Madeleine Carroll Filmography

The Fan

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: In this revised adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of manners, Lady Windermere's Fan, the middle-aged but still beautiful Mrs. Erlynne (Madeleine Carroll), well-known for her romantic adventures, has cast her eye upon Lord Windermere (Richard Greene), who is married to Lady Windermere (Jeanne Crain Read More

An Innocent Affair

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Rita Johnson, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: An Innocent Affair was the original release title for the tame marital comedy Don't Trust Your Husband. Making her first film appearance in six years, Madeleine Carroll plays Paula Doane, the wife of ad executive Vincent Doane (Fred MacMurray). For business reasons, Vincent is obliged to entertain Read More

High Fury

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Ian Hunter, Michael Rennie, Anne Marie Blanc, Michael McKeag

Synopsis: In this touching drama, set in the midst of the Swiss mountains, a philandering husband and his idealistic young wife battle it out for the rights to the White Cradle Inn, her familial estate. The man spends much of his time messing with a maid at the inn. His wife spends time helping the village Read More

My Favorite Blonde

Actors: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Victor Varconi, Lionel Royce

Synopsis: Each of Bob Hope's "My Favorite" films (My Favorite Blonde, My Favorite Brunette, My Favorite Spy) was, by accident or design, a parody of a dead-serious movie genre. 1942's My Favorite Blonde, for example, was a takeoff of Alfred Hitchcock in general and Hitchcock's 39 Steps in particular. Read More

Bahama Passage

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll, Mary Anderson

Synopsis: Bahama Passage is a leisurely bit of Technicolor exotica starring Madeleine Carroll and her future husband Sterling Hayden. Based on Nolson Hayes' novel Dildo Cay, the story takes place on a remote Bahaman island where the principal commodity-in fact, the only--is salt. The owner of the island is Read More

Virginia

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Helen Broderick, Carolyn Lee

Synopsis: If Selznick could make a Gone With the Wind, reasoned Paramount Pictures in 1941, anyone can. Paramount's own spin on Scarlet and Rhett was Virginia, starring British actress Madeleine Carroll as Southern belle Charlotte Dunterry. A first a showgirl, Charlotte arrives in Fairville, Virginia to Read More

One Night in Lisbon

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Billie Burke, John Loder

Synopsis: One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in Europe. While transporting American warplanes to the beleagured RAF, Texas flyboy Dwight Houston (Fred MacMurray) is caught in a London air raid. Scurrying to a shelter Read More

Safari

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Tullio Carminatti, Muriel Angelus, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: This studio-bound jungle yarn is uplifted by the spirited performances of its stars. After the death of her aviator lover, beautiful Linda Stewart (Madeleine Carroll) marries wealthy sportsman Baron de Courland (Tulio Carminati) on the rebound. When the Baron arrives in Africa for a hunting Read More

Northwest Mounted Police

Actors: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Preston S. Foster, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston

Synopsis: Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as Louis Riel (Francis J. McDonald) tries to organize Indians and French settlers into a fighting force that will battle against the ruling British, Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper Read More

My Son, My Son

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward, Laraine Day, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son (Louis Hayward) grows up spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him. The limit Read More

Honeymoon in Bali

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: My Love for Yours is the alternate title for Paramount's Honeymoon in Bali. Madeline Carroll pulls a "Rosalind Russell" as a hard-shelled businesswoman with no time for romance. Fred MacMurray is determined to melt down her resistance, hoping to do so during a vacation to Nassau. Carroll almost Read More

Cafe Society

Actors: Claude Gillingwater, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Paramount's Café Society applies a glossy new coat of paint to a wheezy old plotline. Madeleine Carroll plays a debutante named Christopher, who after a whirlwind courtship marries newspaper photographer Crick O'Banion (Fred MacMurray). But when Crick finds out that he's been rushed to the altar Read More

Blockade

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's forces didn't find much favor in Hollywood; this drama, produced by Walter Wanger, was one of the few films to deal with the conflict, albeit in watered-down terms. Marco (Henry Fonda Read More

