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Profile of Aline MacMahon
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Aline MacMahon |
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3rd May 1899 |
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McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Actress |
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Aline MacMahon was a Jewish-American actress, who was born Aline Laveen MacMahon in McKeesport, Pennsylvania on May 3, 1899, but raised in New York City. She was educated at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York and at Barnard College in New York, New York. She 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. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. Other films included Babbitt, Gold Diggers of 1933, The Life of Jimmy Dolan, Ah, Wilderness!, The Flame and the Arrow, All the Way Home, and The Young Doctors.
She died at the age of 92 of pneumonia on October 12, 1991, in New York, New York. She was survived by her husband, Clarence Stein, but they had no children.
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