Madeleine Carroll
Birthday
1906/02/26
Day of death
1987/10/02 (81 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
West Bromwich, England, UK
Also know as
Edith Madeleine Carroll, The Queen of British Cinema
Biography
Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 - 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success she was the highest-paid actress in the world, earning a then staggering $250,000 in 1938. Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. She is also noted for abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz, to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced and maimed by the war.
Acting
(1935) The 39 Steps
as Pamela
(1936) Secret Agent
as Elsa Carrington
(1937) The Prisoner of Zenda
as Princess Flavia
(1930) L'instinct
as Cécile Bernon
(1936) Lloyd's of London
as Elizabeth Stacy
(1940) North West Mounted Police
as April Logan
(1941) Bahama Passage
as Carol Delbridge
(1942) My Favorite Blonde
as Karen Bentley
(1928) The First Born
as Lady Madeleine Boycott
(1939) Honeymoon in Bali
as Gail Allen
(1937) On the Avenue
as Mimi Caraway
(1936) The General Died at Dawn
as Judy Perrie
(1938) Blockade
as Norma
(1934) The World Moves On
as Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
(1949) The Fan
as Mrs. Erylnne
(1936) The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Hope Ames
(1933) I Was a Spy
as Martha Cnockhaert
(1935) The Dictator
as Queen Caroline Matilde of Danmark
(1941) Virginia
as Charlotte Dunterry
(1947) White Cradle Inn
as Magda
(1940) Safari
as Linda Stewart
(1948) An Innocent Affair
as Paula Doane
(1937) It's All Yours
as Linda Gray
(1940) My Son, My Son!
as Livia Vaynol
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'The Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1930) Escape!
as Dora
(1939) Cafe Society
as Christopher West
(1931) Fascination
as Gwenda Farrell
(1930) The W Plan
as Rosa Hartmann
(1928) The Guns of Loos
as Diana Cheswick
(1930) The Crooked Billet
as Joan Easton
(1941) One Night In Lisbon
as Leonora Pettycoate
(1930) Young Woodley
as Laura Simmons
(1930) French Leave
as Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister
(1930) The School for Scandal
as Lady Teazle
(1930) Kissing Cup's Race
as Lady Molly Adair
(1931) Madame Guillotine
as Lucille de Choisigne
(1931) The Written Law
as Lady Margaret Rochester
(1929) The American Prisoner
as Grace Malherb
(1929) Atlantic
as Monica
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1933) Sleeping Car
as Anne
(1937) Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
as Self (uncredited)
(1936) The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
as The Introducer
(1938) It Might Be You
as Self - Introduction
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Nurse Johansen
(1950) Your Show of Shows
as ---
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Leslie Crosbie
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Pamela (archive footage) (uncredited)