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Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was an English actress. Carroll was popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world’s highest-paid actress. Her was a two-time Alfred Hitchcock leading lady. Her IMDb page shows 48 acting credits from 1928 to 1958. This page will rank Madeleine Carroll movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition. Her movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
Madeleine Carroll Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1937 | The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) |  |
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| 1942 | My Favorite Blonde (1942) |  |
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| 1936 | Lloyds of London (1936) | |
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| 1937 | On the Avenue (1937) | |
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| 1936 | The General Died at Dawn (1936) | |
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| 1940 | North West Mounted Police (1940) | |
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| 1939 | Cafe Society (1939) |  |
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| 1939 | Honeymoon in Bali (1939) | |
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| 1940 | Safari (1940) |  |
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| 1935 | The 39 Steps (1935) | |
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| 1940 | My Son, My Son! (1940) | |
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| 1938 | Blockade (1938) | |
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| 1936 | The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936) |  |
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| 1936 | Secret Agent (1936) | |
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| 1941 | Virginia (1941) | |
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| 1948 | An Innocent Affair (1948) | |
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| 1941 | Bahama Passage (1941) | |
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| 1933 | I Was A Spy (1933) | |
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| 1949 | The Fan (1949) | |
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| 1947 | High Fury (1947) | |
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| 1937 | It's All Yours (1937) | |
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| 1934 | The World Moves On (1934) |  |
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| 1935 | Loves Of A Dictator (1935) | |
Madeleine Carroll Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
- Sort Madeleine Carroll movies by her co-stars
- Sort Madeleine Carroll movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Madeleine Carroll movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Madeleine Carroll movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Madeleine Carroll movie received.
- Sort Madeleine Carroll movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) | David Niven & Ronald Colman |
5.60 | 232.2 | 232.2 | 14 | 82 | 02 / 00 | 98.0 | |
| 2 | My Favorite Blonde (1942) | Bob Hope | 7.10 | 265.5 | 265.5 | 19 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 97.3 | |
| 3 | Lloyds of London (1936) | Tyrone Power & George Sanders |
6.70 | 287.5 | 287.5 | 5 | 64 | 02 / 00 | 93.9 | |
| 4 | On the Avenue (1937) | Dick Powell & Alice Faye |
5.20 | 215.6 | 215.6 | 17 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 93.1 | |
| 5 | The General Died at Dawn (1936) | Gary Cooper | 4.50 | 193.3 | 193.3 | 24 | 62 | 03 / 00 | 93.0 | |
| 6 | North West Mounted Police (1940) | Gary Cooper & Directed by Cecil B. DeMille |
4.30 | 165.0 | 165.0 | 28 | 65 | 05 / 01 | 92.0 | |
| 7 | Cafe Society (1939) | Fred MacMurray | 3.90 | 149.0 | 149.0 | 49 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 89.4 | |
| 8 | Honeymoon in Bali (1939) | Fred MacMurray | 2.90 | 111.7 | 111.7 | 81 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 82.9 | |
| 9 | Safari (1940) | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | 2.20 | 85.0 | 85.0 | 90 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 78.5 | |
| 10 | The 39 Steps (1935) | Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll |
0.70 | 30.2 | 30.2 | 171 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 75.3 | |
| 11 | My Son, My Son! (1940) | Brian Aherne | 1.70 | 65.4 | 65.4 | 122 | 65 | 01 / 00 | 74.2 | |
