Nancy CarrollFilmography

There Goes My Heart

Actors: Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Alan Mowbray, Nancy Carroll

Synopsis: Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered young lady is given a crash course in pragmatism by her worldly roommates Patsy Kelly and Nancy Carroll. Reporter Fredric March learns of Bruce's ruse and plans to tell all Read More

After the Dance

Actors: Nancy Carroll, George Murphy, Thelma Todd, Jack LaRue, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: In this tuneful crime drama, a falsely convicted man escapes from prison and hides out with a comely chorine. She discovers that he has talent and the two become a popular dancing team. Their fast ascent to stardom is stopped in its tracks when the dancer's jealous ex-partner turns the fugitive Read More

Atlantic Adventure

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Langdon, Arthur Hohl, Robert Middlemass

Synopsis: Having fallen from grace at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll retreated to Columbia Pictures, known in 1935 as "the Port of Missing Stars." Though Carroll does no singing in Columbia's Atlantic Adventure, she is still a charming and delightful screen presence. The actress is cast as Read More

I'll Love You Always

Actors: Nancy Carroll, George Murphy, Raymond Walburn, Jean Dixon, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: The marital strife of a newlywed couple is chronicled in this drama. The couple, and engineer and a former actress, have just barely ended their honeymoon when the troubles begin. When she finds herself pregnant, the troubled wife keeps it to herself. At the same time, her husband has become a Read More

Jealousy

Actors: Nancy Carroll, George Murphy, Donald Cook, Raymond Walburn, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry. The jealousy resurfaces when he finds his wife and her boss in a hotel room. He goes mad with rage and kills her boss. His wife is blamed for the killing. Just before the Read More

Springtime for Henry

Actors: Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the Read More

The Broken Melody

Synopsis: In this interesting drama, an opera singer, falsely convicted of murdering his wife's lover, must escape from Devil's Island. His success inspires him to write an opera. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

Actors: Gene Raymond, Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll, Sydney Howard, Mitzi Green

Synopsis: While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery among a buffet of romance, music, trickery and blackmail--ornamented with a few musical numbers. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Woman Accused

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Norma Mitchell

Synopsis: On the eve of her marriage to Cary Grant, socialite Nancy Carroll is visited by her sadistic ex-lover Louis Calhern, who threatens to have his gangster pal Jack LaRue rub out Grant if Carroll doesn't give up her marriage plans. She responds by killing Calhern with a piece of statuary; a Read More

I Love That Man

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Lew Cody, Robert Armstrong, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive gambling problem. Unfortunately, he is killed by two crooks whom he bilked. Just before he dies, he marries his loyal girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Kiss Before the Mirror

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart, Jean Dixon

Synopsis: Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend begins to doubt his own. Dr. Paul Held (Frank Morgan) is an attorney who has been asked to come to the aid of his old friend Walter Bernsdorf (Paul Lukas); Bernsdorf has been Read More

Child of Manhattan

Actors: Buck Jones, Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Warburton Gamble, Clara Blandick, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: On the outs at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll was "punished" by being sent to Columbia for the lachrymose Child of Manhattan. Carroll plays a dance-hall girl who falls hard for wealthy John Boles. Marriage is out of the question until she becomes pregnant. After losing her baby, Carroll Read More

Scarlet Dawn

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Nancy Carroll, Earl Foxe, Lilyan Tashman, Sheila Terry

Synopsis: The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid, escapes from his homeland to Constantinople where the two marry and begin a new life as commoners. But though it seemed a good idea at the time, the aristocrat has trouble Read More

Broken Lullaby

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis:
Director Ernst Lubitsch gained international acclaim for his sophisticated romantic comedies, but he also had a talent for more serious themes, as evidenced by this 1932 drama. French musician Paul (Phillips Holmes) joined the Army at the height of WWI. On the field of battle, Paul shot and Read More

Wayward

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Pauline Frederick, John Litel

Synopsis: In this drama, a rich man's wife finds herself victimized by her cruel mother-in-law who doesn't think the girl is good enough for her son. Not only does she try to destroy their marriage, the meddlesome mom also tries to steal their baby. The wife takes the baby and flees. In the end, the couple Read More

Under Cover Man

Actors: George Raft, Nancy Carroll, Roscoe Karns, Gregory Ratoff, Lew Cody

Synopsis: In his first starring role, George Raft plays Nick Darrow, a fence convinced by the police to go undercover after his father is killed in a Wall Street heist. Teaming up with Lora Madigan (Nancy Carroll), yet another victim of the gang, Nick gets close to the gang boss, Mason (Lew Cody), and his Read More

Hot Saturday

Actors: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods, Lillian Bond

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a socialite has an argument with her sweetie and decides to exact revenge by spending the whole day, and much of the night with a notorious playboy. It is all innocent, but unfortunately, gossip ensues and she loses her job. Things get worse when the scandal gets back to Read More

The Night Angel

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth, Alan Hale

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until her mother is released. When the happy day comes, he goes to visit them, but is attacked by the doorman, who is in love with the daughter and Read More

Personal Maid

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Pat O'Brien, Gene Raymond, Hugh O'Connell, Mary Boland

Synopsis: In this drama, a humble Irish lass from New York City's East Side, dreams of ascending the social ladder to escape her tumultuous family life. She attempts to live her dream by becoming a servant in upscale homes. Soon she finds that wealthy families are just as troubled as her own. Fortunately Read More

