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