Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll

Born: February 26, 1906
Died: October 2, 1987
in 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.

Movies for Madeleine Carroll...

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Title: The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Title: Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Character: 'The Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Pamela (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Nurse Johansen
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Leslie Crosbie
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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The Fan
Title: The Fan
Character: Mrs. Erylnne
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
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An Innocent Affair
Title: An Innocent Affair
Character: Paula Doane
Released: October 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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White Cradle Inn
Title: White Cradle Inn
Character: Magda
Released: February 28, 1947
Type: Movie
This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The trouble begins when she wants to adopt a French orphan and he doesn't.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Karen Bentley
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Bahama Passage
Title: Bahama Passage
Character: Carol Delbridge
Released: December 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be there. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.
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One Night In Lisbon
Title: One Night In Lisbon
Character: Leonora Pettycoate
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
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Virginia
Title: Virginia
Character: Charlotte Dunterry
Released: January 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: April Logan
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Safari
Title: Safari
Character: Linda Stewart
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
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My Son, My Son!
Title: My Son, My Son!
Character: Livia Vaynol
Released: March 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
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Honeymoon in Bali
Title: Honeymoon in Bali
Character: Gail Allen
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
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Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Christopher West
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Blockade
Title: Blockade
Character: Norma
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Princess Flavia
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
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It's All Yours
Title: It's All Yours
Character: Linda Gray
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors actress Constance "Connie" Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda but he has urged his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan things so that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Coached by Duncan, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won't be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Jimmy as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the ingenious Baron Rene de Montigny with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray.
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Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Title: Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita Racetrack, the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove, the Biltmore Bowl, and the American Legion Stadium.
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Mimi Caraway
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Elizabeth Stacy
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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The General Died at Dawn
Title: The General Died at Dawn
Character: Judy Perrie
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Elsa Carrington
Released: May 31, 1936
Type: Movie
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Title: The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Character: Hope Ames
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
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The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
Title: The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
Character: The Introducer
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A educational drama about Tuberculosis.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Pamela
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Queen Caroline Matilde of Danmark
Released: February 7, 1935
Type: Movie
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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The World Moves On
Title: The World Moves On
Character: Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
Released: June 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
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I Was A Spy
Title: I Was A Spy
Character: Martha Cnockhaert
Released: September 4, 1933
Type: Movie
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
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Sleeping Car
Title: Sleeping Car
Character: Anne
Released: June 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
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The Written Law
Title: The Written Law
Character: Lady Margaret Rochester
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A man is cured of blindness but conceals his recovery from his wife.
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Fascination
Title: Fascination
Character: Gwenda Farrell
Released: July 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.
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Madame Guillotine
Title: Madame Guillotine
Character: Lucille de Choisigne
Released: February 19, 1931
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.
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Kissing Cup's Race
Title: Kissing Cup's Race
Character: Lady Molly Adair
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .
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The School for Scandal
Title: The School for Scandal
Character: Lady Teazle
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.
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Escape!
Title: Escape!
Character: Dora
Released: August 28, 1930
Type: Movie
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
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French Leave
Title: French Leave
Character: Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy.
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Young Woodley
Title: Young Woodley
Character: Laura Simmons
Released: July 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.
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Instinct
Title: Instinct
Released: April 4, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Crooked Billet
Title: The Crooked Billet
Character: Joan Easton
Released: March 21, 1930
Type: Movie
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The W Plan
Title: The W Plan
Character: Rosa Hartmann
Released: February 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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Atlantic
Title: Atlantic
Character: Monica
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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The American Prisoner
Title: The American Prisoner
Character: Grace Malherb
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
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The First Born
Title: The First Born
Character: Lady Madeleine Boycott
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
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The Guns of Loos
Title: The Guns of Loos
Character: Diana Cheswick
Released: February 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).