Jennie Mac

Jennie Mac (born Yachna Sosa Shimon, later known as Jennie Cecile Simon and Jennie Simon MacMahon) was born in Tsarist Russia into a Jewish family that would emigrate to the United States. She began her acting career in 1931 at the age of 53 after the death of her husband, William MacMahon. Her daughter, Aline MacMahon, was a well-known film and stage actress who encouraged her mother's new career. Jennie Mac studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She often appeared in the films of her nephew, S. Sylvan Simon. She died in 1984, several weeks before her 107th birthday, at her home in Beverly Hills.