Mady Christians ~ Issued in the early-1930s, card #155 of the Gold Film series. Card is a little larger than a traditional British or American cigarette card (slightly over 1½"x2¼"). Light wear, very good condition, see my scan.

Mady Christians was born on 19 January 1892 in Vienna, Austria. Destined to be in films in both Germany and the United States, Mady started out as a stage actress, but she soon found new challenges with the world of cinema. Her first film was at the tender age of sixteen when she appeared in Audrey in 1916. She remained in German films for the next sixteen years before she came the United States on the eve of the Nazi era. One of her last German roles was as "the Empress" in Ich und die Kaiserin (1933) which the Nazis would soon ban for its Jewish influences. In America she starred in The Only Girl in 1933 and also began a series of Broadway appearances that would last until very shortly before her death. Mady left cinema entirely in 1948 after filming All My Sons and Letter from an Unknown Woman and turned to television. Mady appeared on The Philco Television Playhouse, The Ford Theatre Hour, and an episode of The Clock. She died on October 28, 1951 in Norwalk, Connecticut from a cerebral hemorrhage.