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 in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress. Carroll is remembered for her role in

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's '' The 39 Steps'' (1935). She is also noted for largely abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the

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to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced or maimed by the war. She was awarded both the

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and the Medal of Freedom for her work with the

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Early life

Carroll was born at 32 Herbert Street (now number 44) in

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, Staffordshire, daughter of John Carroll, an Irish professor of languages from

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, and Helene, his French wife. She graduated from the

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, with a B.A. degree in languages. While at university she appeared in some productions for the Birmingham University Dramatic Society. She was a French mistress at a girls' school in

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for a year.

Acting career

Early years

Carroll's father opposed her taking up acting, but with her mother’s support she quit teaching and traveled to London to look for stage work. She had won a beauty contest, and got a job in Seymour Hicks' touring company, making her stage debut in 1927 in ''The Lash''. The following year she made her screen debut in '' The Guns of Loos'', and then starred alongside

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in '' The First Born'', written by Alma Reville. Thence she met Reville's husband,

Film stardom

Carroll was the lead in her second film, '' What Money Can Buy'' (1928) with Humberston Wright. She followed it with '' The First Born'' (1928) with

, which really established her in films. Carroll went to France to make '' Not So Stupid'' (1928). Back in Britain she starred in '' The Crooked Billet'' (1929) and ''

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'' (1929), both shot in silent and sound versions. In 1930, she starred in ''

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'', then co-starred with

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in '' The W Plan'' (1930). In France she was in ''

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'' (1930). On stage, Carroll appeared in ''The Roof'' (1929) for Basil Dean, '' The Constant Nymph'', ''Mr Pickwick'' (opposite

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) and an adaptation of ''

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''. The same year, Carroll starred in the controversial '' Young Woodley'' (1930), followed by a farce, ''

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'' (1930). She had a support role in an early adaptation of '' Escape'' (1930) and was the female lead in ''

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'' (1930) and '' Kissing Cup's Race'' (1930). Carroll starred as a French aristocrat in '' Madame Guillotine'' (1931) with Aherne, then did another with Mander, '' Fascination'' (1931). She was in '' The Written Law'' (1931), then signed a contract with Gaumont British for whom she made ''

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'' (1932) with

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. She had a big hit with '' I Was a Spy'' (1933), which won her an award as best actress of the year. It was directed by Victor Saville. Carroll played the title role in the play ''Little Catherine''. Abruptly, she announced plans to retire from films to devote herself to a private life with her husband, the first of four. Carroll went to Hollywood to appear in '' The World Moves On'' (1934) for Fox;

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directed and

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co starred. Back in England she was in '' The Dictator'' (1935) for Saville, playing Caroline Matilda of Great Britain.

Hitchcock

Carroll attracted the attention of

and in 1935 starred as one of the director's earliest prototypical cool, glib, intelligent blondes in '' The 39 Steps''. Based on the espionage novel by

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, the film became a sensation and with it so did Carroll. Cited by ''

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'' for a performance that was "charming and skillful", Carroll became very much in demand. Of Hitchcock heroines as exemplified by Carroll, film critic

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wrote:

The female characters in his films reflected the same qualities over and over again: They were blonde. They were icy and remote. They were imprisoned in costumes that subtly combined fashion with fetishism. They mesmerised the men, who often had physical or psychological handicaps. Sooner or later, every Hitchcock woman was humiliated.

The director wanted to re-team Carroll with her ''39 Steps'' co-star

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the following year in '' Secret Agent'', a spy thriller based on a work by W. Somerset Maugham. However, Donat's recurring health problems intervened, resulting in a Carroll–

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pairing. In between the films she made a short drama '' The Story of Papworth'' (1935).

