Una Merkel (December 10 1903, Covington, Kentucky - January 2 1986, Los Angeles) was a Tony Award winning and Academy Award nominated American film actress. The 5'4" 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 a few films during the silent era but spent most of her time in New York working on Broadway. Wikipedia
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Una Merkel began her movie career as stand-in for Lillian Gish in the movie The Wind (1928). After that, she performed on Broadway before she returned to movies for the D.W. Griffith film Abraham Lincoln (1924/I). In her early years, before gaining a few www.imdb.com/name/nm0580916/
