Aline MacMahon
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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Acting History
2006
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound as Self (archive footage)
2003Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
1975For the Use of the Hall as Bess
1974Antigone as Nurse
1971Great Performances as Nurse
1963All the Way Home as Aunt Hannah
1963I Could Go on Singing as Ida
1962Diamond Head as Kapiolani Kahana
1961The Defenders as Mary Alice Trotter
1961The Defenders as Mrs. Vronis
1961The Young Doctors as Dr. Lucy Grainger
1960Cimarron as Mrs. Mavis Pegler
1959Medea as The Nurse
1955The Man from Laramie as Kate Canaday
1953The Eddie Cantor Story as Grandma Esther
1950The Flame and the Arrow as Nonna Bartoli
1949Roseanna McCoy as Sarie McCoy
1948Studio One as Mrs. Weston
1948Studio One as Mrs. Grey
1948The Philco Television Playhouse
1948The Search as Mrs. Murray
1947The Mighty McGurk as Mamie Steeple
1944Guest in the House as Aunt Martha Proctor
1944Dragon Seed as Ling Tan's Wife
1944Reward Unlimited as Mrs. Scott
1944Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
1943Seeds of Freedom as Odessa Citizen
1943Stage Door Canteen as Aline MacMahon
1942Tish as Lizzie Wilkins
1942The Lady Is Willing as Buddy
1941Out of the Fog as Florence Goodwin
1939Back Door to Heaven as Miss Williams
1937When You're in Love as Marianne Woods
1935Ah, Wilderness! as Cousin Lily
1935Kind Lady as Mary Herries
1935I Live My Life as Betty Collins
1935Mary Jane's Pa as Ellen Preston
1935While the Patient Slept as Nurse Sarah Keate
1934Babbitt as Myra Babbitt
1934Big Hearted Herbert as Elizabeth Kalness
1934Side Streets as Bertha Krasnoff
1934The Merry Frinks as Hattie 'Mom' Frink
1934Heat Lightning as Olga
1933The World Changes as Anna Nordholm
1933Heroes for Sale as Mary Dennis
1933The Life of Jimmy Dolan as Auntie
1933Gold Diggers of 1933 as Trixie
1932Silver Dollar as Sarah Martin
1932One Way Passage as Countess Barilhaus
1932Once in a Lifetime as May Daniels
1932Life Begins as Miss Bowers
1932Week-End Marriage as Agnes Davis
1932The Heart of New York as Bessie
1932The Mouthpiece as Miss Hickey, Day's Secretary
1931Five Star Final as Miss Taylor