Margaret Webster
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Margaret Webster was an American-British theater actress, producer and director. Critic George Jean Nathan described her as "the best director of the plays of Shakespeare that we have."
Scene from Margaret Webster's Broadway production of Othello (1943) with Uta Hagen as Desdemona, Webster as Emilia, and Jack Manning as Roderigo
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
Margaret Webster
…her long romantic relationship with actress Eva Le Gallienne. Webster was also believed to have had a brief off or on relationship with the actress Mady Christians during this same time frame. On Broadway, Christians played Queen Gertrude in Hamlet and Lady Percy in Henry IV, Part I, staged by Webster. Webster and…
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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)