Mady Christians
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Marguerita Maria Christians, known as Mady Christians, was an Austrian-born German-American actress who had a successful acting career in theater and film in Europe and the United States until she was
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Mady Christians and Paul Lukas in the original Broadway production of Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine (1941)
Hungarian poster for the 1917 German film Das verlorene Paradies (The Lost Paradise)
Watch on the Rhine (play)
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Watch on the Rhine is a 1941 American play by Lillian Hellman. In an essay on World War II, a contributor to The Companion to Southern Literature wrote that the play's "peculiar combination of drawing
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…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 film roles were in All My Sons, based on the play by Arthur Miller, and Letter…
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Paul Lukas as Kurt Mueller in the original Broadway production of Watch on the Rhine (1941)
Lucile Watson in the Broadway production of Watch on the Rhine