Christie Macdonald

Macdonald, Christie (1875–1962), singer and actress. The blonde beauty, with one of the finest soprano voices of her generation, was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, and was given her start in New York by Francis Wilson, who featured her in his 1893 revival of Erminie. Between then and her retirement in 1920, MacDonald was the leading lady in a score of musicals, most notably The Spring Maid (1910) and Sweethearts (1913), which was written for her by Victor Herbert. Among her other assignments were the heroines of The Belle of Mayfair (1906) and Miss Hook of Holland (1908). A critic described MacDonald as “dainty as a moss rose” and as one of the few operetta stars “worth fussing over.”