
Mady Christians
Oyuncu · 1892 – 1951 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians (January 19, 1892 – October 28, 1951) was an Austrian actress and naturalized US citizen who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period. She was born on January 19, 1892 to Rudolph Christians, a well-known German actor, and his wife, Bertha. Her 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. Five years later she returned to Europe to study under Max Reinhardt. She appeared in a number of European films prior to the early 1930s. In 1929, she starred in the first full sound film made in Germany It's You I Have Loved. In 1933, she toured the United States in a play called Marching By and was offered a Broadway contract the following year that allowed her, like a number of other German artists, to seek refuge from the Nazi regime in the United States. On Broadway, Christians played Queen Gertrude in Hamlet and Lady Percy in Henry IV, Part I, staged by director Margaret Webster. Webster was part of a small but influential group of lesbian producers, directors, and actors in theater (a group that included Eva Le Gallienne and Cheryl Crawford). Webster and Christians became close friends: according to Webster biographer Milly S. Barranger, it is likely that they also were lovers. She also starred in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine. She originated the title role in the 1944 play I Remember Mama. Her last movie roles were in All My Sons, based on the play by Arthur Miller, and Letter from an Unknown Woman, both released in 1948. During World War II, Christians was involved in political work on behalf of refugees, rights for workers (especially in theater and film), and Russian War relief, political efforts that would bring her to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other anti-communist institutions and organizations. In addition to her political work, Christians also publicly criticized the House Committee on Un-American Activities in early 1941 and likened the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee's investigation of propaganda in US film to Nazi harassment of film and radio artists in the 1930s. In 1950, the FBI's internal security division began investigating Christians, who had been identified as a "concealed communist" by a confidential informant. When Christians' name appeared in Red Channels, the so-called bible of the broadcast blacklist, her career was effectively over.
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Film7.8DramRomantikYirminci yüzyılın başlarında Viyana'da, bir apartman binasında yaşayan genç bir kız olan Lisa (Joan Fontaine), yeni bir kiracı olan konser piyanisti Stefan Brand'a (Louis Jourdan) hayran kalır. Stefan enerjik performanslarıyla kendine bir isim yapar. Lisa, Stefan'a takıntılı hale gelir, onu çalarken dinlemek için geç saatlere kadar ayakta kalır ve gizlice dairesine girip onu uzaktan hayranlıkla izler. Lisa'nın çabalarına rağmen, sadece bir kez karşılaşırlar ve Stefan ona pek aldırmaz.
Film7.0DramAileBencil teyzesi Dete, 8 yaşındaki yetim Heidi’yi yaşlı, kimsesiz ve huysuz olan dedesi Adolph Kramer’in yanına yaşaması için götürür. Heidi melek gibi kalbiyle ve sevimli kişiliğiyle dedesini dağ yaşantısına katılması için ikna eder. Teyzesi Dete bir şekilde Heidi’yi geri almak ister ve onu uzakta yaşayan zengin bir adamın kızına arkadaş olması için götürür. Dedesi bu duruma çok kızar ve Heidi’yi geri almak için yola koyulur.
Heidi
1937 · 125 votes
Film6.5DramDuring WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
All My Sons
1948 · 32 votes
Film5.7DramRomantikJo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
Tender Comrade
1944 · 17 votes
Film7.0DramIn World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
The Woman I Love
1937 · 1 votes
Film6.4DramRomantikA Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Seventh Heaven
1937 · 18 votes
Film6.8DramRomantikAn ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Come and Get It
1936 · 46 votes
Film6.6KomediDramThe likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
FilmDramAudrey, an orphan, becomes the ward of a wealthy man, but when he travels to England, she is turned over to an unscrupulous couple who usurp her money and turn her into a slave.
Audrey
1916
Film6.2KomediMüzikA dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.
Film6.4DramRomantikA mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.
Michael
1924 · 55 votes
Film6.5TarihDramThe Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Film6.4DramGerilimWhen a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
Address Unknown
1944 · 31 votes
Film7.5KomediSuçManolescu, der Fürst der Diebe
1933 · 2 votes
Film10.0KomediFräulein Chauffeur
1928 · 1 votes
Film5.0DramRomantikA woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
A Wicked Woman
1934 · 5 votes
Film8.0TarihThe young Crown Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz grows up sheltered in the North German countryside in the late 18th century and develops into a bit of a rebel. She struggles to come to terms with the rules of etiquette at court; her actions are often spontaneous and driven by emotion. Thus, she resists accepting her father’s mistress and future wife. During a ball, she snubs her future stepmother and even has the audacity to ask the orchestra to play a waltz—a dance considered deeply improper at the time.
Film10.0Komedi
Film8.0MüzikThe singing stoker and the vamp.
Ship Cafe
1935 · 1 votes
Film8.0DramKomediDer Farmer aus Texas
1925 · 1 votes
Film8.0RomantikKomediA romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.
Escapade
1935 · 1 votes
Diziler1
Dizi6.6DramThe Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · 8 votes