Christie MacDonald

Christie MacDonald (February 28, 1875 – July 25, 1962) was a Canadian-born American musical comedy actress and opera singer.

[3][1] MacDonald began in theatre in 1893 in New York when she was cast in Francis Wilson's popular play Erminie.

MacDonald's first starring role came in 1900 when she assumed the title role in the Kirke La Shelle and Julian Edwards comic opera The Princess Chic which also starred Melville Collins as Louis XI.

MacDonald starred or co-starred in The Belle of Mayfair (1906) with Valeska Suratt, Miss Hook of Holland (1908) with Bertram Wallis and The Mikado (1910) with Fritzi Scheff.

In 1911 MacDonald married Henry L. Gillespie, the scion of a wealthy Pittsburgh contracting family and had one daughter, Christie.

Christie MacDonald,
The Opera Glass , 1898