| Christina Aziz |
American actress and producer, who was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA on January 13, 1905. She received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960 for her films. She was married 5 times, starting with writer John Meehan, William Gaston, James Dwight Francis (1922-1924), then actor, producer and director Kenneth MacKenna (1931-1933), and finally Eric Barnekow (1939-1945). Among her most important works: Trouble in Paradise (1932), One Way Passage (1932), and Confession (1937). She was very popular and was nicknamed the queen of Warner Company as she was the highest paid in the mid-thirties. She began her career as a businesswoman selling real estate and arranging lavish social parties. She began her artistic career in 1925 on the stage by playing the role of the queen in the play Hamlet and continued her theatrical performance until the end of the twenties. She signed a contract with Paramount Company to work in cinema, then moved to Warner Company. She was known as the most elegant woman and spent a lot on her clothes. During the forties, she entered the world of production and then retired in the early fifties. She donated most of her fortune to The Seeing Eye, an organization which trains guide dogs for the blind. She died on August 26, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA of cancer.
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