Hollywood

Poised for international stardom, Carroll was the first British beauty to be offered a major American film contract. She accepted a lucrative deal with

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and was cast opposite George Brent in '' The Case Against Mrs. Ames'' (1936). She followed this with '' The General Died at Dawn'' (1936), and was borrowed by

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to play the female lead in ''

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'' (1936) which made a star of

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. She stayed at the studio to make '' On the Avenue'' (1937), a musical with

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and Alice Faye. Carroll went to Columbia for '' It's All Yours'' (1937) then was cast by

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's love interest in the 1937 box-office success ''

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''. Walter Wanger put her in ''

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'' (1938) with

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, about the

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. Back at Paramount she made some comedies with

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, '' Cafe Society'' (1939) and '' Honeymoon in Bali'' (1939). Edward Small gave her top billing in '' My Son, My Son!'' (1940) with Aherne. She starred in ''

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'' (1940) then played against Gary Cooper in '' North West Mounted Police'' (1940), directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Paramount put Carroll opposite MacMurray in ''

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'' (1941) and '' One Night in Lisbon'' (1941). ''Virginia'' also starred

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who was reteamed with Carroll in '' Bahama Passage'' (1941). Carroll was

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's love interest in '' My Favorite Blonde'' (1942).

Radio and theatre

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, Carroll was a participant in ''The Circle'' (1939) on NBC, discussing "current events, literature and drama" each week. In 1944, she was the host of ''This Is the Story'', an anthology series dramatising famous novels on the

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. At the tail end of radio's golden age, Carroll starred in the NBC soap opera ''The Affairs of Dr. Gentry'' (1957–59). She also was one of a group of four stars who rotated in taking the lead in each week's episode of ''The NBC Radio Theater'' (1959). In 1948 she made her debut on Broadway as Agatha Reed in

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's '' Goodbye, My Fancy''; a role later portrayed by

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in the 1951 film adaptation.

Return to Britain

Carroll returned to Britain after the war. She was in '' White Cradle Inn'' (1947). She went back to the US and was reunited with MacMurray for '' An Innocent Affair'' (1948). Her last film was '' The Fan'' (1949).

Awards

In 1946, Carroll was awarded France's

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for her overseas work, during

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, liaising between the forces of the

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and the

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, and her post-war fostering of amity between

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and the

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. For her contributions to the

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, Carroll was inducted into the

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in 1960 with a motion pictures star located at 6707

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. A commemorative monument and plaques were unveiled in her birthplace, West Bromwich, to mark the centenary of her birth. Her story is one of rare courage and dedication when at the height of her success she gave up her acting career during World War II to work in the line of fire on troop trains for the

in Italy after her sister was killed by a German air raid – for which she was awarded the American Medal of Freedom.

Personal life

Carroll married her first husband, Colonel Philip Reginald Astley, in 1931; they divorced in 1939. He was an estate agent, big-game hunter and soldier. In 1941, she starred opposite

in ''

''. The following year they married, divorcing in 1946. After her only sister, Marguerite, was killed in World War II's

, Carroll made a radical shift from acting to working in field hospitals as a

nurse. Having become a

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US citizen in 1943, she served at the American Army Air Force's 61st Station Hospital in

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, Italy, in 1944, where wounded airmen flying out of area's air bases were hospitalised. She earned the rank of captain and received the Medal of Freedom for her nursing service. Carroll first visited Spain's

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in 1934. The following year she bought an estate in Calonge, where her seaside home, Castell Madeleine, was constructed. She was prevented from living there by the

and World War II and moved to Marbella in 1949. The home was later demolished, leaving one tower intact, and a housing development named after it (Urbanización Castell Madeleine). During the war, Carroll donated another property of hers, a château she owned outside Paris, to house more than one hundred and fifty orphans, arranging for groups of young people in California to knit clothing for them. In an RKO-Pathe News bulletin she was filmed at the château with children and staff wearing the donated clothes thanking those who contributed. She was awarded the

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for her efforts by France. Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower remarked in private that, of all the movie stars he met in Europe during the war, he was most impressed with Carroll and

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(who worked with military amputees). After the war, Carroll stayed in Europe where she conducted a radio program fostering French-American friendship and helped in the rehabilitation of

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victims, during which she met her future third husband, the French producer

Henri Lavorel Henri-Albert-Sylvestre Lavorel (5 July 19147 January 1955) was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie and was married to the English actress Madeleine Carroll from 1946 to 1949. Lavorel died in a car crash in Versailles in 1955 aged 40. He worked as a pro ...

. In late 1946, she went briefly to Switzerland to film a British film, '' White Cradle Inn'' (aka ''High Fury''). On her return to Paris, she and Lavorel formed a production company and made several two-reel documentaries to promote peace, one of which, ''Children's Republic'', was shown at the

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. Carroll told the

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that "wars are started at the top but can be prevented at the bottom, if all men and women will rid themselves of distrust and suspicion of that which is foreign." Filmed in a small orphanage in the town of

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, just southwest of Paris, it focused attention on the devastation of children's lives in Europe caused by war. Widely shown in Canada, it became a prime source of funds for the manufacture of artificial limbs for wounded children. In 1947, Carroll returned to the US together with Lavorel. Their intention was for her to resume her acting career, which would fund their production company, but they soon separated. Appearing in three more films until 1949 and debuting on Broadway in 1948, Carroll then mostly retired from acting, although she did occasionally appear on television and radio until the mid-1960s. She married Andrew Heiskell, publisher of ''

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'', in 1950, and they had a daughter Anne Madeleine in 1951. They divorced in 1965. By then, Carroll had moved to Paris. She later moved to Spain, where she shared an estate with her mother and her daughter. Her mother died in 1975 and her daughter, having relocated to New York, died in 1983.

Death

Carroll died on 2 October 1987, aged 81, in

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, Spain, from

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and is buried in the cemetery of Sant Antoni de Calonge in

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Filmography

* '' The Guns of Loos'' (1928) as Diana Cheswick * '' What Money Can Buy'' (1928) as Rhoda Pearson * '' The First Born'' (1928) as Lady Madeleine Boycott * '' Not So Stupid'' (1928) * '' The Crooked Billet'' (1929) as Joan Easton * ''

'' (1929) as Grace Malherb * ''

'' (1929) as Monica * '' The W Plan'' (1930) as Rosa Hartmann * ''

'' (1930) * '' Young Woodley'' (1930) as Laura Simmons * ''

'' (1930) as Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister * '' Escape'' (1930) as Dora * ''

'' (1930) as Lady Teazle * '' Kissing Cup's Race'' (1930) as Lady Molly Adair * '' Madame Guillotine'' (1931) as Lucille de Choisigne * '' Fascination'' (1931) as Gwenda Farrell * '' The Written Law'' (1931) as Lady Margaret Rochester * ''

'' (1933) as Anne * '' I Was a Spy'' (1933) as Martha Cnockhaert * '' The World Moves On'' (1934) as Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914 * '' The Dictator'' (1935) as Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark * '' The 39 Steps'' (1935) as Pamela * ''

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'' (1935, short) as The Introducer * '' Secret Agent'' (1936) as Elsa Carrington * '' The Case Against Mrs. Ames'' (1936) as Hope Ames * '' The General Died at Dawn'' (1936) as Judy Perrie * ''

'' (1936) as Lady Elizabeth * '' On the Avenue'' (1937) as Mimi Caraway * '' It's All Yours'' (1937) as Linda Gray * ''

'' (1937) as Princess Flavia * ''

'' (1938) as Norma * '' Cafe Society'' (1939) as Christopher West * '' Honeymoon in Bali'' (1939) as Gail Allen * '' My Son, My Son!'' (1940) as Livia Vaynol * ''

'' (1940) as Linda Stewart * ''

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'' (1940) as April Logan * ''

'' (1941) as Charlotte Dunterry * '' One Night in Lisbon'' (1941) as Leonora Perrycoate * '' Bahama Passage'' (1941) as Carol Delbridge * '' My Favorite Blonde'' (1942) as Karen Bentley * '' White Cradle Inn'' (1947) as Magda * '' An Innocent Affair'' (1948) as Paula Doane * '' The Fan'' (1949) as Mrs. Erlynne

Radio appearances

References

External links

* * *
Madeleine Carroll biography and filmography at Screenonline.org.uk

BBC: ''Bid to honour film star war nurse''

Madeleine Carroll – Official Tribute Website

Photographs of Madeleine Carroll
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