Madeleine Carroll

Known for ActingBorn 1906-02-26Died 1987-10-02West 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The American Prisoner

Virginia

L'instinct

Young Woodley

Kissing Cup's Race

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope

Madame Guillotine

The W Plan

The Crooked Billet

French Leave

The School for Scandal

Bahama Passage

Honeymoon in Bali

Cafe Society

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Guns of Loos

Your Show of Shows

Lloyd's of London

The 39 Steps

On the Avenue

What's My Line?

One Night In Lisbon

General Electric Theater

The Written Law

White Cradle Inn

The Philco Television Playhouse

Fascination

Safari

The General Died at Dawn

My Favorite Blonde

The Dictator

Sleeping Car

North West Mounted Police

I Was a Spy

Escape!

Robert Montgomery Presents

Secret Agent

The Fan

The World Moves On

Blockade

It's All Yours

Atlantic

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

The Case Against Mrs. Ames

An Innocent Affair

My Son, My Son!

The First Born