Actor: Una Merkel

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Birthday: 1903-12-10
Born in: Covington, Kentucky, USA
Biography: 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.

Known for

The Parent Trap

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
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The Parent Trap

1961

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42nd Street

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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42nd Street

1933

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Red-Headed Woman

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
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Red-Headed Woman

1932

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The Kentuckian

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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The Kentuckian

1955

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The Merry Widow

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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The Merry Widow

1934

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Bombshell

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Abraham Lincoln

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln

1930

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Huddle

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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Spinout

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
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Destry Rides Again

When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Destry Rides Again

1939

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That's Entertainment! III

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
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That's Entertainment! III

1994

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On Borrowed Time

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
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On Borrowed Time

1939

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