1936 UNA MERKEL 2
AURELIA SULTAN CIGARETTE CARD LUXUSBILD SERIE No. 106, 136
Una Merkel:
For sale two Aurelia-Sultan movie stars cards of 1936 « Luxusbild serie »
(Luxury Series Cinema stars). Embossed cards issued in German Sultan Cigarettes
package: Cards are from Luxusbild series no 106, 136. Cards measures
approx. 2 1/16" x 2 7/16" (51mm X 62mm). Each card is in full color,
embossed with an individual pattern. Cards are in like new condition (look
scan). No mount damage on back, no creases and very clean. Back with text
written in German.
About Una Merkel: (December 10, 1903 – January 2,
1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress. Merkel
was born in Kentucky and acted on stage in New York in the 1920s. She went to
Hollywood in 1930 and became a popular film actress. Two of her best-known
performances are in the films 42nd
Street and Destry Rides Again.
She won a Tony Award in 1956 and was nominated for an Oscar in 1961. Merkel was
born in Covington, Kentucky. In her early childhood, she lived in many of the Southern
United States due to her father's job as a traveling salesman. At the age of
15, she and her parents moved to Philadelphia. They stayed there a year or so
before settling in New York, where she began attending the Alviene School of
Dramatic Art. Because of her strong resemblance to
actress Lilian Gish, Merkel was offered a part as Gish's youngest sister in a
silent film called World Shadows. However, the funding for the film
dried up and it was never completed. Merkel went on to appear in a few Silent
movies, several of them for the Lee Bradford Corporation. She also appeared in
the Love’s Old Sweet Song (1923),
which was made by Lee-de-Forest in his sound Film. Not making much of a mark in
films, Merkel turned her attention to the theater and found work in several
important plays on Broadway. Invited to Hollywood by famous director D. W. Griffith
to play Ann Rutledge in his film Abraham Lincoln (1930), Merkel
became a big success in sound films. During the 1930s, she became a popular
second lead in a number of films, usually playing the wisecracking best friend
of the heroine, supporting actresses. Merkel was known for her Kewpie-doll looks,
strong Southern accent, and wry line delivery. Merkel was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
contract player from 1932 to 1938, appearing in as many as 12 films in a year,
often on loan-out to other studios. She was also often cast as leading lady
opposite . Her film career went into decline during the 1940s, although she
continued working in smaller productions. In 1950, she starred with William Bendix in the baseball comedy Kill the Umpire, which was a surprise
hit. After, she made a comeback as a middle-aged woman playing mothers and
maiden aunts, and in 1956 Merkel won a Tony Award for her role on Broadway
in The Ponder Heart. Her final film role was opposite Elvis Presley in Spinout (1966). On January 2, 1986,
Merkel died in Los Angeles at the age of 82.
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