1. Christie MacDonald was a Canadian-born American musical comedy actress and opera singer.
10 Facts About Christie MacDonald
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Christie MacDonald was perhaps best remembered as the Princess of Bozena in the 1910 operetta Spring Maid.
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Christie MacDonald retired from the stage after appearing in a 1920 revival of the musical comedy Florodora.
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Christie MacDonald was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the daughter of John MacClean Christie MacDonald, a shipbuilder, mariner and inn-keeper in the coastal town of Pictou and Jessie.
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Christie MacDonald began in theatre in 1893 in New York when she was cast in Francis Wilson's popular play Erminie.
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Christie MacDonald thereafter found success in the operetta brand of musical theater.
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Christie MacDonald's first starring role came in 1900 when she assumed the title role in the Kirke La Shelle and Julian Edwards comic opera The Princess Chic which starred Melville Collins as Louis XI.
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Christie MacDonald was married first to William W Jefferson, a son of the famous actor Joseph Jefferson, in 1901 and ended in divorce several years thereafter.
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In 1911 MacDonald married Henry L Gillespie, the scion of a wealthy Pittsburgh contracting family and had one daughter, Christie.
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Christie MacDonald died in Fairfield, Connecticut on July 25,1962.