1. Madeleine Carroll is noted for largely 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 or maimed by the war.
37 Facts About Madeleine Carroll
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Madeleine Carroll was awarded both the Legion d'Honneur and the Medal of Freedom for her work with the Red Cross.
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Madeleine Carroll was born at 32 Herbert Street in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, daughter of John O'Madeleine Carroll, an Irish professor of languages from County Limerick, and Helene, his French wife.
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Madeleine Carroll was a French mistress at a girls' school in Hove for a year.
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Madeleine 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.
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Madeleine Carroll had won a beauty contest, and got a job in Seymour Hicks' touring company, making her stage debut in 1927 in The Lash.
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Madeleine Carroll was the lead in her second film, What Money Can Buy with Humberston Wright.
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Madeleine Carroll followed it with The First Born with Miles Mander, which really established her in films.
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Madeleine Carroll went to France to make Not So Stupid.
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On stage, Madeleine Carroll appeared in The Roof for Basil Dean, The Constant Nymph, Mr Pickwick and an adaptation of Beau Geste.
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Madeleine Carroll had a support role in an early adaptation of Escape and was the female lead in The School for Scandal and Kissing Cup's Race.
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Madeleine Carroll starred as a French aristocrat in Madame Guillotine with Aherne, then did another with Mander, Fascination.
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Madeleine Carroll was in The Written Law, then signed a contract with Gaumont British for whom she made Sleeping Car with Ivor Novello.
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Madeleine Carroll had a big hit with I Was a Spy, which won her an award as best actress of the year.
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Madeleine Carroll played the title role in the play Little Catherine.
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Madeleine Carroll went to Hollywood to appear in The World Moves On for Fox; John Ford directed and Franchot Tone co starred.
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Madeleine Carroll attracted the attention of Alfred Hitchcock and in 1935 starred as the director's earliest prototypical cool, glib, intelligent blonde in The 39 Steps.
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Madeleine Carroll accepted a lucrative deal with Paramount Pictures and was cast opposite George Brent in The Case Against Mrs Ames.
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Madeleine Carroll followed this with The General Died at Dawn, and was borrowed by 20th Century Fox to play the female lead in Lloyd's of London which made a star of Tyrone Power.
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Madeleine Carroll went to Columbia for It's All Yours then was cast by David O Selznick as Ronald Colman's love interest in the 1937 box-office success The Prisoner of Zenda.
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Madeleine Carroll starred in Safari then played against Gary Cooper in North West Mounted Police, directed by Cecil B DeMille.
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Madeleine Carroll was Bob Hope's love interest in My Favorite Blonde.
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On radio, Madeleine Carroll was a participant in The Circle on NBC, discussing "current events, literature and drama" each week.
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At the tail end of radio's golden age, Madeleine Carroll starred in the NBC soap opera The Affairs of Dr Gentry.
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Madeleine Carroll was one of a group of four stars who rotated in taking the lead in each week's episode of The NBC Radio Theater.
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Madeleine Carroll went back to the US and was reunited with MacMurray for An Innocent Affair.
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In 1946, Madeleine Carroll was awarded France's Legion of Honour for her overseas work, during World War II, liaising between the forces of the United States Army and the French Resistance, and her post-war fostering of amity between France and the United States.
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Madeleine Carroll married her first husband, Colonel Philip Reginald Astley, in 1931; they divorced in 1939.
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Madeleine Carroll was an estate agent, big-game hunter and soldier.
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Madeleine Carroll earned the rank of captain and received the Medal of Freedom for her nursing service.
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Madeleine Carroll was prevented from living there by the Spanish Civil War and World War II and moved to Marbella in 1949.
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Madeleine Carroll was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for her efforts by France.
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In 1947, Madeleine Carroll returned to the United States together with Lavorel.
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Madeleine Carroll married Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life, in 1950, and they had a daughter Anne Madeleine in 1951.
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Madeleine Carroll later moved to Spain, where she shared an estate with her mother and her daughter.
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Madeleine Carroll's mother died in 1975 and her daughter, having relocated to New York, died in 1983.
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Madeleine Carroll died on 2 October 1987, aged 81, in Marbella, Spain, from pancreatic cancer and is buried in the cemetery of Sant Antoni de Calonge in Catalonia.