In 1929 she starred in the first full sound film made in Germany.
When her father took over a German theater in the USA, the whole family went to the USA where Mady Christians made her film debut with "Audrey" (24). But after the outbreak of World War I Mady Christians returned with her mother to Berlin.
She was born on January 19, 1892 to Rudolph Christians, who died during production of Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives and had to be replaced by a lookalike actor (Robert Edeson).
She achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
Married Dr. Sven von Mueller, editor of a Hamburg, Germany newspaper before coming to America in 1933.