1. Aline MacMahon made her screen debut in 1931, and worked extensively in film, theater, and television until her retirement in 1975.
15 Facts About Aline MacMahon
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Aline MacMahon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed.
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Aline MacMahon's parents married on July 14,1898, in Columbus, Ohio.
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That year the family moved to Brooklyn from McKeesport, and Aline MacMahon's mother began training her in the art of elocution.
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Soon, Aline MacMahon was performing at local churches and festivals where she recited poems and played the violin.
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Aline MacMahon was raised first in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, then in Brooklyn, New York.
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Aline MacMahon attended New York's public school 103, then entered Erasmus Hall High School in 1912.
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In 1916 the MacMahon family moved to the upper west side of Manhattan and Aline enrolled in nearby Barnard College.
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Aline MacMahon made her Broadway debut in 1920 as a craps-playing debutante in The Mirage.
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In 1922 Aline MacMahon was a member of the Neighborhood Playhouse company in Manhattan, just as Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre visited New York for a legendary tour.
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Accolades poured in for the MAT's performances, and the executives of the Neighborhood Playhouse made arrangements to charter the first teaching class of the Method in America, which Aline MacMahon attended with nine others.
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Aline MacMahon took the tenets of the Method very seriously, and was the only member of that inaugural class to achieve popular success, having debuted the technique on stage in the fall of 1923, and as the first practitioner of it on film in 1931.
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Aline MacMahon was chairwoman of the Equity Library Theater in 1950.
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Aline MacMahon organized productions for community theaters and was active in relief charities.
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Aline MacMahon died in 1991, aged 92, of pneumonia in New York City.