Madeleine Carroll
Acting
1906-02-26 · West Bromwich, England, UK
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.
Filmography
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Movie
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
Your Show of Shows
1950 · Series
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Series
The Fan
1949 · Movie
An Innocent Affair
1948 · Movie
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Series
White Cradle Inn
1947 · Movie
My Favorite Blonde
1942 · Movie
Bahama Passage
1941 · Movie
One Night In Lisbon
1941 · Movie
Virginia
1941 · Movie
North West Mounted Police
1940 · Movie
Safari
1940 · Movie
My Son, My Son!
1940 · Movie
Honeymoon in Bali
1939 · Movie
Cafe Society
1939 · Movie
It Might Be You
1938 · Movie
Blockade
1938 · Movie
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937 · Movie
It's All Yours
1937 · Movie
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
1937 · Movie
On the Avenue
1937 · Movie
Lloyd's of London
1936 · Movie
The General Died at Dawn
1936 · Movie
Secret Agent
1936 · Movie
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936 · Movie
The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
1936 · Movie
The 39 Steps
1935 · Movie
The Dictator
1935 · Movie
The World Moves On
1934 · Movie
I Was a Spy
1933 · Movie
Sleeping Car
1933 · Movie
The Written Law
1931 · Movie
Fascination
1931 · Movie
Madame Guillotine
1931 · Movie
Kissing Cup's Race
1930 · Movie
The School for Scandal
1930 · Movie
Escape!
1930 · Movie
French Leave
1930 · Movie
Young Woodley
1930 · Movie
L'instinct
1930 · Movie
The Crooked Billet
1930 · Movie
The W Plan
1930 · Movie
Atlantic
1929 · Movie
The American Prisoner
1929 · Movie
The First Born
1928 · Movie
The Guns of Loos
1928 · Movie