Madeleine Carroll
Acting · Born 1906-02-26 · age 81 at death · 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.
Titles
The 39 Steps
Secret Agent
The Prisoner of Zenda
North West Mounted Police
Lloyd's of London
The General Died at Dawn
My Favorite Blonde
The Fan
The World Moves On
Blockade
Atlantic
The Philco Television Playhouse
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
The First Born
General Electric Theater
Escape!
An Innocent Affair
My Son, My Son!
On the Avenue
I Was a Spy
It's All Yours
Your Show of Shows
Honeymoon in Bali
White Cradle Inn
Fascination
The W Plan
Bahama Passage
Cafe Society
The Guns of Loos
The Dictator
Safari
Sleeping Car
The American Prisoner
L'instinct
Virginia
Young Woodley
Kissing Cup's Race
The Crooked Billet
French Leave
The School for Scandal
Madame Guillotine
The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
One Night In Lisbon
The Written Law