Aline MacMahon
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.
The Man from Laramie
as Kate CanadayWill Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who...
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The Flame and the Arrow
as Nonna BartoliDardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy...
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Gold Diggers of 1933
as Trixie LorraineDuring the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed...
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The Search
as Mrs. MurrayIn postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is...
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Out of the Fog
as Florence GoodwinA Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up...
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
as AuntieChampion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and...
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Cimarron
as Mrs. Mavis PeglerThe epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Kind Lady
as Mary HerriesMary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as...
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I Live My Life
as Betty CollinsA society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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Five Star Final
as Miss TaylorSearching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print...
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The World Changes
as Anna NordholmGenerational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as...
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Guest in the House
as Aunt Martha ProctorEvelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan...
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Heroes for Sale
as Mary DennisTom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I...
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Side Streets
as Bertha KrasnoffA spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
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One Way Passage
as Countess BarilhausA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a...
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Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...
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Heat Lightning
as OlgaA lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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Roseanna McCoy
as Sarie McCoyIt's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the...
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Ah, Wilderness!
as Cousin LilyAt the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows...
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Diamond Head
as Kapiolani KahanaRich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control...
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I Could Go on Singing
as IdaJenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits...
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When You're in Love
as Marianne WoodsAn Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the...
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The Mighty McGurk
as Mamie SteepleA retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from...
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The Merry Frinks
as Hattie 'Mom' FrinkAn heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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The Young Doctors
as Dr. Lucy GraingerAn aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
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Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits,...
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Stage Door Canteen
as Aline MacMahonA young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous...
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The Heart of New York
as BessieA poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side...
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Life Begins
as Miss BowersA day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The...
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Week-End Marriage
as Agnes DavisIn this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
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Antigone
as NurseA 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.
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Dragon Seed
as Ling Tan's WifeThe lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An...
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The Eddie Cantor Story
as Grandma EstherFilm biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage,...
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All the Way Home
as Aunt HannahIn the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden,...
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The Lady Is Willing
as BuddyBold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a...
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Babbitt
as Myra BabbittMiddle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing...
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Tish
as Lizzie WilkinsIn this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is...
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Once in a Lifetime
as May DanielsStory of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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The Mouthpiece
as Miss Hickey, Day's SecretaryA prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got...
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Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
as Self (archive footage)Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.
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Mary Jane's Pa
as Ellen PrestonSam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family,...
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Back Door to Heaven
as Miss WilliamsThe life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
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Silver Dollar
as Sarah MartinA farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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For the Use of the Hall
as BessA penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art...
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While the Patient Slept
as Nurse Sarah KeateA murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill...
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Big Hearted Herbert
as Elizabeth KalnessAfter cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective...
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Reward Unlimited
as Mrs. ScottShort film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Great Performances
as NurseThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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The Philco Television Playhouse
as uncreditedThe Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...
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Studio One
as Mrs. WestonAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...
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Studio One
as Mrs. GreyAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...
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The Defenders
as Mary Alice TrotterThe Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...
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The Defenders
as Mrs. VronisThe Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...
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