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 U
1948-04-28
All My Sons
1948-05-01
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 F
1933-03-17
Salon Dora Green
1933-02-22
The Only Girl
1933-02-22
Frederica
1932-11-01
The Black Hussar
1932-10-12
The Fate of Rena
1931-02-11
My Incognito Hea
1931-01-16
Love Comes But O
1930-10-29
Dich hab’ ich
1929-11-30
Meine Schwester
1929-08-27
The Runaway Prin
1929-03-01
Und Nelson spiel
1929-02-26
The Burning Hear
1929-02-16
A Woman with Sty
1928-09-12
Fräulein Chauff
1928-06-19
The Duel
1928-02-01
Queen Louise
1927-12-22
Heimweh
1927-10-21
Grand Hotel...!
1927-09-05
Der Sohn der Hag
1927-03-24
Die Welt will be
1926-10-28
Die geschiedene
1926-10-08
Die Königin von
1926-10-04
Wien, wie es wei
1926-09-15
Zopf und Schwert
1926-08-26
Nanette macht al
1926-04-15
The Waltz Dream
1926-03-14
Der Farmer aus T
1925-10-21
In the Slums of
1925-08-28
In the Valleys o
1925-01-01
Mensch gegen Men
1924-12-02
Soll und Haben
1924-10-09
Michael
1924-09-26
The Finances of
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 Pha
1922-02-21
Wer unter Euch o
1921-02-18
Peter Voss, Thie
1921-01-01
Am anderen Ufer
1918-05-01
Nachtschatten
1918-01-01