姓名：艾琳·麦克马洪Aline MacMahon
更多名：Aline Laveen MacMahon (本名)
职业：演员
国家：美国
出生日期：1899-05-03
去世日期：1991-10-12
星座：金牛座
出 生 地：美国宾夕法尼亚州麦基斯波特
Aline MacMahon was born of Irish/Russian ancestry on May 3 1899 the daughter of William Marcus MacMahon and Jennie Simon MacMahon. Her father went on to become editor-in-chief of Munsey's Magazine while her mother pursued a theatrical acting career from middle-age and lived to the ripe old age of 107. After the family moved to Brooklyn Aline was educated in New York and graduated from Barnard College in 1920. She first appeared on stage in 'The Madras House' at the Neighbourhood Playhouse and subsequently made her bow on Broadway in 'The Mirage' in 1921. During the 1920's Aline had a prolific career on Broadway first as a comedienne adept at impersonations (notably in 'The Grand Street Follies' and 'Artists and Models'). By 1926 she proved to be equally adept at dramatic roles making an impact in Eugene O'Neill's 'Beyond the Horizon'. Noël Coward described her as 'astonishing moving and beautiful' while critic Alexander Woollcott commented on her 'extraordinary beauty vitality and truth' (New York Times October 14 1991). Aline's distinguished career on the stage went on for five and a half decades highlighted by many critically acclaimed performances in plays like 'The Eve of St.Mark' (1942-43) 'The Confidential Clerk' (1954) 'Pictures in the Hallway' (1956) and 'All the Way Home' (1960-61). Her somewhat melancholic heavy-lidded and thickly eye-browed features inspired sculptor Isamu Noguchi and photographer Cecil Beaton.Aline's film career began on the strength of her wisecracking voice-culture teacher May Daniels in the Kaufman and Hart comedy 'Once in a Lifetime' which she had created on stage in Los Angeles in 1931. She reprised her role on screen the following year and was prior to that cast in similar roles as feisty secretaries in Five Star Final (1931) (her debut) and The Mouthpiece (1932). Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) afforded her a well-received co-starring role as the hard-boiled Trixie Lorraine. Aline managed to escape typecasting with several strong dramatic performances: Edward G. Robinson's sad cast-off wife in Silver Dollar (1932); the sympathetic self-sacrificing Mrs. Moore of The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933); her co-starring role as Guy Kibbee's long-suffering wife Myra in Babbitt (1934); and kindly spinster aunt Lily Davis in Ah Wilderness! (1935).In the 1940's Aline began playing lower-billed character parts but was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as the Chinese mother of Katharine Hepburn's character Ling Tan in Dragon Seed (1944). After that Aline played a succession of gentle mothers and grandmothers as for example in The Eddie Cantor Story (1953). She was also occasionally employed in meatier outdoor roles in anything from swashbucklers like The Flame and the Arrow (1950) to westerns such as her ranch owner in The Man from Laramie (1955). More exotically cast she portrayed James Darren's Hawaiian mother Kapiolani Kahana in Diamond Head (1962). In her last motion picture performance she recreated her stage role as Aunt Hannah for the Paramount film version of All the Way Home (1963). Based on the novel A Death in the Family by James Agee the picture was a huge success with the critics but performed less well at the box office.Except for a handful of guest appearances on television Aline pretty much retired from the screen after 1964 and died of pneumonia at her Manhattan home at the age of 92 in October 1991.
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