
Doro Merande
Biography
Plain, angular Doro Merande was one of those delightful character actresses you couldn't take your eyes off of, no matter how minuscule the part. She excelled at playing older than she was -- doting aunts, inveterate gossips, curt secretaries and small-minded townspeople -- all topped with an amusing warble in her voice and bristly eccentric edge. Too bad then that she wasn't used more in films, but she preferred live theater and based herself for the most part on the East Coast. She was born Do…
Known For
The Seven Year Itch
Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant (uncredited)
The Front Page
Jennie
The Man with the Golden Arm
Vi
Kiss Me, Stupid
Mrs. Pettibone
The Snake Pit
Asylum Patient (uncredited)
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Muriel Everett
The Gazebo
Matilda
The Cardinal
Picket
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Filmography
Acting (35)
Movies (27)
The Front Page
1974as Jennie
Making It
1971as Librarian
Change of Habit
1969as Rose
Skidoo
1968as The Mayor
Hurry Sundown
1967as Ada Hemmings
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966as Muriel Everett
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964as Mrs. Pettibone
The Cardinal
1963as Picket
The Gazebo
1960as Matilda
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
1959as Miss Haskins
If You Knew Elizabeth
1957as Mrs. Adolph
The Seven Year Itch
1955as Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant (uncredited)
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955as Vi
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
1951as Mrs. Hammer
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
1951as Miss Pringle
Cover Up
1949as Hilda
The Snake Pit
1948as Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Our Town
1940as Mrs. Soames
Bad Boy
1935as Mrs. Jackson
Navy Wife
1935as Nurse Sharpe
Zoo in Budapest
1933as Miss Fennock (uncredited)
Strictly Personal
1933as Club Member
Bondage
1933as Boarding House Matron (uncredited)
Moonlight and Pretzels
1933
State Fair
1933as Mrs. Metcalfe's Acquaintance at Food Contest (Uncredited)
Wayward
1932as Maid (uncredited)
Personal Maid
1931as Mrs. Wurtz's Maid (uncredited)
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