From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMarguerita 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 Theatres 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 Its 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 Hellmans 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 Subcommittees investigation of propaganda in US film to Nazi harassment of film and radio artists in the 1930s. In 1950, the FBIs 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.
Frau Berndle
Film 1948
La reine Alexandra
Film 1931
Film 1927
Großfürstin Olga von Rußland
Film 1924
Karie Linbeck
Film 1936
Manya Lodge
Film 1944
Elsa Schulz
Film 1944
Anita
Film 1935
Naomi Trice, aka Naomi Stroud
Film 1934
Kaiserin Eugenie
Film 1933
Marie Luise
Film 1932
Film 1922
Gert Nissen
Film 1921
Comtesse Maria Freyenberg
Film 1933
Film 1929
Inge Lund
Film 1929
Dora Green
Film 1933
Königin Alexandra von Gregorien
Film 1930
Prinzessin Alix
Film 1926
Friederike
Film 1932
Regine Lossen
Film 1925
Empress Eugénie
Film 1933
Violante
Film 1923
die Herzogin
Film 1926
Ebba von Thorn
Film 1918
Gerda Arnoldsen
Film 1923
Königin Luise
Film 1927
Steffi Walker
Film 1928
Baroneß Leonore von Rothensattel
Film 1924
Film 1924
Bettina von Wittelsbach
Film 1925
Renate Langen
Film 1931
Sefi
Film 1926
Mabel Bratt
Film 1925
Film 1923
Lore
Film 1927
Mery
Film 1926
Dorothee Claudius
Film 1929
Countess Boranoff
Film 1935
Woman (uncredited)
Film 1924
Film 1918
Film 1928
Princess Priscilla
Film 1929
Film 1927
Film 1926
Film 1923
Margarete von Marquardstein
Film 1929
Film 1926
Film 1926
Film 1928
Film 1921