Mady Christians
Mady Christians (born 19 January 1896 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † October 28, 1951 in Norwalk, Connecticut; native Margaret Mary Christian ) was an Austrian actress.
Life
The daughter of actor Rudolf Christian and his wife Bertha nee Klein, a former opera singer, moved in 1902 with his family to Berlin. She attended business school and received acting lessons with Frank Reicher. A significant part of their childhood was spent in New York, where her father, the German -speaking Irving Place Theatre initiated.
Soon she played first children's roles in the theater. Your first film appearance she completed in an American film, but after the USA entered the war in 1917, she returned to Germany. She took on stage roles at theaters in Berlin and was able to continue her career as a silent film actress. Attention she received for the first time 1920/21 in the Six divider The man with no name on the side of Harry Liedtke. Other successes they had, especially in 1925 in A Waltz Dream and in the two-part film adaptation of Queen Louise (1927 ).
Mady Christians was Dr. Sven Müller married to the journalist and writer since the early 1920s. In 1928 she founded with director Ludwig Berger, the "country -Film GmbH " in Berlin, but their activity stopped again after 1931.
After coming to power of the Nazis, she emigrated to the United States. There she appeared in several film and theater roles. In 1945, she was acting coach at Columbia University and was a member of the board of the American stage cooperative. 1950 accused the FBI of the connection to the Communist Party.