Aline MacMahon

Infobox actor
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name = Aline MacMahon

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caption = from the trailer for "The Search" (1948)
birthname = Aline Laveen MacMahon
birthdate = May 3, 1899
location = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
deathdate = October 12, 1991, age 92
deathplace = New York, New York, USA
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Aline MacMahon (May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991) was an Oscar-nominated American actress.

Early life

MacMahon was born Aline Laveen MacMahon in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania; her family was Jewish [http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/jewwom/jw12.htm] and the origin of their surname, "MacMahon", is unclear. She was raised in New York City and educated at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York and at Barnard College in New York, New York.

Asked how to say her surname, she told "The Literary Digest" it was "mack-MAN". (Charles Earle Funk, "What's the Name, Please?", Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

Career

MacMahon began appearing on Broadway in the early 1920s. Her first film role was in 1931 in "Five Star Final", but she jumped back and forth between Broadway and Hollywood throughout her career.

In 1944 MacMahon appeared in the film "Dragon Seed", and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in that film. Other films included the film version of Sinclair Lewis's novel "Babbitt" (1934), "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933), "The Life of Jimmy Dolan", "Ah, Wilderness!" (1935), "When You're in Love" (1937), "The Flame and the Arrow" (1950), "All the Way Home" (1961), and "The Young Doctors" (1963), "I Could Go On Singing" (1963).

Death

MacMahon died at the age of 92 of pneumonia in New York, New York. Her husband, Clarence Stein, the legendary planner and architect and the founder of the Regional Planning Association died in 1975. They had no children.

Partial filmography

*"Five Star Final" (1931)
*"The Mouthpiece" (1932)
*"Life Begins" (1932)
*"One Way Passage" (1932)
*"Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933)
*"The Life of Jimmy Dolan" (1933)
*"Heroes for Sale" (1933)
*"The World Changes" (1933)
*"I Live My Life" (1935)
*"Ah, Wilderness!" (1935)
*"When You're in Love" (1937)
*"Out of the Fog" (1941)
*"Dragon Seed" (1944)
*"The Mighty McGurk" (1947)
*"The Search" (1948)
*"The Flame and the Arrow" (1950)
*"The Man from Laramie" (1955)
*"Cimarron" (1960)
*"The Young Doctors" (1961)
*"Diamond Head" (1963)
*"I Could Go On Singing" (1963)
*"All the Way Home" (1963)

External links

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Persondata
NAME= MacMahon, Aline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= MacMahon, Aline Laveen
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= May 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH= Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
DATE OF DEATH= October 12, 1991, age 92
PLACE OF DEATH= New York, New York, USA