Aline MacMahon

Aline MacMahon

Birthday: 1899-05-03

Place of Birth: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: Aline MacMahon was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She worked extensively from 1921, when she began appearing on Broadway, until her full retirement from acting in 1975. MacMahon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1944 film Dragon Seed.

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Seeds of Freedom
Seeds of Freedom

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combine...

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Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to...

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The Flame and the Arrow
The Flame and the Arrow

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as th...

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Out of the Fog
Out of the Fog

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...

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For the Use of the Hall
For the Use of the Hall

A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forg...

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One Way Passage
One Way Passage

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pac...

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The Search
The Search

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended b...

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Guest in the House
Guest in the House

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. T...

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Five Star Final
Five Star Final

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a se...

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Back Door to Heaven
Back Door to Heaven

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd"....

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Cimarron
Cimarron

The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889....

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Heroes for Sale
Heroes for Sale

World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Ov...

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When You're in Love
When You're in Love

An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Mooc...

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The Lady Is Willing
The Lady Is Willing

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a bab...

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Silver Dollar
Silver Dollar

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty....

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I Could Go on Singing
I Could Go on Singing

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits Davi...

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Heat Lightning
Heat Lightning

Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discon...

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Ah, Wilderness!
Ah, Wilderness!

At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of g...

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All the Way Home
All the Way Home

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidenta...

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Dragon Seed
Dragon Seed

Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Ch...

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The Mighty McGurk
The Mighty McGurk

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from Eng...

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The Mouthpiece
The Mouthpiece

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convic...

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Week-End Marriage
Week-End Marriage

In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner....

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While the Patient Slept
While the Patient Slept

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill fami...

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Life Begins
Life Begins

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward...

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The Merry Frinks
The Merry Frinks

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter....

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Big Hearted Herbert
Big Hearted Herbert

After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws...

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Babbitt
Babbitt

Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing commun...

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The Heart of New York
The Heart of New York

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighbo...

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Mary Jane's Pa
Mary Jane's Pa

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he ...

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The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors

An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy....

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Antigone
Antigone

A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles....

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Kind Lady
Kind Lady

Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a si...

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Roseanna McCoy
Roseanna McCoy

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillb...

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Side Streets
Side Streets

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well....

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The World Changes
The World Changes

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen...

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I Live My Life
I Live My Life

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist....

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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
The Life of Jimmy Dolan

Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and woman...

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Medea
Medea

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge....

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The Eddie Cantor Story
The Eddie Cantor Story

Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radi...

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Tish
Tish

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a...

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Diamond Head
Diamond Head

Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everythi...

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Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals....

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Stage Door Canteen
Stage Door Canteen

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars o...

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Once in a Lifetime
Once in a Lifetime

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies....

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Complicated Women
Complicated Women

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...

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Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...

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Reward Unlimited
Reward Unlimited

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....

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The Man from Laramie
The Man from Laramie

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells ri...

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