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

ISBN-13: 9781476675466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

John Pascoe

Opis

At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the world's highest-paid actress. 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.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments ix
• Preface 1
• Introduction 3
• Act I—Star of British Stage and Screen 5
• One: The English Rose (1906–27) 5
• Two: Star of the Silent Screen (1928) 12
• Three: Stage Spectaculars (1929) 18
• Four: Star of the Talkies (1930) 24
• Five: Marriage (1931) 37
• Six: Pleasure Cruise (1932) 43
• Seven: Victor Saville (1933) 47
• Eight: Hollywood (1934) 53
• Nine: Alfred Hitchcock (1935) 64
• Act II—Hollywood and the European Theater of War 75
• Ten: The General Died at Dawn (1936) 75
• Eleven: The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) 86
• Twelve: United Artists, Then Paramount (1938) 93
• Thirteen: The Radio Star (1939) 99
• Fourteen: Technicolor (1940) 111
• Fifteen: The Airman or the Seaman (1941) 125
• Sixteen: Bob Hope's Favorite Blonde (1942) 131
• Seventeen: United Seamen's Service (1943) 136
• Eighteen: American Red Cross (1944–45) 142
• Act III—Broadway, Broadcasting and Building a Better World 151
• Nineteen: Love and Marriage (1946) 151
• Twenty: The Film Producer (1947) 157
• ­Twenty-One: The Broadway Star (1948) 159
• ­Twenty-Two: The Public Speaker (1949) 164
• ­Twenty-Three: The Television Pioneer (1950) 171
• ­Twenty-Four: Married Life (1951–56) 174
• ­Twenty-Five: The Radio Soap Star (1957–59) 183
• ­Twenty-Six: The Watershed (1960–63) 187
• ­Twenty-Seven: Beekman and Other Places (1964–86) 192
• The Final Curtain (1987) 203
• Filmography 205
• Stage Performances 212
• Selected Radio Performances 216
• Chapter Notes 219
• Bibliography 227
• Index 231