Joan CarrollFilmography

The Gentle Touch

Actors: George Baker, Belinda Lee, Delphi Lawrence, Adrienne Corri, Henryetta Edwards

Synopsis: This British drama is a soft-pedalled paean to the nursing profession. The story takes place in a large hospital, where several aspiring nurses receive their training. Special attention is paid to novice nurse Pat (Delphi Lawrence), who is more concerned with landing a wealthy husband than Read More

Johnny, You're Wanted

Synopsis: In this thriller, a trucker offers a hitchhiking girl a lift and ends up careening out of control when he is later accused of killing her. He decides that the only way to clear his name is to launch his own investigation and in so doing finds himself up to his axles in intrigue. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Ghost Ship

Actors: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden, John Robinson, Joss Ambler

Synopsis: This waterlogged adaptation of an obscure Grand Guignol stage play finds a hapless couple (Dermot Walsh and Hazel Court) convinced that their newly-acquired yacht is haunted by mysterious and deadly forces. After numerous fatalities, the couple eventually hires a paranormal investigator (John Robinson Read More

The Dark Light

Synopsis: In this drama, bank robbers are exiled to an island off the English coast. They are caught in raging seas and would have died had not the two lighthouse keepers come to their aid. The crooks then try to persuade the keepers into letting them escape. It almost works. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Jack of Diamonds

Synopsis: In this adventure, a sneaky treasure hunter plans to steal a chest of diamonds belonging to someone else. To do so he leases a boat from a couple. The couple play an important role in foiling his nefarious plans. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Uneasy Terms

Actors: Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, Faith Brook, Joy Shelton, Patricia Goddard

Synopsis: Before detective Slim Callaghan (Michael Rennie) can meet with prospective client Col. Stenhurst, he gets drugged, is ordered not to take the case by the colonel's step-daughter, and finds Stenhurst's dead body. So, of course, Callaghan investigates for himself, accurately predicting that several Read More

The Bells of St. Mary's

Actors: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Ruth Donnelly, William Gargan, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: In this follow-up to director Leo McCarey's Going My Way (1944), Bing Crosby repeats his Oscar-winning characterization of happy-go-lucky priest Father O'Malley. The good father is sent to help out financially strapped St. Mary's Academy, a parochial school presided over by lovely nun Sister Read More

Tomorrow the World

Actors: Fredric March, Betty Field, Agnes Moorehead, Skip Homeier, Joan Carroll

Synopsis: 14-year-old Skip Homeier repeats his stage role as an unreconstructed Hitler Jugend in the film version of the James Gow/Arnaud D'Usseau stage play Tomorrow the World. A German orphan, Homeier is taken into the home of his American uncle (Fredric March), a gently liberal university professor. Read More

Champagne Charlie

Actors: Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Jean Kent, Austin Trevor

Synopsis: Champagne Charlie is a luxuriously produced tale of the 19th Century British music halls. Tommy Trinder stars as 1860s singer George Leybourne, better known as "Champagne Charlie" thanks to his most popular song and his highrolling lifestyle. The dramatic tension of the film is stoked by Read More

Meet Me in St. Louis

Actors: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main

Synopsis: Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM screenwriters, who hoped to find a throughline to connect the anecdotal tales. After several false starts (one of which proposed that the eldest Smith daughter be kidnapped and Read More

Petticoat Larceny

Actors: Ruth Warrick, Joan Carroll, Walter Reed, Wally Brown, Tom Kennedy

Synopsis: Best described as "cute," Petticoat Larceny was intended as a showcase for RKO Radio's latest juvenile discovery, 11-year-old Joan Carroll. The story concerns a bratty radio star (Carroll) who wants to inject some blood-and-thunder plotlines and gangster lingo into her broadcasts. To this end, she Read More

Obliging Young Lady

Actors: Joan Carroll, Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Warrick, Robert Smith, Eve Arden

Synopsis: The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget Potter. Little Bridget has been willingly "kidnapped" by secretary Linda Norton (Ruth Warrick), who hopes that the girl's disappearance will precipitate a reunion between Read More

Laddie

Actors: Joan Leslie, Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll, Spring Byington, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: 1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in 1935, was directed by no less than George Stevens). Tim Holt plays the title character, a good-natured Indiana farmer who falls in love with immigrant English girl Pamela (Virginia Gilmore Read More

The Primrose Path

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Miles Mander

Synopsis: In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen image by playing the daughter and granddaughter of prostitutes. Determined not to pursue the "family business", Ellie May Adams (Rogers) opts for respectability, as personified Read More

Anne of Windy Poplars

Actors: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Henry Travers, Patric Knowles, George "Slim" Summerville

Synopsis: This sequel to 1934's Anne of Green Gables stars Anne Shirley as Anne Shirley, the plucky Canadian orphan girl created by novelist Lucy Maude Montgomery. Now all grown up, Anne takes on the job of vice-principal of the only school in Windy Poplars Unfortunately, she must contend with the Read More

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

Actors: Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field, John Carradine, George Sanders

Synopsis: Japanese detective Mr. Moto finds himself hip-deep in international espionage in this adventure tale. In Port Said, a pair of rogues -- French-born Fabian (Ricardo Cortez) and Englishman Norvel (George Sanders) -- are working for a nameless foreign government and devise a scheme to sabotage French Read More

Barricade

Actors: Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, Keye Luke

Synopsis: The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of which was 20th Century-Fox's Barricade. While fleeing war-torn China by train, two Americans-singer Emmy Jordan (Alice Faye) and journalist Hank Topping (Warner Baxter)-are Read More

Walking Down Broadway

Actors: Claire Trevor, Phyllis Brooks, Leah Ray, Dixie Dunbar, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Not a remake of the 1932 Erich Von Stroheim film of the same name (which was ultimately released as Hello Sister), Walking Down Broadway owes more to the old Warner Bros. melodrama Three on a Match. The story concerns six Broadway chorus girls, who, when their latest show folds on New Years' Eve Read More

Lancer Spy

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, George Sanders, Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Field

Synopsis: Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an uncanny resemblance to the recently-captured Baron Kurt von Rohbach (also Sanders). Rohbach is highly connected in the German aristocracy, and his capture has been kept Read More

Two Sisters

Actors: Jenney Goldstein, Rebecca Weintraub

Synopsis: The Yiddish-language Two Sisters stars stage favorites Jenny Goldstein (in her film debut) and Sylvia Dell in the title roles. The story focuses on the ladies' rivalry over the affections of handsome doctor Muni Seroff. Goldstein at first seems to be the victor in this romantic triangle, winning Read More

One Mile from Heaven

Actors: Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas Fowley, Fredi Washington

Synopsis: Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy reporter Lucy "Tex" Warren (Claire Trevor) senses a big story in the plight of Flora Jackson (Fredi Washington), a young black woman who claims to be the mother of a white Read More