| 12 | Blockade (1938) | Henry Fonda & Walter Wanger |
1.90 | 77.5 | 150.1 | 121 | 58 | 02 / 00 | 72.5 | |
| 13 | The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936) | George Brent | 1.10 | 48.8 | 48.8 | 137 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 68.0 | |
| 14 | Secret Agent (1936) | Robert Young & Directed by Alfred Hitchcock |
1.00 | 43.4 | 43.4 | 144 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 67.0 | |
| 15 | Virginia (1941) | Fred MacMurray & Sterling Hayden |
1.30 | 49.0 | 49.0 | 159 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 66.7 | |
| 17 | An Innocent Affair (1948) | Fred MacMurray | 2.60 | 70.9 | 70.9 | 114 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 66.7 | |
| 16 | Bahama Passage (1941) | Dorothy Dandridge & Sterling Hayden |
1.30 | 51.4 | 51.4 | 154 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 66.4 | |
| 18 | I Was A Spy (1933) | Herbert Marshall | 0.10 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 191 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 61.4 | |
| 19 | The Fan (1949) | George Sanders & Jeanne Crain |
1.10 | 26.8 | 26.8 | 180 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 56.7 | |
| 20 | High Fury (1947) | Michael Rennie | 0.90 | 27.2 | 27.2 | 164 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 56.2 | |
| 21 | It's All Yours (1937) | Francis Lederer | 0.70 | 30.7 | 30.7 | 187 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 54.7 | |
| 23 | The World Moves On (1934) | Franchot Tone | 1.30 | 59.3 | 59.3 | 92 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 44.9 | |
| 22 | Loves Of A Dictator (1935) | Clive Brook | 0.10 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 213 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 41.7 |
Check out Madeleine Carroll‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
I saw The 39 Steps in 1979 at the Regency Revival theater with The Lady Vanishes. It was part of a British Film program (programs usually lasted say 2 1/2 months). I saw her in On the Avenue there too, as part of a 20th Century Fox salute. Madeleine was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000. These are the actors on the 2020 list she appeared with.
18 JOHN GIELGUD Secret Agent (1936)
98 DAVID NIVEN The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
126 HENRY FONDA Blockade (1938)
509 AKIM TAMIROFF Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
509 AKIM TAMIROFF North West Mounted Police (1940)
509 AKIM TAMIROFF The General Died at Dawn (1936)
628 GEORGE SANDERS Lloyd’s of London (1936)
628 GEORGE SANDERS The Fan (1949)
727 ROBERT RYAN North West Mounted Police (1940)
788 MARCEL DALIO One Night in Lisbon (1941)
915 STERLING HAYDEN Bahama Passage (1941)
915 STERLING HAYDEN Virginia (1941)
991 LILLI PALMER Secret Agent (1936)
Madeleine appeared with 12 Oscar winners.
BING CROSBY My Favorite Blonde (1942)
DAVID NIVEN The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
EDMUND GWENN I Was a Spy (1933)
EDMUND GWENN One Night in Lisbon (1941)
GALE SONDERGAARD MY FAVORITE BLONDE (1942)
GARY COOPER North West Mounted Police (1940)
GARY COOPER The General Died at Dawn (1936)
GEORGE SANDERS Lloyd’s of London (1936)
GEORGE SANDERS The Fan (1949)
HENRY FONDA Blockade (1938)
JOHN GIELGUD Secret Agent (1936)
MARY ASTOR The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
PEGGY ASHCROFT The 39 Steps (1935)
ROBERT DONAT The 39 Steps (1935)
RONALD COLMAN The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Madeleine and Fred MacMurray played romantic partners in 5 films at Paramount.
Hey Dan
1. As always…..thank you.
2. Cool that you saw The 39 Steps in theaters.
3. Even cooler that they had a British Film program…nothing like that around here.
4. Not surprised that she was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000.
5. Small, but interesting trivia lists…..with a solid group of movie legends.
Good stuff as always.
I have seen 4 Madeleine Carroll movies.
Three are favourites:
The 39 Steps
The Prisoner of Zenda
Secret Agent
The other film I have seen is North West Mounted Police.
Hey Flora. Thanks for the thoughts on Madeleine Carroll. Tally count: Steve 6, you and Bob at 4, and me at 3. I have seen two of the four you have seen: 39 Steps and The Prisoner of Zenda. North West Mounted Police is a movie I have heard of for a very long time, but have not seen. Good stuff as always.
