Aline MacMahon: Aline MacMahon. Actress: Kind Lady. Aline MacMahon was born of Scottish-Irish and Russian-Jewish ancestry on May 3,1899, the daughter of William Marcus MacMahon and Jennie Simon MacMahon. Her father became editor-in-chief of Munsey's Magazine, while her mother pursued a theatrical acting career from middle-age and lived to age107. After the family moved to Brooklyn, Aline was educated at then-prestigious Erasmus Hall High School. She later attended Barnard College where she...
Known For: Kind Lady (Mary Herries), Heat Lightning (Olga), Once in a Lifetime (May Daniels), While the Patient Slept (Sarah Keate)