Madeleine Carroll

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Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress who appeared in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s.

She was the highest-paid actress 1938 at the height of her fame. Carroll is best known for her appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935).

She is also known for abandoning her acting career after her sister Marguerite's death in the London Blitz to dedicate herself to assist wounded servicemen and children who have been killed by the conflict.

Early life

Carroll was born on Herbert Street (now number 44) in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and the niece of John Carroll, an Irish professor of languages from County Limerick, and Helene, his French wife. She graduated from the University of Birmingham with a B.A. a degree in languages. She appeared in some productions for the Birmingham University Dramatic Society while studying at university. She was a French mistress at a girls' academy in Hove for a year.

Personal life

Colonel Philip Reginald Astley married Carroll in 1931, and the couple divorced in 1939. He was an estate agent, big-game hunter, and soldier. In 1941, she appeared in Virginia opposite Sterling Hayden. They married in 1946 and divorcing the following year. Carroll converted from acting to working in field hospitals as a Red Cross nurse after her only sister, Marguerite, was killed in the London Blitz of World War II. In 1943, she became a naturalized United States citizen, and in Foggia, Italy, where wounded airmen flying out of the area's air bases were hospitalized. She was given the rank of captain and the Medal of Freedom for her nursing service.

Carroll was among Spain's Costa Brava's first visitors in 1934. Castell Madeleine, her seaside home, was built in Calonge, where she bought an estate the following year. She was forbidden from living there by the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and so she migrated to Marbella in 1949. The home was later demolished, leaving one tower intact and one building standing in its place, as well as a naming change (Urbanización Castell Madeleine). Carroll donated another home of her own, a château she owned outside of Paris, to house more than 150 and fifty orphanages, and she arranged for groups of young people in California to knit clothing for them. In a RKO-Pathe News bulletin, she was filming children and employees wearing the donated clothing to thank those who contributed. For her work by France, she was given the Légion d'Honneur. Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower remarked in private that of all the movie stars he encountered in Europe during the war, he was most impressed with Carroll and Herbert Marshall (who worked with military amputees).

Carroll remained in Europe after the war, where she managed a radio station fostering French-American friendship and helped with the rehabilitation of concentration camp victims, where she met her future third husband, Henri Lavorel, during which she met her future third husband. In late 1946, she travelled to Switzerland for a short time to film White Cradle Inn (aka High Fury).

She and Lavorel formed a production company and produced several two-reel documentaries to promote peace, one of which, Children's Republic, was on display at the Cannes Film Festival. "Wars are launched at the top, but can be prevented at the bottom," Carroll said in the Christian Science Monitor, "if both men and women will rid themselves of mistrust and suspicion of what is foreign." It was shot in a small orphanage in Sèvres, just southwest of Paris, focusing on the destruction of children's lives in Europe caused by war. It was widely promoted in Canada and quickly became a key source of funds for the production of artificial limbs for wounded children.

Carroll and Lavorel returned to the United States in 1947 together with Lavorel. They had hoped to revive their acting career, which would fund their production company, but they soon parted. Carroll, who appeared in three more films before 1949 and his debut on Broadway in 1948, then mainly resigned from acting, although she did appear on television and radio until the mid-1960s.

Anne Madeleine was born in 1951, and she and Andrew Heiskell, the publisher of Life, married in 1950, and the couple had a daughter Anne Madeleine. In 1965, they divorced. Carroll had migrated to Paris by this time. She and her mother and her daughter later moved to Spain, where she and her mother shared an estate with her mother and her daughter. Her mother died in 1975 and her daughter died in 1983 after relocating to New York.

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Acting career

Carroll's father was against acting, but with her mother's help, she quit teaching and moved to London to look for stage work. She had won a beauty competition and found a job with Seymour Hicks' touring company, and had made her Broadway debut in 1927 in The Lash. She made her screen debut in The Guns of Loos in the first year and then appeared in The First Born, an Alma Reville script. Alfred Hitchcock, Reville's husband, was recalled at the time.

