Mady Christians
1892-01-17 ( 133 years old ) in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians (January 19, 1892 – October 28, 1951) was an Austrian actress and naturalized US citizen who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period. She was born on January 19, 1892 to Rudolph Christians, a well-known German actor, and his wife, Bertha. Her family moved to Berlin when she was one year old, and to New York City in 1912, where her father became the Irving Place Theatre's general manager. Five years later she returned to Europe to study under Max Reinhardt. She appeared in a number of European films prior to the early 1930s. In 1929, she starred in the first full sound film made in Germany It's You I Have Loved. In 1933, she toured the United States in a play called Marching By and was offered a Broadway contract the following year that allowed her, like a number of other German artists, to seek refuge from the Nazi regime in the United States. On Broadway, Christians played Queen Gertrude in Hamlet and Lady Percy in Henry IV, Part I, staged by director Margaret Webster. Webster was part of a small but influential group of lesbian producers, directors, and actors in theater (a group that included Eva Le Gallienne and Cheryl Crawford). Webster and Christians became close friends: according to Webster biographer Milly S. Barranger, it is likely that they also were lovers. She also starred in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine. She originated the title role in the 1944 play I Remember Mama. Her last movie roles were in All My Sons, based on the play by Arthur Miller, and Letter from an Unknown Woman, both released in 1948. During World War II, Christians was involved in political work on behalf of refugees, rights for workers (especially in theater and film), and Russian War relief, political efforts that would bring her to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other anti-communist institutions and organizations. In addition to her political work, Christians also publicly criticized the House Committee on Un-American Activities in early 1941 and likened the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee's investigation of propaganda in US film to Nazi harassment of film and radio artists in the 1930s. In 1950, the FBI's internal security division began investigating Christians, who had been identified as a "concealed communist" by a confidential informant. When Christians' name appeared in Red Channels, the so-called bible of the broadcast blacklist, her career was effectively over.

Movies

All My Sons 1948-05-01
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948-04-28
Address Unknown 1944-06-01
Tender Comrade 1944-05-30
Heidi 1937-10-15
The Woman I Love 1937-04-15
Seventh Heaven 1937-03-25
Come and Get It 1936-11-06
Ship Cafe 1935-11-09
Escapade 1935-07-05
A Wicked Woman 1934-12-07
The Only Girl 1933-06-17
Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe 1933-03-17
The Only Girl 1933-02-22
Salon Dora Green 1933-02-22
Frederica 1932-11-01
The Black Hussar 1932-10-12
The Fate of Renate Langen 1931-02-11
My Incognito Heart 1931-01-16
Love Comes But Once 1930-10-29
Dich hab’ ich geliebt 1929-11-30
Meine Schwester und ich 1929-08-27
The Runaway Princess 1929-03-01
Und Nelson spielt 1929-02-26
The Burning Heart 1929-02-16
The Duel 1928-10-10
A Woman with Style 1928-09-12
Fräulein Chauffeur 1928-06-19
Queen Louise 1927-12-22
Heimweh 1927-10-21
Grand Hotel...! 1927-09-05
Der Sohn der Hagar 1927-03-24
Die Welt will belogen sein 1926-10-28
Die geschiedene Frau 1926-10-08
Die Königin von Moulin Rouge 1926-10-04
Wien, wie es weint und lacht 1926-09-15
Zopf und Schwert 1926-08-26
Nanette macht alles 1926-04-15
The Waltz Dream 1926-03-14
Der Farmer aus Texas 1925-10-21
In the Slums of Berlin 1925-08-28
In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine 1925-01-01
Mensch gegen Mensch 1924-12-02
Soll und Haben 1924-10-09
Michael 1924-09-26
The Finances of the Grand Duke 1924-01-07
The Lost Shoe 1923-12-05
Die Buddenbrooks 1923-08-30
A Glass of Water 1923-02-01
Der Wetterwart 1923-01-01
The Loves of Pharaoh 1922-02-21
Wer unter Euch ohne Sünde ist 1921-02-18
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions 1921-01-01
Am anderen Ufer 1918-05-01
Nachtschatten 1918-01-01

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