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.

Filmography

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