Aline MacMahon
Also Known As: Aline Laveen 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: May 03, 1899
Deathday: October 12, 1991
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Gender: Female
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Seeds of Freedom
Overview: Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave stand of Odessa Russian guerrilla bands of the 1940's against German forces with the similar situation of 1905 when Odessa citizens aided in the revolt against the Czar as depicted in Eisenstein's classic Potemkin (1925).
Genres: Drama Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-24
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Overview: During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter invests in a musical starring them, against the wishes of his high society brother. Thus start Carol, Trixie and Polly's schemes to bilk his money and keep the show going.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-27
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The Flame and the Arrow
Overview: Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Out of the Fog
Overview: A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-14
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For the Use of the Hall
Overview: A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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One Way Passage
Overview: A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-04
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The Search
Overview: In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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Guest in the House
Overview: Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-08
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Five Star Final
Overview: Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-26
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Back Door to Heaven
Overview: The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Cimarron
Overview: The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Heroes for Sale
Overview: Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-17
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When You're in Love
Overview: An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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The Lady Is Willing
Overview: Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-12
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Silver Dollar
Overview: A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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I Could Go on Singing
Overview: Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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Heat Lightning
Overview: A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Ah, Wilderness!
Overview: At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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All the Way Home
Overview: In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-17
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Dragon Seed
Overview: The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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The Mighty McGurk
Overview: A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-02
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The Mouthpiece
Overview: A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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Week-End Marriage
Overview: In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-18
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While the Patient Slept
Overview: A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-09
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Life Begins
Overview: A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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The Merry Frinks
Overview: An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-26
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Big Hearted Herbert
Overview: After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-06
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Babbitt
Overview: Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-08
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The Heart of New York
Overview: A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-26
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Mary Jane's Pa
Overview: Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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The Young Doctors
Overview: An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Antigone
Overview: A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-13
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Kind Lady
Overview: Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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Roseanna McCoy
Overview: It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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Side Streets
Overview: A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-14
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The World Changes
Overview: Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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I Live My Life
Overview: A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Overview: Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
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Medea
Overview: A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-12
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The Eddie Cantor Story
Overview: Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Tish
Overview: In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Diamond Head
Overview: Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Overview: Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-21
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Once in a Lifetime
Overview: Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-02
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Complicated Women
Overview: Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
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Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Reward Unlimited
Overview: Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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The Man from Laramie
Overview: Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-19
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