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 indescribable life, narrating her personal highs and lows, as well as her fervent commitment to helping others--particularly child victims of war.
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 indescribable life, narrating her personal highs and lows, as well as her fervent commitment to helping others--particularly child victims of war.
John Pascoe has been a researcher, writer and editor for British Steel, Arup and Electrocomponents. He is the holder of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) International Award of Excellence, STC Trans-European Award and CSI Honor Award for "outstanding achievement." He lives in the United Kingdom.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Act I-Star of British Stage and Screen One: The English Rose (1906-27) Two: Star of the Silent Screen (1928) Three: Stage Spectaculars (1929) Four: Star of the Talkies (1930) Five: Marriage (1931) Six: Pleasure Cruise (1932) Seven: Victor Saville (1933) Eight: Hollywood (1934) Nine: Alfred Hitchcock (1935) Act II-Hollywood and the European Theater of War Ten: The General Died at Dawn (1936) Eleven: The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) Twelve: United Artists, Then Paramount (1938) Thirteen: The Radio Star (1939) Fourteen: Technicolor (1940) Fifteen: The Airman or the Seaman (1941) Sixteen: Bob Hope's Favorite Blonde (1942) Seventeen: United Seamen's Service (1943) Eighteen: American Red Cross (1944-45) Act III-Broadway, Broadcasting and Building a Better World Nineteen: Love and Marriage (1946) Twenty: The Film Producer (1947) Twenty-One: The Broadway Star (1948) Twenty-Two: The Public Speaker (1949) Twenty-Three: The Television Pioneer (1950) Twenty-Four: Married Life (1951-56) Twenty-Five: The Radio Soap Star (1957-59) Twenty-Six: The Watershed (1960-63) Twenty-Seven: Beekman and Other Places (1964-86) The Final Curtain (1987) Filmography Stage Performances Selected Radio Performances Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Act I-Star of British Stage and Screen One: The English Rose (1906-27) Two: Star of the Silent Screen (1928) Three: Stage Spectaculars (1929) Four: Star of the Talkies (1930) Five: Marriage (1931) Six: Pleasure Cruise (1932) Seven: Victor Saville (1933) Eight: Hollywood (1934) Nine: Alfred Hitchcock (1935) Act II-Hollywood and the European Theater of War Ten: The General Died at Dawn (1936) Eleven: The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) Twelve: United Artists, Then Paramount (1938) Thirteen: The Radio Star (1939) Fourteen: Technicolor (1940) Fifteen: The Airman or the Seaman (1941) Sixteen: Bob Hope's Favorite Blonde (1942) Seventeen: United Seamen's Service (1943) Eighteen: American Red Cross (1944-45) Act III-Broadway, Broadcasting and Building a Better World Nineteen: Love and Marriage (1946) Twenty: The Film Producer (1947) Twenty-One: The Broadway Star (1948) Twenty-Two: The Public Speaker (1949) Twenty-Three: The Television Pioneer (1950) Twenty-Four: Married Life (1951-56) Twenty-Five: The Radio Soap Star (1957-59) Twenty-Six: The Watershed (1960-63) Twenty-Seven: Beekman and Other Places (1964-86) The Final Curtain (1987) Filmography Stage Performances Selected Radio Performances Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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