Stolen Heaven

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louis Calhern, Edward Keane

Synopsis: Nancy Carroll's popularity enabled her to survive the melodramatic excesses of Stolen Heaven with little if any damage to her career. Carroll plays Mary, the streetwalker sweetheart of born-loser Joe (Phillips Holmes). Engineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to spend all the Read More

Honey

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Stanley Smith, Lillian Roth, Harry Green

Synopsis: The 1916 Alice Duer Miller play Come Out of the Kitchen, previously filmed in 1921 with Marguerite Clark, was expertly transformed into early musical Honey. The story takes place in a poverty-stricken Virginia household, where blue-blooded brother and sister Olivia and Charles Dangerfield (Nancy Carroll Read More

The Devil's Holiday

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Hobart Bosworth, Ned Sparks

Synopsis: Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a manicurist who woos and weds wealthy Phillips Holmes. She tells herself that she harbors no mercenary notions, but when Holmes' family offers to buy her off if she'll leave, Carroll Read More

Dangerous Paradise

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an island resort, is pressured to make herself available to its male visitors. She flees and hides in a skiff belonging to the reclusive Heyst (Richard Arlen), who is said to Read More

Follow Thru

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal, Jack Haley, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the attempts of a handsome golfer to teach a young woman how to play the game. This causes her gossipy rival to start a string of vicious rumors about the two. It seems that her rival Read More

Laughter

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Glenn Anders, Dione Ellis

Synopsis: Laughter is a sophisticated romantic comedy belying the "fact" that most early talkies were stiff and dull. Nancy Carroll plays a Follies dancer who meets her goal of marrying a millionaire (Frank Morgan). Alas, her husband is a well-meaning bore, and soon Nancy begins seeking entertainment Read More

Paramount on Parade

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, William Austin, Clara Bow, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft

Synopsis: Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of practically everyone on the Paramount Pictures payroll. Under the supervision of British musical-comedy favorite Elsie Janis, 11 top directors contributed to the project: Dorothy Arzner Read More

Close Harmony

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Harry Green, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his courage and decides to break into show business with his little band. The bandleader must work hard to inspire his musicians. He does. Musical numbers abound. Songs include Read More

Sweetie

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Stanley Smith, Jack Oakie, William Austin

Synopsis: In this college-campus musical, a Broadway star finds herself the proud owner of a North Carolina college. The star's boy friend attends the school where he is a big football hero. The trouble begins when the star begins trying to convince the young man to forget about school and elope with her Read More

The Dance of Life

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Hal Skelly, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent back-stage melodrama. He celebrates his stardom with a few drinks. Unfortunately, this leads to alcoholism and carousing with other women causing his wife to eventually leave Read More

Illusion

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act. Offstage, Carlee thrives as a solo, performing various bits of sleight-of-hand at fancy society parties. At one such function, he falls in love with Hilt (June Collyer), the Read More

The Wolf of Wall Street

Actors: Olga Baclanova, Nancy Carroll, Paul Lukas, Arthur Rankin, George Bancroft

Synopsis: The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut. George Bancroft stars as ruthless stock manipulator Jim Bradford, who plays his customers for suckers and laughs all the way to the bank. Cornering the copper market at the Read More

The Sin Sister

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Lawrence Gray, Josephine Dunn, Myrtle Stedman, Anders Randolf

Synopsis: The first of Nancy Carroll's talkie films for Paramount had already been released when Fox's silent Sin Sister was taken off the shelf. Carroll is cast as Pearl, a vaudeville dancer stranded somewhere in Alaska. With no local Equity office in the vicinity, Pearl is obliged to accept the Read More

The Water Hole

Actors: Jack Holt, Nancy Carroll, John Boles

Synopsis: Based on Zane Grey's 1905 Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern socialite vamping Arizona rancher Philip Randolph Jack Holt, in town to discuss business with her father (C. Montague Shaw). When the smitten young man proposes, he Read More

Chicken a La King

Actors: Nancy Carroll, George Meeker, Arthur Stone, Ford Sterling, Carol Holloway

Synopsis: Chicken a la King was based on Mr. Romeo, a play by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. When his brother-in-law Oscar Barrows (Arthur Stone) announces his plans to marry chorus girl Maisie DeVoe (Nancy Carroll), priggish Horace Trundle (Ford Sterling) is aghast. How can Oscar throw his life away on a girl who Read More

Easy Come, Easy Go

Actors: Richard Dix, Nancy Carroll, Charles Sellon, Frank Currier, Arnold Kent

Synopsis: Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from Read More

Aaron Slick

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Jean Hersholt, Nancy Carroll, John Farrell MacDonald, Bernard Gorcey

Synopsis: Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans and wails of the critics (notably Robert Benchley, who turned his weekly drubbing of the play into an art form), the Nichols piece ended up as one of the longest-running Read More

The Shopworn Angel

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas

Synopsis: Shopworn Angel was the first of three film versions of the Dana Burnet short story Private Pettigrew's Girl. Nancy Carroll stars as footloose cabaret entertainer Daisy Heath, who is totally oblivious to world affairs until she sees a parade of soldiers marching off to WWI. Later on, she Read More

Manhattan Cocktail

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Danny O'Shea, Paul Lukas, Lilyan Tashman

Synopsis: Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly Read More

Ladies Must Dress

Actors: Virginia Valli, Lawrence Gray, Hallam Cooley, Nancy Carroll, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: Victor Heerman wore two creative hats during the filming of Ladies Must Dress; not only did he direct the picture, but he also dreamed up the storyline. Virginia Valli stars as Eve, the plain-Jane secretary of George Ward Jr. (Lawrence Grey). Secretly in love with her boss, Eve can only sit on the Read More