On the Avenue

Actors: Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], George Barbier

Synopsis: Director Roy Del Ruth and singing star Dick Powell were raided from the Warner Bros. stables for this frothy musical comedy that features a wonderful collection of Irving Berlin songs, including "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and "Slumming on Park Avenue." Powell stars as Broadway impresario Read More

It's All Yours

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Francis Lederer, Mischa Auer, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: In this romance, a secretary is awarded a legacy. Later she meets a male secretary who begins protecting her from an avaricious baron endeavoring to steal her money. The two rivals engage in fisticuffs, and the secretary loses. Fortunately, he wins the love of the girl. He then reveals that his Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mary Astor, David Niven, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Ronald Colman stars in David O. Selznick's classic production of Anthony Hope's swashbuckling adventure. The film takes place in a mythical Central European kingdom with Colman in a dual role as King Rudolf V and Rudolph Rassendyl, a visitor from England who's a distant cousin to the prince. Read More

Lloyds of London

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of fictional 19th-century Londoner Jonathan Blake (Tyrone Power, in his first starring role). A lifelong friend of naval hero Lord Nelson, Blake puts his job (and the future Read More

The General Died at Dawn

Actors: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall

Synopsis: General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror. Yang is opposed by O'Hara (Gary Cooper), an American mercenary who fights on behalf of the peasants. When he is entrusted with a large sum of money to buy guns, O'Hara Read More

Secret Agent

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, Robert Young, Percy Marmont

Synopsis: Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along with The 39 Steps and Sabotage). Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie who discovers that a government agency has faked his own death. He is then Read More

The Case Against Mrs. Ames

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, George Brent, Arthur Treacher, Alan Baxter, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: When wealthy Mr. Ames is murdered, his beautiful wife Hope (Madeleine Carroll) is the principal suspect. She is acquitted through lack of evidence, but it's hardly a happy ending: her son Bobbie (Scotty Beckett) is taken away from her by spiteful relatives, who poison the boy's mind against her. Read More

The Dictator

Actors: Clive Brook, Madeleine Carroll, Emlyn Williams, Alfred Drayton, Nicholas Hannen

Synopsis: In this romantic costume drama, a man in the service of a king finds that falling in love with the queen can carry a high price. Struensee (Clive Brook) is a doctor from Hamburg who is called upon to treat Denmark's King Charles VII (Emlyn Williams) while the potentate visits Germany. The grateful Read More

Loves of a Dictator

Actors: Clive Brook, Madeleine Carroll, Emlyn Williams, Alfred Drayton, Nicholas Hannen

The 39 Steps

Actors: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Lucie Mannheim

Synopsis: This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later work. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a music hall Read More

I Was a Spy

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn, Herbert Marshall, Donald Calthrop, Gerald du Maurier

Synopsis: This story of espionage in World War I is based on a true story. Marthe McKenna (Madeleine Carroll) is a nurse from Belgium who uses her beauty and charm to serve her native land during the war. McKenna is able to ferret out secret information from German officers and pass it along to Allied Read More

The World Moves On

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Lumsden Hare, Raul Roulien, Reginald Denny, Dudley Digges

Synopsis: In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of two Louisiana families: The Girards, of French extraction, and the Warburtons, formerly of Manchester. Forming an alliance by marriage in 1825, the families rapidly corner the Read More

Sleeping Car

Actors: Ivor Novello, Madeleine Carroll, Kay Hammond

Synopsis: In this romance, a wealthy woman is duped by a charming conductor. Later she ends up using him so she can remain in France. In the end, the sparring partners fall in love for real. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Written Law

Synopsis: In this drama, a disillusioned wife prepares to leave her husband, a physician, after he loses his eyesight in an auto accident. Since the accident, she has found a new love. Unbeknownst to her, her husband's sight gradually returns. Still he feigns blindness so he can try and win her back. Read More

Madame Guillotine

Synopsis: This romance takes place during the French Revolution. The lovers are an aristocratic woman and a populist lawyer. At first she rejects him, but then marries him at the onset of the uprising. When her husband volunteers to be guillotined in her stead, the woman reveals her social standing and Read More

