
  A young millionaire, Peter J. Kirk, Jr., fails in all of his attempts to emulate his successful father. He meets and marries Dr. Helen Hunt, who refuses to give up her profession, which also makes Peter feel useless, while becomin...
   1950

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  Kill the Umpire
   1950

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  My Blue Heaven
  Kitty Moran (Betty Grable), a radio star finds out she is pregnant however she miscarries. Kitty and her husband Jack (Dan Dailey) move their show to television and become determined to adopt a baby.
   1950

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  This Is the Army
  In WW I dancer Jerry Jones (George Murphy) stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the or...
  Character: Rose Dibble

   1943

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  The Mad Doctor of Market Street
  A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on the island, sees what...
   1942

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  4.9
  Twin Beds
  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.
   1942

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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 his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men who are trying to sell a fake "robot.
   1941

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  6.0
  Road to Zanzibar
  Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades, they've finally saved enough to return to the USA, when Chuck spends it all on a "lost" diamond...
   1941

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  7.0
  The Bank Dick
   1940

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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 boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "...
   1939

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  Four Girls in White
  Four student nurses cope with life and career problems while interning at a major hospital.
   1939

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  On Borrowed Time
  Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's future and wary of a scheming relative who se...
   1939

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  6.0
  True Confession
  Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evid...
   1937

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

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  6.8
  Saratoga
  Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Though engaged to wealthy Hartley Madison, and disgusted by bookie Duke Bradley, her father owes Bradley a lot of money and Bradley takes a shine to her.
  Character: Fritzi

   1937

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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 work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fam...
   1936

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  Riffraff
  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 and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promis...
   1936

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  We Went to College
  Phil is high strung and needs a rest so Nina talks him into going to the Sutter College homecoming. He takes his wife and Glenn, who was another classmate, to have some fun and get a brick contract. Old dependable Ellery is runnin...
   1936

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  6.6
  Born to Dance
  Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway. Ted rescues the Pekinese of Lucy James, a Broadway star during a publi...
  Character: Jenny Saks

   1936

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  The Night Is Young
  Young Austrian Archduke Paul “Gustl” Gustave is in an arranged engagement to Princess Matilda, but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl continue his fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck. Lisi is not Gusti’s lover, but
   1935

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  Baby Face Harrington
  Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country's toughest gangster and his gang, and he gets suspected of being the leader of the gang. Hiis wife, Millie, files for divo...
   1935

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  Murder in the Fleet
  Captain John Winslow (Arthur Byron) is notified by the Secretary of the Navy that his cruiser will be receiving a new firing control gear manufactured by World Electric company, which is supposed to revolutionize naval warfare. Th...
   1935

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  8.0
  Broadway Melody of 1936
  Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in his new show. Bert Keeler, a paper man, gets this information and is writing about this ...
   1935

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  Biography of a Bachelor Girl
  Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues psuedo-portait artist Marion Forsythe on her arrival from Europe after painting (and possibly being involved with) notables all over the continent. He convinces her to write her b...
   1935

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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 next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to hi...
   1935

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  Have a Heart
  Sally sits by her window earning money for an operation so she can be a dance teacher again. Jimmie is an ice cream salesman hoping to advance. Their romance is sidetracked when she uses her savings to help him in a fix.
   1934

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

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  Murder in the Private Car
  Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed that she is Ruth Carson. As a child, she was kidnaped by her uncle and is the d...
   1934

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  Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
  Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone. He finds none, but he does find a body -...
   1934

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  6.0
  Evelyn Prentice
  Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the...
   1934

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  8.0
  The Merry Widow
  Sonia is an immensely wealthy widow from Marshovia, a small country where she controls half the wealth. The country depends on her spending her money there and when she moves to Paris in the quest to find a husband, the King sends...
   1934

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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. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins an...
   1934

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  7.0
  Midnight Mary
  A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a b...
   1933

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  The Secret of Madame Blanche
  Showgirl Sally meets young playboy Leonard St. John; they fall in love and are secretly married. When Leonard's father discovers this he sets out to break them apart, and following a bitter row, Leonard kills himself, leaving Sall...
   1933

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  6.0
  Reunion in Vienna
   1933

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  5.0
  Bombshell
  Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts, and devious studio publicity honcho Space Hanlon cooking up endless lurid newspaper stori...
   1933

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  7.2
  42nd Street
  A sickly Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) puts his all into what may be his last show, only to face a disaster when leading lady Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) sprains her ankle. Thank heavens for ingenue Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler), who...
  Character: Lorraine Fleming

   1933