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Madeleine Carroll

Acting Born Feb 26, 1906 West Bromwich, England, UK 24 credits

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.

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Known for

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948

What's My Line?

as Self
Film

The 39 Steps

as Pamela

Full filmography

  • Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) as Leslie Crosbie
  • The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
  • What's My Line? (1950) as Self
  • Your Show of Shows (1950)
  • General Electric Theater (1953) as Nurse Johansen
  • The 39 Steps (1935) as Pamela
  • Secret Agent (1936) as Elsa Carrington
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) as Princess Flavia
  • The Fan (1949) as Mrs. Erylnne
  • Escape! (1930) as Dora
  • The American Prisoner (1929) as Grace Malherb
  • North West Mounted Police (1940) as April Logan
  • My Favorite Blonde (1942) as Karen Bentley
  • The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988) as Self (archive footage)
  • My Son, My Son! (1940) as Livia Vaynol
  • The General Died at Dawn (1936) as Judy Perrie
  • Lloyd's of London (1936) as Elizabeth Stacy
  • Virginia (1941) as Charlotte Dunterry
  • Blockade (1938) as Norma
  • Bahama Passage (1941) as Carol Delbridge
  • Fascination (1931) as Gwenda Farrell
  • On the Avenue (1937) as Mimi Caraway
  • An Innocent Affair (1948) as Paula Doane
  • The World Moves On (1934) as Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914