1. Marguerita Maria Christians, known as Mady Christians, was an Austrian-born German-American actress who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
11 Facts About Mady Christians
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Mady Christians was born on January 19,1892, to daughter of Rudolf Christians and Bertha Christians.
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Mady Christians's family moved to Berlin when she was one year old, and to New York City in 1912, where her father became the Irving Place Theatre's general manager.
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Mady Christians appeared in several European films before the early 1930s.
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On Broadway, Christians played Queen Gertrude in Hamlet and Lady Percy in Henry IV, Part I, staged by director Margaret Webster.
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Mady Christians starred in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine.
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Mady Christians originated the title role in the 1944 play I Remember Mama.
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On February 13,1949, Mady Christians starred in "Silver Cord", an episode of Ford Television Theatre on CBS.
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In 1950, the FBI's internal security division began investigating Mady Christians, who had been identified as a "concealed communist" by a confidential informant.
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When Mady Christians' name appeared in Red Channels, the so-called bible of the broadcast blacklist, her career was effectively over.
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On October 28,1951, aged 59, Mady Christians died of a cerebral hemorrhage, which some attributed to the stress of being subjected to FBI surveillance and being blacklisted.