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Madeleine Carroll
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…
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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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1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Nurse Johansen
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1950
Your Show of Shows
TV show
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV show Leslie Crosbie
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1949
The Fan
Movie Mrs. Erylnne
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1948
An Innocent Affair
Movie Paula Doane
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1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV show
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1947
White Cradle Inn
Movie Magda
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1942
My Favorite Blonde
Movie Karen Bentley
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1941
Bahama Passage
Movie Carol Delbridge
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1941
One Night In Lisbon
Movie Leonora Pettycoate
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1941
Virginia
Movie Charlotte Dunterry
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1940
North West Mounted Police
Movie April Logan
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1940
Safari
Movie Linda Stewart
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1940
My Son, My Son!
Movie Livia Vaynol
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1939
Honeymoon in Bali
Movie Gail Allen
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1939
Cafe Society
Movie Christopher West
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1938
It Might Be You
Movie Self - Introduction
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1938
Blockade
Movie Norma
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1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie Princess Flavia
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1937
It's All Yours
Movie Linda Gray
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1937
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1937
On the Avenue
Movie Mimi Caraway
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1936
Lloyd's of London
Movie Elizabeth Stacy
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1936
The General Died at Dawn
Movie Judy Perrie
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1936
Secret Agent
Movie Elsa Carrington
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1936
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Movie Hope Ames
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1936
The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
Movie The Introducer
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1935
The 39 Steps
Movie Pamela
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1935
The Dictator
Movie Queen Caroline Matilde of Danmark
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1934
The World Moves On
Movie Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
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1933
I Was a Spy
Movie Martha Cnockhaert
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1933
Sleeping Car
Movie Anne
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1931
The Written Law
Movie Lady Margaret Rochester
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1931
Fascination
Movie Gwenda Farrell
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1931
Madame Guillotine
Movie Lucille de Choisigne
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1930
Kissing Cup's Race
Movie Lady Molly Adair
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1930
The School for Scandal
Movie Lady Teazle
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1930
Escape!
Movie Dora
