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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. D 164. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Mitzi Gaynor, Dennis Day and Una Merkel in Golden Girl (Lloyd Bacon, 1951).
Una Merkel (1903–1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress.
Una Merkel was born the daughter of a merchant and grew up in various locations in the southern states. In New York, she attended the Alviene School of Dramatic Art. In Hollywood, she worked in the 1920s as a double for Lillian Gish on some silent films. However, she did not stay for long but went to New York City to play at the Broadway Theater. There she gave in February 1923 her debut with Two by Two in. A triumph she had in Coquette (1927), which starred her idol, Helen Hayes. In 1930, the success of Girl Crazy confirmed her reputation. Merkel did not return to Hollywood until 1930 when she starred in the role of Ann Rutledge in David Wark Griffith's biopic Abraham Lincoln. In the following years, Merkel relied mainly on numerous, mostly comical supporting roles. Often she was the wisecracking best friend of the heroine. One of the most famous appearances she had was in the 1939 comedy western Destry Rides Again, in which she delivers a 'catfight' with Marlene Dietrich. In addition, she played, among others, Sam Spade's secretary Effie in the first film version of The Maltese Falcon (1931), the streetwise choir singer Lorraine, a buddy of Ginger Rogers, in the Busby Berkeley musical film The 42nd Street (1933), and the eldest daughter of W. C. Fields in the comedy The Bank Detective (1940).
In the 1940s, Una Merkel had to settle for roles in mostly second-rate films. However, the surprise success of the comedy Kill the Umpire (1950) on the side of William Bendix then gave her back roles in major films, where she played mostly mothers or housekeepers. From the 1950s, Merkel turned back to the stage, especially with The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty, which was again a success and was awarded the Tony Award. In 1962 she received an Oscar nomination for her role in Summer and Smoke by Peter Glenville. Her last movie Spinout was with Elvis Presley in 1966. Then she retired to private life. From 1932 until the divorce in 1947 Merkel was married to Ronald L. Burla, and the couple had no children. For her filmmaking, Una Merkel was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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“Melody Time” is made up of seven classic stories set to popular and folk music. Often described as the pop music version of “Fantasia,” the seven “mini-musical’ stories are:
ONCE UPON A WINTERTIME – Frances Langford sings a song about two young lovers, Jenny and Joe. Joe shows off on the ice for Jenny, and near-tragedy and a timely rescue ensues.
BUMBLE BOOGIE – A bumblebee tries to ward off a visual and musical frenzy, accompanied by a swing-jazz variation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee.”
THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY APPLESEED – A retelling of the story of John Chapman who spent most of his life roaming the midwestern United States and planting apple trees.
LITTLE TOOT – The story of Little Toot, a small tugboat who wanted to be just like his father Big Toot, but couldn’t seem to stay out of trouble.
TREES – A recitation of Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Trees,” featuring music by Oscar Rasbach and performed by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. The accompanying animation shows bucolic scenes changing with the seasons.
BLAME IT ON THE SAMBA – Donald Duck and José Carioca meet the Aracuan Bird, who introduces them to the pleasures of the samba.
PECOS BILL – A retelling of the tale of Pecos Bill who, raised by coyotes, became the biggest and best cowboy that ever lived and could out-hiss a rattlesnake. The retelling features Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan, Trigger and the Sons of the Pioneers, who tell the tale to Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten in a live-action frame story.
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Supervised by Ben Sharpsteen
Cartoon sequences directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney and Hamilton Luske
Directed by Richard Sale
Note: The animated sequences in this film were made by UPA (United Productions of America), famous for the Gerald McBoing Boing/Mr. Magoo shorts among others.
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78 rpm record with Dennis Day and Ilene Woods. Learn lots more about it at the Filmic Light blog: filmic-light.blogspot.com/2013/06/ilene-woods-as-snow-whi...
Bearded dude calls his ox "Babe". That is all I am going to say on the matter.
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