Madeleine Carroll
Birthday: 1906-02-26
Place of Birth: West Bromwich, England, UK
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.
Movies
The 39 Steps
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...
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Secret Agent
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switze...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...
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L'instinct
Between the feelings of the man who believes himself to be deceived and of the surgeon's instinct, i...
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Lloyd's of London
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f...
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North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave...
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Bahama Passage
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take...
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My Favorite Blonde
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an...
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The First Born
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is a...
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Honeymoon in Bali
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the...
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On the Avenue
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her ow...
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The General Died at Dawn
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adven...
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Blockade
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along th...
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The World Moves On
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to ...
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The Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The ...
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The Case Against Mrs. Ames
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge....
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I Was a Spy
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding milit...
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The Dictator
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Chris...
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Virginia
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMur...
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White Cradle Inn
This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chro...
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Safari
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hu...
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An Innocent Affair
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ...
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It's All Yours
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and...
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My Son, My Son!
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not s...
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Escape!
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an ...
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Cafe Society
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get...
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Fascination
Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodram...
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The Guns of Loos
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western F...
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The W Plan
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talk...
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The Crooked Billet
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)...
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One Night In Lisbon
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference f...
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French Leave
During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband,...
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The School for Scandal
Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles....
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Madame Guillotine
During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman....
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The American Prisoner
Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, i...
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Atlantic
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and s...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insig...
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Sleeping Car
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they ge...
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Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, th...
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It Might Be You
This is a charity promotional film about Papworth Village TB sanatorium....
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