Madeleine Carroll
Known For
Acting
Born
1906-02-26 in West Bromwich, England, UK
Died
1987-10-02
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.
Most Known For
What's My Line?
as Self
The Philco Television Playhouse
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Leslie Crosbie
Your Show of Shows
Escape!
as Dora
Fascination
as Gwenda Farrell
The 39 Steps
as Pamela
My Favorite Blonde
as Karen Bentley
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Princess Flavia
Madame Guillotine
as Lucille de Choisigne
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
Secret Agent
as Elsa Carrington
General Electric Theater
as Nurse Johansen
An Innocent Affair
as Paula Doane
I Was a Spy
as Martha Cnockhaert
The W Plan
as Rosa Hartmann
Blockade
as Norma
North West Mounted Police
as April Logan
Cafe Society
as Christopher West
Bahama Passage
as Carol Delbridge