Mady Christians [14357] Gender: Female Popularity: 0.3733 Birthplace: Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) Birthday: 1892-01-17 Deathday: 1951-10-29 Age: 59 years Movies: 55 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: 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. Letter from an U1948-04-28 All My Sons1948-05-01 Address Unknown1944-06-01 Tender Comrade1944-05-30 Heidi1937-10-15 The Woman I Love1937-04-15 Seventh Heaven1937-03-25 Come and Get It1936-11-06 Ship Cafe1935-11-09 Escapade1935-07-05 A Wicked Woman1934-12-07 The Only Girl1933-06-17 Manolescu, der F1933-03-17 Salon Dora Green1933-02-22 The Only Girl1933-02-22 Frederica1932-11-01 The Black Hussar1932-10-12 The Fate of Rena1931-02-11 My Incognito Hea1931-01-16 Love Comes But O1930-10-29 Dich hab’ ich 1929-11-30 Meine Schwester 1929-08-27 The Runaway Prin1929-03-01 Und Nelson spiel1929-02-26 The Burning Hear1929-02-16 A Woman with Sty1928-09-12 Fräulein Chauff1928-06-19 The Duel1928-02-01 Queen Louise1927-12-22 Heimweh1927-10-21 Grand Hotel...!1927-09-05 Der Sohn der Hag1927-03-24 Die Welt will be1926-10-28 Die geschiedene 1926-10-08 Die Königin von1926-10-04 Wien, wie es wei1926-09-15 Zopf und Schwert1926-08-26 Nanette macht al1926-04-15 The Waltz Dream1926-03-14 Der Farmer aus T1925-10-21 In the Slums of 1925-08-28 In the Valleys o1925-01-01 Mensch gegen Men1924-12-02 Soll und Haben1924-10-09 Michael1924-09-26 The Finances of 1924-01-07 The Lost Shoe1923-12-05 Die Buddenbrooks1923-08-30 A Glass of Water1923-02-01 Der Wetterwart1923-01-01 The Loves of Pha1922-02-21 Wer unter Euch o1921-02-18 Peter Voss, Thie1921-01-01 Am anderen Ufer1918-05-01 Nachtschatten1918-01-01