Personal Info
Known Credits
45
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1906-02-26 (119 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
West Bromwich, England, UK
Also Known For
Edith Madeleine CarrollThe Queen of British Cinema
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 ch ...
Known For
Acting
1988 --
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
| Self (archive footage)
1961 --
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
| 'The Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1949 --
The Fan
| Mrs. Erylnne
1948 --
An Innocent Affair
| Paula Doane
1947 --
White Cradle Inn
| Magda
1942 --
My Favorite Blonde
| Karen Bentley
1941 --
Bahama Passage
| Carol Delbridge
1941 --
One Night In Lisbon
| Leonora Pettycoate
1941 --
Virginia
| Charlotte Dunterry
1940 --
North West Mounted Police
| April Logan
1940 --
Safari
| Linda Stewart
1940 --
My Son, My Son!
| Livia Vaynol
1939 --
Honeymoon in Bali
| Gail Allen
1939 --
Cafe Society
| Christopher West
1938 --
It Might Be You
| Self - Introduction
1938 --
Blockade
| Norma
1937 --
The Prisoner of Zenda
| Princess Flavia
1937 --
It's All Yours
| Linda Gray
1937 --
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
| Self (uncredited)
1937 --
On the Avenue
| Mimi Caraway
1936 --
Lloyd's of London
| Elizabeth Stacy
1936 --
The General Died at Dawn
| Judy Perrie
1936 --
Secret Agent
| Elsa Carrington
1936 --
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
| Hope Ames
1936 --
The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
| The Introducer
1935 --
The 39 Steps
| Pamela
1935 --
The Dictator
| Queen Caroline Matilde of Danmark
1934 --
The World Moves On
| Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
1933 --
I Was a Spy
| Martha Cnockhaert
1933 --
Sleeping Car
| Anne
1931 --
The Written Law
| Lady Margaret Rochester
1931 --
Fascination
| Gwenda Farrell
1931 --
Madame Guillotine
| Lucille de Choisigne
1930 --
Kissing Cup's Race
| Lady Molly Adair
1930 --
The School for Scandal
| Lady Teazle
1930 --
Escape!
| Dora
1930 --
French Leave
| Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister
1930 --
Young Woodley
| Laura Simmons
1930 --
L'instinct
| Cécile Bernon
1930 --
The Crooked Billet
| Joan Easton
1930 --
The W Plan
| Rosa Hartmann
1929 --
Atlantic
| Monica
1929 --
The American Prisoner
| Grace Malherb
1928 --
The First Born
| Lady Madeleine Boycott
1928 --
The Guns of Loos
| Diana Cheswick