Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum.Ī sequel, Rupert of Hentzau, was published in 1898 and is included in some editions of The Prisoner of Zenda. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. The Prisoner of Zenda is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. ↑ Mother's named given as Halve De Roziere Tuaillon.Frontispiece to the 1898 Macmillan Publishers edition, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.↑ Died 07/Oct/1940 aged 33 during a German air raid on London.Died 07/May/1980 in Malaga, Spain, aged 100. Died 05/Aug/1953 at Farnborough Hospital. ↑ Birth registered Q1 1906 West Bromich.↑ It's uncertain if Carroll actually wrote the column, which ran for 2 years, or if it was ghost-written by a writer employed by Gainsborough Pictures.died 02/Oct/1987 aged 81 from pancreatic cancer in Marbella, Spain.married 1950 to Andrew Heiskell (divorced 1965).married 1946 to Henri Lavorel (divorced 1949).married 14/Feb/1942 to American actor Stirling Walter Hayden in New Hampshire (divorced 1946).married 26/Aug/1931 to Captain Philip Reginald Astley at Lake Como, Italy (divorced 1940).sister of Marguerite Maria Carroll (b.1873) and his French wife Helene Tuaillon (b. daughter of Irish-born teacher John Carroll (b.born Edith Madeleine Carroll on 26/Feb/1906 at 32 Herbert Street, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England.Images from the Hitchcock Gallery (click to view larger versions or search for all relevant images). Selection of film frames: Madeleine Carroll (click image to view larger version or refresh thumbnails). The 39 Steps (CBS Philip Morris Playhouse, 21/May/1943) - cast.Secret Agent (1936) - cast: Elsa Carrington.She appeared in two Alfred Hitchcock films, The 39 Steps (1935) and Secret Agent (1936), as well as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), One Night in Lisbon (1941) and My Favourite Blonde (1942) alongside Bob Hope.įollowing the divorce of her fourth husband in 1965, she retired from acting and spent the rest of her life living in Paris and then Spain.Ĭarroll died from pancreatic cancer, aged 81. By the end of the decade, she was reportedly the highest paid British actress. She married Captain Philip Astley of the Kings Guard's in August 1931 at a ceremony by Lake Como and spent much of 1932 in away from acting before returning to the screen the following year. By the end of 1928, she had starred alongside Miles Mander in The First Born, written by Alma Reville, and had become acquainted with Reville's husband, Alfred Hitchcock.Ĭarroll successfully transitioned into talking films and, at the start of 1931, her syndicated " Health and Beauty Talks" column appeared in several British newspapers. in French from from the University of Birmingham in the mid-1920s and, for a brief period, taught French at a girls' school in Hove, Brighton.įollowing a move to London, she became a stage actress in 1927 and quickly moved into films, taking a role in The Guns of Loos 1928. Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987) was a British actress, who achieved considerable fame in the 1930s and 1940s.īorn Edith Madeleine Carroll in West Bromwich, Carroll graduated with a B.A.