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.
Known For
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1937)
Princess Flavia
The 39 Steps
(1935)
Pamela
Secret Agent
(1936)
Elsa Carrington
Full Filmography
Acting
The Guns of Loos
(1928)
Diana Cheswick
The First Born
(1928)
Lady Madeleine Boycott
Atlantic
(1929)
Monica
The American Prisoner
(1929)
Grace Malherb
The School for Scandal
(1930)
Lady Teazle
Kissing Cup's Race
(1930)
Lady Molly Adair
Escape!
(1930)
Dora
Instinct
(1930)
French Leave
(1930)
Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister
The Crooked Billet
(1930)
Joan Easton
Young Woodley
(1930)
Laura Simmons
The W Plan
(1930)
Rosa Hartmann
Madame Guillotine
(1931)
Lucille de Choisigne
The Written Law
(1931)
Lady Margaret Rochester
Fascination
(1931)
Gwenda Farrell
I Was A Spy
(1933)
Martha Cnockhaert
Sleeping Car
(1933)
Anne
The World Moves On
(1934)
Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
The Dictator
(1935)
Queen Caroline Matilde of Danmark
The 39 Steps
(1935)
Pamela
The General Died at Dawn
(1936)
Judy Perrie
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
(1936)
Hope Ames
The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
(1936)
The Introducer
Lloyd's of London
(1936)
Elizabeth Stacy
Secret Agent
(1936)
Elsa Carrington
It's All Yours
(1937)
Linda Gray
On the Avenue
(1937)
Mimi Caraway
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1937)
Princess Flavia
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
(1937)
Self (uncredited)
Blockade
(1938)
Norma
Cafe Society
(1939)
Christopher West
Honeymoon in Bali
(1939)
Gail Allen
Safari
(1940)
Linda Stewart
North West Mounted Police
(1940)
April Logan
My Son, My Son!
(1940)
Livia Vaynol
Virginia
(1941)
Charlotte Dunterry
Bahama Passage
(1941)
Carol Delbridge
One Night In Lisbon
(1941)
Leonora Pettycoate
My Favorite Blonde
(1942)
Karen Bentley
White Cradle Inn
(1947)
Magda
An Innocent Affair
(1948)
Paula Doane
The Fan
(1949)
Mrs. Erylnne
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
(1961)
'The Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
(1988)
Self (archive footage)