Cast: Aline MacMahon

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Aline MacMahon. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Flame and the Arrow

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Burt Lancaster · Virginia Mayo · Nick Cravat · Robert Douglas

Synopsis Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than...

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

The Man from Laramie

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Donald Crisp · Aline MacMahon

Synopsis Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. But he sticks around town,...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Heroes for Sale

1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Aline MacMahon · Loretta Young · Gordon Westcott

Synopsis A war veteran (Richard Barthelmess) whose cowardly comrade (Gordon Westcott) has accepted all the glory for his heroism battles a morphine addiction, then starts life anew in Chicago, where he prospers as the co-owner of a labor-saving laundry machine and...

7.2

314 votes

7.2

314 votes

Five Star Final

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marian Marsh · H.B. Warner · Anthony Bushell

Synopsis Editor Hinchecliffe wants to boost circulation for his "New York Gazette" and city editor Randall puts his top reporter on a 20-year-old murder case in which Nancy Vorhees shot her lover. As she is now a happy wife and mother,...

7.1

153 votes

7.1

153 votes

The Search

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Montgomery Clift · Aline MacMahon · Wendell Corey · Jarmila Novotna

Synopsis A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. At the same time, the boy's mother, the sole surviving member of his family, searches refugee centers...

Max

7.1

719 votes

7.1

719 votes

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Warren William · Joan Blondell · Aline MacMahon · Ruby Keeler

Synopsis Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on the street and due to depression there is no possibility...

6.9

612 votes

6.9

612 votes

One Way Passage

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast William Powell · Kay Francis · Aline MacMahon · Frank McHugh

Synopsis Suave Dan Hardesty, a convicted murderer, is apprehended by Steve Burke, a police detective, in Hong Kong and accompanied on the SS Maloa headed for San Francisco. On board, Dan romances Joan Ames, a terminally ill socialite. She is unaware...

Max

6.8

126 votes

6.8

126 votes

Cimarron

1960 · Movie · 147 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Glenn Ford · Maria Schell · Anne Baxter · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the life of an American family, from the 1890s through the 1920s, who move to Oklahoma territory. The epic western chronicles the founding of the Oklahoma town of Osage, and the lives of the...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Out of the Fog

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast John Garfield · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Eddie Albert

Synopsis Fishermen Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) are confronted by gangster Harold Goff (John Garfield) who tries to extort "boat protection" money out of the two men. Afraid to go to the law, the two men decide...

6.6

170 votes

6.6

170 votes

Dragon Seed

1944 · Movie · 147 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway · Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Walter Huston · Aline MacMahon · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese invaders. The use of caucasian actors and actresses in oriental roles significantly detracts from the film's realism.

6.5

380 votes

6.5

380 votes

I Live My Life

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Joan Crawford · Brian Aherne · Aline MacMahon · Frank Morgan

Synopsis Kay, a bored society girl from New York, takes a trip to Greece-where she meets, Terry, an archaeologist. Kay flirts with Terry and he falls for Kay. Kay heads back to New York and Terry follows her to propose marriage....

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes

I Could Go on Singing

1963 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Judy Garland · Dirk Bogarde · Jack Klugman · Aline MacMahon

Synopsis 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...

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

Guest in the House

1944 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm · André De Toth

Cast Anne Baxter · Ralph Bellamy · Aline MacMahon · Ruth Warrick

Synopsis No girl has ever been called more names! That's Evelyn...the guest...who manages to throw her pretty shadow around where any man near must see it - and when it comes to a man she grants no rights to anyone but...

5.5

129 votes

5.5

129 votes

Diamond Head

1963 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Guy Green

Cast Charlton Heston · Yvette Mimieux · George Chakiris · France Nuyen

Synopsis Charlton Heston nearly ruins his family with his domineering dictates in this steamy drama set in Hawaii. Heston is a wealthy pineapple plantation owner and a bigoted bully who despite the fact that he himself has a Chinese mistress flatly...

5.4

304 votes

5.4

304 votes

Once in a Lifetime

1932 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Russell Mack

Cast Jack Oakie · Sidney Fox · Aline MacMahon · Russell Hopton

Synopsis Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

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The World Changes

1933 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Paul Muni · Aline MacMahon · Mary Astor · Donald Cook

Synopsis An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

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For You Alone

1937 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Robert Riskin

Cast Grace Moore · Cary Grant · Aline MacMahon · Henry Stephenson

Synopsis In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot enter the country unless she is married. To this end, she hires a handsome artist (Cary Grant) temporarily marry...

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Life Begins

1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction James Flood · Elliott Nugent

Cast Loretta Young · Eric Linden · Aline MacMahon · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. Things liven up when Grace Sutton is transferred from...

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Back Door to Heaven

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Wallace Ford · William Harrigan · Stuart Erwin · Jimmy Lydon

Synopsis The life of a young slum kid, who starts out stealing small things in order to fit in with the "crowd", winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. Upon his release, he finds...

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Not rated