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Aline MacMahon - Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting (Hardcover)
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Aline MacMahon - Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting (Hardcover)
Series: Screen Classics
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American actress Aline MacMahon's youth was spent honing her
talents while performing at local events in New York City. After
popular stage success on Broadway, she headlined a touring company
in Los Angeles, where she was discovered by legendary Hollywood
director Mervyn LeRoy and put under contract to Warner Brothers.
During the 1930s and 1940s, MacMahon starred in countless films and
was among the most influential actors of the era, her talent
revered as highly as peers Katherine Hepburn, Paul Muni, and Bette
Davis. Her pioneering use of a new acting style brought to America
from Russia by Konstantin Stanlisavsky - now widely known as the
Method - began a revolution on the screen and made her an industry
darling. Although popular with audiences and widely lauded for her
versatile, naturalistic style, MacMahon's despair at the lack of
challenging roles and fallout from her political activism would
soon dim her star in the most tragic of ways. Blacklisted during
the Communist Red Scare of the 1950's she became the subject of
covert FBI surveillance and was denied work for many years. John
Stangeland's biography of this unique actress, Aline MacMahon,
offers an insightful look into the life and oeuvre of this largely
overlooked talent and how the atmosphere of Hollywood's golden age
created an inescapable blueprint for a career nearly destroyed by
politics and fear.
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