Aline MacMahon Movies

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.

An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman...

Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave...

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

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his...

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.