Mady Christians


Marguerita Maria Mady Christians 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 wellknown German actor, and his wife, Bertha. Her family moved to Berlin when she was one year old, and to New York in 1912, where her father became the Irving Place Theatres general manager. Five years later she returned to Europe to study under Max Reinhardt.

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