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Aline MacMahon

Aline MacMahon

Highest Rated: 100% One Way Passage (1932)

Lowest Rated: 40% I Live My Life (1935)

Birthday: May 3, 1899

Birthplace: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Tall, melancholy-looking character lead of exceptional versatility. MacMahon was moving in dramatic roles and, as a deft comedienne, excelled at playing wisecracking secretaries in "Five Star Final" (1931) and "The Mouthpiece" (1932). Immediately after graduating from Barnard College in 1920, she made her New York stage debut in "The Madras House" and her performance in the 1926 revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon," was acclaimed by Noel Coward as "astonishing, moving and beautiful." Although MacMahon gave memorable performances as the forgotten first wife in "Silver Dollar" (1932) and won an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn's Chinese mother in "Dragon Seed" (1944), she is best remembered for playing sassy, snappy working women such as the fraudulent "voice-culture" teacher in George S. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's Hollywood spoof "Once in a Lifetime" (1932) and as the sarcastic, unemployed comedienne in "Gold Diggers of 1933."

Highest rated movies

100% I Could Go on Singing
100% The Man From Laramie
100% The Flame and the Arrow
100% The Search
100% Ah, Wilderness!
100% Gold Diggers of 1933
100% One Way Passage
91% Five Star Final

Photos

AH, WILDERNESS!, Aline MacMahon, 1935 SILVER DOLLAR, Aline MacMahon, 1932 ALL THE WAY HOME, Aline MacMahon, 1963 THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, Aline MacMahon, 1955 FIVE STAR FINAL, Edward G. Robinson, Aline MacMahon, Boris Karloff, 1931 HEAT LIGHTNING, Aline MacMahon, 1934 THE LADY IS WILLING, Robert Emmett Keane, Marlene Dietrich, Aline MacMahon, 1942 THE LADY IS WILLING, Marlene Dietrich, Aline MacMahon, Stanley Ridges, 1942 SILVER DOLLAR, from left, Aline MacMahon, Edward G. Robinson, 1932 AH, WILDERNESS!, Wallace Beery, Aline MacMahon, 1935 HEAT LIGHTNING, Aline MacMahon, Edgar Kennedy, 1934 THE MIGHTY MCGURK, from left: Aline MacMahon, Wallace Beery, 1947 AH, WILDERNESS!, Spring Byington, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Bonita Granville, 1935 HEAT LIGHTNING, Jane Darwell, Edgar Kennedy, Aline MacMahon (bending over car), 1934 THE MOUTHPIECE, Warren William, William Janney, Aline MacMahon (right), 1932 ONCE IN A LIFETIME, Russell Hopton, Jack Oakie, Aline MacMahon, 1932 ONCE IN A LIFETIME, from left, Jack Oakie, Aline MacMahon, 1932 AH, WILDERNESS!, Wallace Beery, Aline MacMahon, 1935 BIG HEARTED HERBERT, l-r: Guy Kibbee, Aline MacMahon, 1934 THE SEARCH, Aline MacMahon, 1948
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet All the Way Home Aunt Hannah (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 57% Diamond Head Kapiolani Kahana (Character) - 1963
100% 75% I Could Go on Singing Ida (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 55% The Young Doctors Dr. Lucy Grainger (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 54% Cimarron Mrs. Mavis Pegler (Character) - 1960
100% 79% The Man From Laramie Kate Canady (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Eddie Cantor Story Grandma Esther (Character) - 1953
100% 59% The Flame and the Arrow Nonna Bartoli (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 20% Roseanna McCoy Sarie McCoy (Character) - 1949
100% 92% The Search Mrs. Murray (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mighty McGurk Mamie Steeple (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 40% Dragon Seed Ling Tan's Wife (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 31% Guest in the House Aunt Martha (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tish Lizzie Wilkins (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 67% The Lady Is Willing Buddy (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 31% Out of the Fog Florence Goodwin (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 20% Back Door to Heaven Miss Williams (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 46% When You're in Love Marianne Woods (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet While the Patient Slept Nurse Sarah Keate (Character) - 1935
100% 57% Ah, Wilderness! Lily Davis (Character) - 1935
40% 50% I Live My Life Betty Collins (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet House of Menace Mary Herries (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mary Jane's Pa Ellen Preston (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 33% Kind Lady Mary Herries (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 85% Heat Lightning Olga (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Side Streets Bertha (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Big-Hearted Herbert Elizabeth Kalness (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Merry Frinks Hattie "Mom" Frink (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 33% Babbitt Myra Babbitt (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 25% The Life of Jimmy Dolan Auntie (Character) - 1933
100% 86% Gold Diggers of 1933 Trixie Lorraine (Character) - 1933
75% 69% Heroes for Sale Mary Dennis (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Silver Dollar Sarah Martin (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 20% The World Changes Anna Nordholm (Character) - 1933
100% 80% One Way Passage Betty (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 67% The Mouthpiece Miss Hickey (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Once in a Lifetime May Daniels (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Heart of New York Bessie (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Week-end Marriage Agnes Davis (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Life Begins Miss Bowers (Character) - 1932
91% 79% Five Star Final Miss Taylor (Character) - 1931

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Studio One Unknown (Character) 1957