By Vlad Zakh · March 22, 2026
Drama feel goodthought provoking
Aline MacMahon brought warm intelligence and understated wit to Hollywood and often played loyal friends and quietly resilient working women. Gold Diggers of 1933 schemes to fund a Depression-era show, Babbitt questions a conformist businessman’s life, Dragon Seed resists the Japanese occupation, and The Search helps a traumatised orphan boy find his mother. Heroes for Sale and Life Begins round out the list.
01 Aline MacMahon is in this Montgomery Clift drama about an American soldier who helps a traumatised, orphaned refugee boy search for his missing mother after the war.
Directed by Fred Zinnemann · 1h 44m · Rated NR
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02 A Chinese village family resists the brutal Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet & Jack Conway · 2h 28m · Rated NR
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03 Aline MacMahon features in this adaptation about a conformist small-town businessman whose midlife crisis leads him to question his conventional life.
Directed by William Keighley · 1h 14m · Rated NR
04 Struggling Broadway performers scheme to fund a new show during the Great Depression.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · 1h 37m · Rated NR
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05 A decorated war veteran struggles with addiction and poverty while trying to rebuild his life.
Directed by William A. Wellman · 1h 12m · Rated NR
06 Aline MacMahon appears in this pre-Code drama about expectant mothers in a hospital maternity ward who face their futures together on the eve of childbirth.
Directed by James Flood · 1h 11m
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