The "W" Plan

Actors: Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, Gibb McLaughlin, Gordon Harker, Cameron Carr

Synopsis: The time is WWI. British guerilla fighter Col. Duncan Grant (Brian Aherne) makes his way behind enemy lines to foil the Germans' plans to destroy those towns presently controlled by the Allied Expeditionary Forces. The Germans have planted a series of mines throughout the countryside, in a pattern Read More

Fascination

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Dorothy Bartlam, Carl Harbord, Kay Hammond, Kenneth Kove

Synopsis: The marriage between Larry and Vera Maitland (Carl Harbourd and Dorothy Bartlam) may be over before it begins when Larry falls for glamorous actress Gwenda Farrell (Madeleine Carroll). Rather than storm out of the house in high dudgeon, Vera opts for a more civilized approach. She visits Gwenda in Read More

French Leave

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Sydney Howard, Arthur Chesney, Haddon Mason, Henry Kendall

Synopsis: Madeleine Carroll plays a dual role "sort of" in the WWI comedy French Leave. When her husband Harry (Haddon Mason) marches off to the Front, Dorothy Glennister (Carroll) can't stand the idea of being separated from him. Sooooo, she sneaks into the French town where Harry is stationed and poses as Read More

Kissing Cup's Race

Synopsis: Financially strapped Stuart Rome sells all of his horses except one colt which goes on to win the big race giving him the needed capital to get back on his feet. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Young Woodley

Actors: Frank Lawton, Madeleine Carroll, Sam Livesey, Gerald Rawlinson

Synopsis: Based on the play by John Van Druten, Young Woodley stars Frank Lawton in the title role. An 18-year-old student, Woodley nearly throws away his future when he falls in love with Laura Simmons (Madeleine Carroll), the wife of his schoolmaster (Roger Livesey). The husband can't throw Woodley out of Read More

The Crooked Billet

Synopsis: In this espionage drama an international spy goes searching for secret papers hidden within an isolated inn. He is accompanied by various spies and detectives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape

Actors: Gerald du Maurier, Edna Best, Mabel Poulton, Madeleine Carroll, Gordon Harker

Synopsis: In this early talkie, Capt. Matt Denant (Gerald du Maurier) is a former war hero who intervenes when he sees a crooked detective threatening a woman on the street. Denant and the detective soon fall into a brawl, and the detective is accidentally killed. Sentenced to five years in prison at hard Read More

School for Scandal

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Basil Gill, Henry Hewitt, Ian Fleming, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's stage comedy The School for Scandal made theatrical history in 1777 as the first play to use an onstage prop (a dressing screen) as an important plot device. While this proved exciting to 18th-century audiences, the effect wasn't quite the same when the Sheridan play Read More

L'Instinct

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Leon Mathot

Atlantic

Actors: Franklin Dyall, Ellaline Terriss, Donald Calthrop, John Stuart, Madeleine Carroll

Synopsis: Nearly 70 years before James Cameron made the Titanic tragedy his own personal property, E. A. DuPont offered his own spectacular spin on the same story in the landmark early talkie Atlantic. Adhering to the classic three-act structure, the first portion of the film concentrates on the passengers Read More

The American Prisoner

Actors: Carl Brisson, Madeleine Carroll

Synopsis: This costume drama is set in the midst of a European war during the early 1800s and follows the exploits of a young woman who is forced to marry the wicked man who is threatening to make her father pay a major debt. One day, she meets a wounded fugitive, an American prisoner who was injured while Read More

Guns At Loose

Actors: Henry Victor, Madeleine Carroll

Synopsis: This British WWI drama was directed by Sinclair Hill, who also penned the original screenplay. Henry Victor stars as John Grimlaw, a ruthless armaments manufacturer. Grimlaw is in love with Diana (Madeline Carroll, in her film debut), while she in turn is partial to Clive (Donald McArdle), an army Read More

The First Born