
Madeleine Carroll
Actor, Film actor
1906 – 1987
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Who was Madeleine Carroll?
Edith Madeleine Carroll 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.
Immortalized as the first of director Alfred Hitchcock's icy blonde heroines in The 39 Steps, she is also remembered 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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- Born
- Feb 26, 1906
West Bromwich - Also known as
- Edith Madeleine Carroll
- Marie-Madeleine Bernadette O'Carroll
- Madaleine Caroll
- The Queen of British Cinema
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Sterling Hayden
(1942/02/14 - 1946/05/08) - Philip Reginald Astley
(1931/08/26 - 1940) - Henri Lavorel
(1946 - 1949) - Andrew Heiskell
(1950 - 1965)
- Sterling Hayden
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Birmingham
- Died
- Oct 2, 1987
Marbella
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on July 23, 2013
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