Aline MacMahon
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."
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Aline MacMahon
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All the Way Home | Aunt Hannah (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
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Diamond Head | Kapiolani Kahana (Character) | - | 1963 |
100% |
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I Could Go on Singing | Ida (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
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The Young Doctors | Dr. Lucy Grainger (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Cimarron | Mrs. Mavis Pegler (Character) | - | 1960 |
100% |
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The Man From Laramie | Kate Canady (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Eddie Cantor Story | Grandma Esther (Character) | - | 1953 |
100% |
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The Flame and the Arrow | Nonna Bartoli (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Roseanna McCoy | Sarie McCoy (Character) | - | 1949 |
100% |
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The Search | Mrs. Murray (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mighty McGurk | Mamie Steeple (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Dragon Seed | Ling Tan's Wife (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet |
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Guest in the House | Aunt Martha (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tish | Lizzie Wilkins (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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The Lady Is Willing | Buddy (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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Out of the Fog | Florence Goodwin (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet |
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Back Door to Heaven | Miss Williams (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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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% |
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Ah, Wilderness! | Lily Davis (Character) | - | 1935 |
40% |
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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 |
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Kind Lady | Mary Herries (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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Babbitt | Myra Babbitt (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan | Auntie (Character) | - | 1933 |
100% |
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Gold Diggers of 1933 | Trixie Lorraine (Character) | - | 1933 |
75% |
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Heroes for Sale | Mary Dennis (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
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The World Changes | Anna Nordholm (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Silver Dollar | Sarah Martin (Character) | - | 1933 |
100% |
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One Way Passage | Betty (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet |
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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% |
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Five Star Final | Miss Taylor (Character) | - | 1931 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |