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Mady Christians

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Foto: Alexander Binder (1888-1929)

1896 - 1951

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The actress Mady Christians was born as Marguerite Maria Christians. Her family was an artist family and because her father Rudolf Christians and her mother Bertha Klein were most of the time on tour, Mady Christians spent most of her life in a Berliner monastery of the Ursulinerinnen since her sixth year.

When her father took over a German theater in the USA, the whole family went to the USA where Mady Christians made her film debut with "Audrey" (16). But after the outbreak of World War I Mady Christians returned with her mother to Berlin.

There she could find some work at Max Reinhardt's theater through some of his friends. Finally she was monopolized by the new cinema world and in the following years she appeared in many German silent movies, among them you find productions like "Nachtschatten" (18), "Die Nacht des Grauens" (19), "Die Gesunkenen" (19), "Das Weib des Pharao" (22), "Ein Glas Wasser" (23), "Michael" (24) and "Königin Luise" (28).

The German sound film offered her only little work like "Das Schicksal der Renate Langen" (31) and "Friederike", before she emigrated to the USA in 1933. There she continued actin successful at theaters and she also appeared in several successful pictures like "The Only Girl" (33) with Charles Boyer, "Escapade/Masquerade" (35) with William Powell, "Seventh Heaven" (37) with James Stewart, "Tender Comrade" (43) with Ginger Rogers and "All My Sons - All meine Söhne" (48) with Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson.
 

Other movies with Mady Christians:
Das verlorene Paradies (17) Die Krone von Kerkyra - Liebe und Hass einer Königstochter (17) Die Verteidigerin (18) Die Sühne der Martha Marx (18) Das verlorene Paradies (18) Eine junge Dame von Welt (18) Frau Marias Erlebnis (18) Die Dreizehn (18) Am Scheidewege (18) Am anderen Ufer (18) Wer unter Euch ohne Sünde ist (19) Not und Verbrechen (19) Der goldene Club (19) Fidelio (19) Die Peruanerin (19) Der Mann ohne Namen (21) Der Schicksalstag (21) Kinder der Zeit (22) Es leuchtet meine Liebe (22) Der Wetterwart (23) Die Buddenbrooks (23) Der verlorene Schuh (23) Mensch gegen Mensch (24) Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs (24) Soll und Haben (24) Der Abenteurer (25) Die vom Niederrhein (25) Der Walzertraum (25) Der Farmer aus Texas (25) Die Verrufenen (25) Nanette macht alles (26) Die geschiedene Frau (26) Zopf und Schwert (26) Die Welt will belogen sein (26) Wien, wie es weint und lacht (26) Grand Hotel...! (27) Heimweh (27) Der Sohn der Hagar (27) Die Jugend der Königin Luise (27) Eine Frau von Format (28) Le Duel (28) Fräulein Chauffeur (28) Meine Schwester und ich (29) The Runaway Princess - Priscillas Fahrt ins Glück (29) Das brennende Herz (29) Dich hab ich geliebt (29) Mon coeur incognito (30) Die Liebe der Renate Langen (30) Leutnant warst Du einst bei deinen Husaren (30) Die Frau von der man spricht (31) Der schwarze Husar (32), Ich und die Kaiserin (33) Salon Dora Green (33) Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe (33) A Wicked Woman (34) Ship Cafe (35) Come and Get It - Nimm, was du kriegen kannst (36) The Woman I Love (37) Heidi (37) Address Unknown (44) Letter from an Unknown Woman - Brief einer Unbekannten (48) Serie "The Philco Television Playhouse: Papa Is All" (49)


 
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