Aline MacMahon Movies

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's...

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

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...

An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party,...

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

Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea...

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

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

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

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

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

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

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.

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure...

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance...

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.