- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMarguerite Maria Christians
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Mady Christians was born in Vienna, Austria. Destined to be in films in both Germany and the US, she started out as a stage actress but soon found new challenges in the world of cinema. Her first film was at the age of 24 when she appeared in Audrey (1916). She remained in German films for the next 17years before coming to the US and starring in The Only Girl (1933). Mady left the film industry in 1948 after finishing All My Sons (1948).
She died on October 28, 1951, in Norwalk, CT, from a cerebral hemorrhage.
- IMDb mini biography by: Denny Jackson (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpouseDr. Sven von Mueller (divorced)
- Appeared in U.S., Austrian, German, French, and British films.
- In 1929 she starred in the first full sound film made in Germany.
- 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" (24). But after the outbreak of World War I Mady Christians returned with her mother to Berlin.
- She achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
- Studied with Max Reinhardt.
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