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 Una Merkel's Profile |
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1903 - 1986 |
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| Age: | 100 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21) |
| Last Login: | Jul 1, 2008 (103 days back) |
About Me |
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| The tall, lanky Kentucky-born Merkel resembled the popular actress Lillian Gish, and her resemblance allowed her to enter films in 1920, aged only 16, as Gish's double in the film Way Down East.She appeared in several films during the silent era but spent most of her time in New York working on Broadway. She returned to Hollywood and achieved her greatest success with the advent of "talkies".She played Ann Rutledge in the 1930 film Abraham Lincoln and during the 1930s became a popular second lead in a number of films, usually playing the wisecracking best friend of the heroine such as Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Loretta Young, and Dorothy Lamour. One of her most famous roles was in the Western Destry Rides Again (1939) in which her character gets into a physical scrap with Marlene Dietrich's character over the affections of the film's leading man, Jimmy Stewart. She played W.C. Fields' elder daughter in The Bank Dick (1940).Her film career went into decline during the 1940s and although she continued working it was in less prestigious productions. She made a comeback as a middle-aged woman playing mothers and maiden aunts, and in 1956 won a Tony Award for her role on Broadway in The Ponder Heart. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Summer and Smoke (1961). Her final film role was in the Elvis Presley film Spinout (1966).She died in Los Angeles, California, aged 82, of undisclosed causes.Una Merkel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6230 Hollywood Boulevard. |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | Covington, Kentucky |
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Elvis Presley, Lillian & Dorothy Gish, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, James Stewart, Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Glenda Farrell, Humphrey Bogart, Barry Fitzgerald, John Barrymore, Busby Berkeley, Laurence, Mischa Auer as Orson's Don Quijote, Mae Murray, Pat O'Brien, Kay Francis, Lana Turner, Grace Moore, Marlene Dietrich, Mae Clarke, **Marilyn**, Charlie McCarthy, John Wayne, Howard Hughes, Robert Montgomery, Markus Redmond, John Gilbert, Golden Age Of Hollywood, LUCY!!!!, Irene Dunne, Bing Crosby, Corinne Griffith, Bette Davis, Sylvia Sidney, Viola DANA, Nils Asther, Anna May Wong, Mary Nolan, Lou Tellegen, IRVING GRANT THALBERG, rolandgarrett, Lonnie, Betty Boop, Theda Bara, EdaMarie, Bebe, Ivan, Shanendor, Keith, Marie Wilson, The Thibodeaux Sheaux, Kevin, The Dead Guy Interviews, Steve Bray, Leee Black Childers, leee black childers, ‡…WickeD …‡, aaron, Ronald Colman, Kadri, Pink Pink, Modernette, John Payne, Ernest
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