| Christina Aziz |
An American actress, born as Margaret Ann Knudsen in Duluth, Minnesota, USA on April 22, 1923 and died in Encino, California, USA on July 11, 1980, of cancer. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for her television works. She married three husbands and got four children. Her most important works are The Big Sleep (1946), Humoresque (1946), and Istanbul (1957). She was an American film, stage, and television actress. She was born to a family of Irish-Norwegian origins to a father who worked as the head of Duluth Fire Department. She studied violin as a child and practiced acting in school plays. Her family moved to Chicago, where she began her career in radio drama, and at the age of 17, she made her way to Broadway to participate in many plays. In 1945, she joined Hollywood to appear in films and signed a contract with Warner Brothers to present the movie A Stolen Life (1946). She provided an important role in the movie The Big Sleep (1946) for which she received support from critics. Then, she presented the movie Never Say Goodbye (1946) with Errol Flynn, and Humoresque (1946) with John Garfield, but Warner Company was unable to fully support her, so she loaned to Fox and Monogram Company to star in B-movies, such as Rosses Are Red (1947). She was a television star when it began broadcasting, guest-starred on prime-time series, such as
So This Is Hollywood (TV Series 1955–) in 24 episodes. She was awarded a star on the Walk of Fame for her television works. Her arthritis led to her early retirement from acting in 1965, and she spent most of her remaining few years under the care of her good friend, actress Jennifer Jones, who paid for her treatment until she died of cancer in 1980 at the age of 57.
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