Madeleine Carroll

Edith Madeleine Carroll was an EnglishAmerican 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 was born at Herbert Street in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, daughter of John Carroll, an Irish professor of languages from Co. Limerick, and Helene, his French wife. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, with a B.A. degree. She once taught in a girls public school.

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