Madeleine Carroll: Actress and Humanitarian, from The 39 Steps to the Red Cross

by John Pascoe

At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the world's highest-paid actress. She worked alongside such greats as Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton, British directors Victor Saville and Alfred Hitchcock, and Hollywood directors John Ford and Otto Preminger. She also did radio and television shows--all of which she abandoned to become a Red Cross worker. Piecing together long-lost facts, the author describes Carroll's almost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476675465
• ISBN13: 9781476675466
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher