Madeleine Carroll

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.

Edith Madeleine Carroll (West Bromwich, 26 de febrer de 1906 - Marbella, 2 d'octubre de 1987) va ser una actriu britànica, molt popular en les dècades de 1930 i 1940. Va ser reconeguda com una de les més belles actrius cinematogràfiques. Carroll va ser la primera estrella britànica en rebre un contracte d'importància als Estats Units, acceptant un lucratiu acord amb Paramount Pictures.