Madeleine Carroll

Movie Actress

Birthday February 26, 1906

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace England

DEATH DATE Oct 2, 1987 (81)

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About

She became one of the first English actresses to have a Hollywood career, and became the highest-paid actress in 1938.

Before Fame

She began modeling at the age of three.

Trivia

She starred in director Alfred Hitchcock's film 39 Steps.

Family Life

Her sister Marguerite died in 1940 in the Blitz.

Associated With

She made her career as one of Alfred Hitchcock's scream queens, a path mirrored by Janet Leigh, who starred in Psycho.