Carroll was the lead in her second film, What Money Can Buy (1928) with Humberston Wright. Miles Mander and her mother were both in attendance on The First Born (1928), which was also the first film to make her a star in films. Carroll moved to France to make Not So Stupid (1928). Both appeared in silent and sound versions of The Crooked Billet (1929) and The American Prisoner (1929). She appeared in Atlantic in 1930 and then co-starred with Brian Aherne in The W Plan (1930). In France, she was in Instinct (1930). Carroll appeared on stage in Basil Dean's The Constant Nymph, Mr Pickwick, Mr Pickwick (opposite Charles Laughton) and an adaptation of Beau Geste.

Carroll appeared in the turbulent Young Woodley (1930), later in a farce, French Leave (1930). She was instrumental in an early version of Escape (1930) and was the female lead in The School of Scandal (1930) and the Kissing Cup (1930). Carroll starred in Madame Guillotine (1931) with Aherne, then did another with Mander, Fascination (1931). She was in The Written Law (1931) and then signed a deal with Gaumont British for whom she made Sleeping Car (1932) with Ivor Novello.

I Was a Spy (1933), a big hit, and earned her the accolade for best actress of the year. Victor Saville produced it. Carroll appeared in the play Little Catherine as the title character. The first of four women announced plans to step away from films and devote herself to a private life with her husband, a sudden change. Carroll appeared in The World Moves On (1934) for Fox; John Ford directed and Franchot Tone costarred; and Franchot Tone costarred. She appeared in The Dictator (1935) for Saville, playing Caroline Matilda of Great Britain.

Carroll attracted Alfred Hitchcock's attention in 1935, where he appeared as one of the director's oldest prototypical cool, glib, and intelligent blondes in The 39 Steps. The film, based on John Buchan's espionage novel, became a hit, and Carroll followed it. Carroll, who was "charming and skillful," was praised by the New York Times for a performance that was "charming and skillful," and he was in high demand. As exemplified by Carroll, film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "Her Hitchcock heroines are exemplified by Carroll."

Carroll and her 39 Steps co-star Robert Donat were re-teaming Carroll with her 39 Steps co-star Robert Donat in Secret Agent, a spy drama based on a W. Somerset Maugham's spy drama. However, Donat's regular health issues intervened, resulting in a Carroll-John Gield pairing. In between the films, she produced a short film titled The Story of Papworth (1935).

Carroll was the first British beauty to be granted a major American film contract, much praised for international fame. In The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936), she accepted a lucrative contract with Paramount Pictures and appeared alongside George Brent. She continued with The General Died at Dawn (1936) and was loaned by 20th Century Fox to play the female lead in Lloyd's of London (1936), which made her a member of Tyrone Power. She stayed in the studio to make On the Avenue (1937), a musical starring Dick Powell and Alice Faye.

Carroll went to Columbia for It's All Yours (1937) then was played by David O. Selznick as Ronald Colman's love interest in the 1937 box-office's success The Prisoner of Zenda. Walter Wanger appeared in Blockade (1938) with Henry Fonda about the Spanish Civil War. Fred MacMurray (1939), and Honeymoon in Bali (1939), she made some comedies with her mother in Paramount. In My Son, My Son, Edward Small gave her the highest billing in My Son, My Son! Aherne (1940) - Aherne.

She appeared in Safari (1940) and then played against Gary Cooper in North West Mounted Police (1940), directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Carroll was sent by Paramount to face MacMurray in Virginia (1941) and One Night in Lisbon (1941). Sterling Hayden appeared in Bahama Passage (1941), and he was also a star of Virginia's Bahama Passage (1941). Carroll appeared in My Favorite Blonde (1942), Bob Hope's love interest.

Carroll appeared on NBC as a participant in The Circle (1939), a weekly broadcasting series of "current events, literature, and drama." She appeared on This Is the Story, an anthology collection dramatizing famous books on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1944. 332 Carroll played in the NBC soap opera The Affairs of Dr. Gentry (1957-59), at the end of radio's golden age. She was also one of a group of four actresses who flipped in taking the lead in each week's episode of The NBC Radio Theater (1959).

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Agatha Reed in Fay Kanin's Goodbye, My Fancy, 1948, was her first appearance on Broadway; she was later played by Joan Crawford in the 1951 film version.

After the war, Carroll returned to Britain. Inn (1947), she was living in White Cradle Inn. She returned to the United States and was reunited with MacMurray for An Innocent Affair (1948). The Fan (1949), her last film, was The Fan (1949).

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