Madeleine Carroll was a bit before my time [and that’s saying something!] and when I started watching movies I tended to confuse her with France’s Martine Carol. I paid quite a lot of attention to Martine in the 1950s though her remaining career at that point was relatively short as she sadly died prematurely in 1967 of a heart attack aged 46.
Martine drew my attention by appearing in saucy [for those days] continental movies that I wasn’t allowed in to see in two of which she played the notorious Lucrezia Borgia [spelt Lucrece in the film title]and Madame Du Barry the last mistress of Louis XV of France
I did get to watch Martine though in TWO English Language movies: Action of the Tiger with Van Johnson and Ten Seconds to Hell with one of my great 1950s B movie idols Jeff Chandler.
I actually saw Madeleine in FOUR films: North West Mounted Police/The Prisoner of Zenda/ My Favourite Blonde and of course 39 Steps. I do wish I had seen her in 1941’s Virginia!
As WH’s 78% review rating suggests Hitch’s 39 Steps is a solid vehicle; but for my money not even the Master of Suspense directing the graphics is as thrilling as John Buchan’s book with its notorious “The Man who could Hood his eyes like a Hawk”. There are of course some very entertaining books being written today as well!!
This new page is “Voted Up!” for invoking in me certain memories of yesteryear and I also like the way that these days the Work Horse is blending his new profiles of modern thespians with those of long ago. A good balance which should have something for almost everybody.
Hey Bob. Thanks for the feedback on Madeleine Carroll. Tally count: Steve 6, Flora and you at 4, and yours truly 3. I admit I have never heard of Martine Carol, so thanks for enlightening me. I have seen two of the four you have seen: 39 Steps and The Prisoner of Zenda. Glad you have been reading “very entertaining books” lately. Glad you like our mix of current and classic pages. Great feedback.
HI BIG BOY Thanks for the feedback. Martine Carol’s career outside her European continental movies never took off. Apart from the two ‘mainstream’ films that I have mentioned I can find reference to her being in just one other American film: 1956’s blockbuster Around the World in 80 days in which she had a cameo.
The Van Johnson movie [1957’s Action of the Tiger] that I saw her in was on the lower half of a double bill over here with the main feature being Ray Milland’s 1958 The Safecracker.
Whilst both those movies were big flops in the States they each turned a tiny profit overall because of more solid overseas grosses and very low budgets. In the money of that time Safecracker was made for under half a million dollars and Action of the Tiger for under $800,000.
Their net profits were respectively $60,000 and $25,000. Those small profits would hardly have interested Lucas/Spielberg or the Gimme Mores and certainly wouldn’t have paid Brando’s salary; but as one producer said “They were “at least better than a kick in the ***!”
Had she been more successful in a timely way in Hollywood Martine would have made an ideal Hitchcock Blonde and was certainly sexy enough for The Master of Suspense to consider worthy of his movies. Check it out for yourself from her current photo on Wikipedia.
You will see from my posts to Steve today that I am taking a break for a few weeks. I am getting withdrawal symptoms from the absence of holidays this years and would like to be once again reminded of what it’s like to live like a Virginian or a Mancunian.
I’ve seen 6 of the 23 films on the chart. Favorites are – The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, The Prisoner of Zenda and My Favorite Blonde.
I’ve also seen Lloyds of London and North West Mounted Police.
Prisoner of Zenda tops the UMR and critics chart, it’s the original and best rated but I do have a preference for MGMs color remake of the 1950s.
Probably because of Stewart Granger and James Mason, and as a kid that was the one I knew before eventually catching up with the original.
Nice work. Vote Up!
Hey Steve. Thanks for the feedback on our leaders page. I have only seen three of her movies, both of the Hitchcock movies and Zenda. I guess one could argue that she started the Hitchcock blonde leading lady theme. That was a part of his movies he used lots. Speaking of the prisoner of Zenda movies I like both of them. In her version, Douglas Fairbanks junior steals the show. As always thanks for the feedback.
Steve with a tally count victory.
Great UMR Page
Thank you Mike.