Madeleine Carroll

from West Bromwich, England, UK

Artwork for The Prisoner of ZendaImage of Madeleine Carroll

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.

Timeline

1988Aged 82

  • Poster for The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    Self (archive footage)

1949Aged 43

  • Poster for The Fan

    Mrs. Erylnne

1948Aged 42

  • Poster for An Innocent Affair

    Paula Doane

1947Aged 41

  • Poster for White Cradle Inn

    Magda

1942Aged 36

  • Poster for My Favorite Blonde

    Karen Bentley

1941Aged 35

  • Poster for Virginia

    Charlotte Dunterry

  • Poster for One Night In Lisbon

    Leonora Pettycoate

  • Poster for Bahama Passage

    Carol Delbridge

1940Aged 34

  • Poster for My Son, My Son!

    Livia Vaynol

  • Poster for Safari

    Linda Stewart

  • Poster for North West Mounted Police

    April Logan

1939Aged 33

  • Poster for Cafe Society

    Christopher West

  • Poster for Honeymoon in Bali

    Gail Allen

1938Aged 32

1937Aged 31

  • Poster for On the Avenue

    Mimi Caraway

  • Poster for Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for It's All Yours

    Linda Gray

  • Poster for The Prisoner of Zenda

    Princess Flavia

1936Aged 30

1935Aged 29

  • Poster for The Dictator

    Queen Caroline Matilde of Danmark

  • Poster for The 39 Steps

    Pamela

1934Aged 28

  • Poster for The World Moves On

    Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914

1933Aged 27

  • Poster for Sleeping Car

    Anne

  • Poster for I Was a Spy

    Martha Cnockhaert

1931Aged 25

  • Poster for Madame Guillotine

    Lucille de Choisigne

  • Poster for Fascination

    Gwenda Farrell

  • Poster for The Written Law

    Lady Margaret Rochester

1930Aged 24

  • Poster for The W Plan

    Rosa Hartmann

  • Poster for The Crooked Billet

    Joan Easton

  • Poster for L'instinct

    Cécile Bernon

  • Poster for Young Woodley

    Laura Simmons

  • Poster for French Leave

    Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister

  • Poster for Escape!

    Dora

  • Poster for The School for Scandal

    Lady Teazle

  • Poster for Kissing Cup's Race

    Lady Molly Adair

1929Aged 23

  • Poster for The American Prisoner

    Grace Malherb

  • Poster for Atlantic

    Monica

1928Aged 22

  • Poster for The Guns of Loos

    Diana Cheswick

  • Poster for The First Born

    Lady Madeleine Boycott