Mady ChristiansFilmography

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith

Synopsis: Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman who falls in love with a concert pianist. Set in Vienna in 1900, the story is told in a complex flashback structure as the pianist, Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan), comes upon a Read More

Address Unknown

Actors: Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck, Mady Christians

Synopsis: A plot revealed through the correspondence between German-American businessman and his Jewish partner, Lukas, the German-American, returns to Germany during the early Nazi years and gets caught up in the racist philosophies. He goes to the point of denying even his partner's daughter, who is Read More

Tender Comrade

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge, Mady Christians

Synopsis: A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger Rogers is at her noblest and most self-sacrificial as Jo, whose husband Chris (Robert Ryan) is off fighting the war. Though pregnant, Jo finds a job at Douglas Aircraft Read More

The Woman I Love

Actors: Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward, Colin Clive, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by Joseph Kessel. Paul Muni stars as Maury, an unorthodox, abrasive WWI fighter-pilot whose skill in the air is compromised by his inability to get along with his colleagues and Read More

Heidi

Actors: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Pauline Moore

Synopsis: Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her best vehicles. Orphaned early in the proceeding, Heidi is left in the care of her bitter, misanthropic grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). It doesn't take long before Read More

The Seventh Heaven

Actors: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis: This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly Paris sewer worker who has abandoned his faith in God and any hope for a brighter future or romance when his prayers go unanswered. Chico meets Diane (Simone Simon), a Read More

Come and Get It

Actors: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Andrea Leeds

Synopsis: Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the top, Arnold loses out on a chance for lasting happiness by spurning earthy dance hall girl (Frances Farmer), who marries his best pal (Walter Brennan) on the rebound. Read More

Escapade

Actors: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Virginia Bruce, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Set in the Washington of World War I, Escapade stars William Powell as a newspaper editor eager to sign up for an overseas assignment. Instead, he's ordered to stay in Washington to decode enemy messages. This assignment has been arranged by the dizzy niece (Rosalind Russell) of the Undersecretary Read More

Ship Cafe

Actors: Carl Brisson, Arline Judge, Mady Christians, William Frawley, Eddie Davis

Synopsis: In this musical, a coal stoker for a ship finds himself turned into a singing sensation when someone hears him lustily singing in the bins one day. He ends up being convinced to go to work as a singer in a floating cafe. Soon he finds himself romantically involved with two women, a socialite and Read More

A Wicked Woman

Actors: Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford, Betty Furness, William Henry

Synopsis: Helen Hayes reportedly turned down the opportunity to play the title role in this dreary melodrama about self-sacrificing motherhood; the opportunity, if that's the word, instead went to Viennese import Mady Christians. After killing her abusive husband (Paul Harvey) in self-defense, downtrodden Read More

Ich und Die Kaiserin

Actors: Mady Christians, Lilian Harvey

Synopsis: In this musical the Empress' hairdresser finds herself mistaken for the Empress by a deranged aristocrat. Mayhem and music ensues as she tries to convince him otherwise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Schwarze Hussar

Actors: Bernhard Goetzke, Conrad Veidt, Wolf Albach-Retty, Mady Christians, Ursula Grabley

Salon Dora Green

Frau Von Der Man Spricht

Actors: Mady Christians, Szoke Szakall, Hans Stüwe

Manulescu

Actors: Hilde Hildebrand, Fritz Kampers, Ivan Petrovich

Synopsis: When jewel thief and womanizer Petrovich is caught and imprisoned he manages to escape to the Riviera where he takes up his craft until he is caught again. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Heart Song

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Charles Boyer, O.B. Clarence, Ernst Thesiger

Synopsis: In this British romance, a German duke falls passionately in love with the owner of a beautiful singing voice, even though he has never seen her. When he first hears it, the duke assumes that it belongs to the empress. The voice actually belongs to her hairdresser. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Friederike

Actors: Mady Christians, Veit Harlan

One Year Later

Actors: Mary Brian, Russell Hopton, Donald Dillaway, George Irving, Will Ahern

Synopsis: In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides with him and en route tells a reporter how her husband had accidentally killed a man while protecting her. The reporter, who is dying of tuberculosis, is touched by the story Read More

Lieutenant Warst du Husar?

Actors: Mady Christians, Gustav Diesel, Georg Alexander, Gretl Theimer

Synopsis: Faced with revolution, Queen Alexandria (Mady Christians) abdicates and scurries towards the border. En route, she makes the acquaintance of handsome rebel leader Feodor Karew (Gustav Diesel). Failing to recognize Alexandria as a member of the hated royalty, Feodor falls in love with her. She Read More

Because I Loved You

Actors: Mady Christians, Karl Platen

Synopsis: Because I Loved You was the first German-made talking picture to obtain a widespread release in the U.S. Mady Christians stars as Inge Lund, a popular stage actress who plans to retire upon the occasion of her marriage. Shortly before the wedding, she allows her drunken leading man Otto Radney Read More

The Burning Heart

Actors: Mady Christians, Friedrich Kayssler, Gustav Froehlich, Frida Richard

Synopsis: Das Brennende Herz (The Burning Heart) is motivated by the romance between young composer Georg Wittig (Gustav Froelich) and aspiring singer Dorothy Claudius (Mady Christians). Before their first meeting, hero and heroine have their own individual crosses to bear: Georg is saddled with an Read More

Mon Coeur Incognito

Actors: Mady Christians, Jean Angelo, Roger Treville

Runaway Princess

Synopsis: Princess Priscilla has been promised in matrimony to the prince of Savona, but she is not of the mind to go through with a marriage to a man she has never even met. With her professor at her side, she leaves her palace and sneaks away to London. Although relieved to have escaped an unhappy fate Read More

Duel

Actors: Mady Christians, Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Murat

Slums of Berlin

Actors: Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Bildt, Margarete Kupfer, Aud Egede Nissen

Synopsis: Gerald Lamprecht's impressionistic 1925 character study Die Verrufenen was released in the U.S. in 1927 as The Slums of Berlin. Bernard Goetzke heads the cast as paroled convict Robert Kramer, trying to scratch out a meager living despite the misery and deprivation all around him. Unable to find a Read More

Ein Walzertraum

Actors: Jacob Tiedtke, Mady Christians, Willy Fritsch, Julius Falkenstein

Synopsis: This UFA silent, based on an old operetta, is far more light-hearted and spirited than the moody, heavy-handed fare that generally came out of Germany. It is a romantic comedy involving the pretty-but-prudish Princess Alix (Mady Christians). She is pawned off on the playful Count Nicholas Preyn (Willy Fritsch Read More

Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs

Actors: Harry Liedtke, Mady Christians, Guido Herzfeld, Hermann Valentin, Alfred Abel

Synopsis: Director F.W. Murnau and scriptwriter Thea von Harbou both took a change of pace from their usual dramas with this satiric farce about Grand Duke Don Ramon XX (Harry Liedtke), whose idyllic country is threatened by revolution. The troublemakers are a trio of conspirators, working with a corrupt Read More

Das Weib des Pharao

Actors: Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener

Synopsis: While he was working in his native Germany, Ernst Lubitsch directed a number of historical pictures -- although this one is not that well-known today, it was one of the most spectacular. Emil Jannings stars in the title role of the Egyptian Pharaoh. Samlak, the king of the Ethiopians (Paul Read More

Audrey

Synopsis: Pauline Frederick plays Audrey in this five-reel adaptation of the novel by Mary Johnston. In a true change of pace for the matronly Frederick, Audrey is a hoydenish gamine in the tradition of Mary Pickford. But upon falling in love with a titled Englishman, the heroine "grows up" quite prettily Read More