Nancy Carroll

Born: 1903-11-19

Nancy Carroll (November 19, 1903 – August 6, 1965) was an American actress.She began her acting career in Broadway musicals. She became a successful actress in "talkies" because her musical background enabled her to play in the movie musicals of the 1930s. Her film debut was in Ladies Must Dress in 1927. In 1928 she made eight films. One of them, Easy Come, Easy Go, co-starring Richard Dix, made her a star. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930 for The Devil's Holiday. Among her other films are Laughter (1930), Paramount on Parade (1930), Hot Saturday (1932) with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka The Man I Killed (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Carroll retired from films in 1938, returned to the stage, and starred in the early television series The Aldrich Family in 1950. In the following year, she guest starred in the television version of The Egg and I, starring her daughter, Patricia Kirkland. On August 6, 1965, she was found dead after failing to arrive at the theatre for a performance. The cause of her death was an aneurysm. She was 61 years old. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Nancy Carroll has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1719 Vine Street.


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Broken Lullaby

as Fraulein Elsa
Released: 1932-01-19

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who,...

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The Wolf of Wall Street

as Gert
Released: 1929-02-09

A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by...

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There Goes My Heart

as Dorothy Moore
Released: 1938-10-14

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

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Under-Cover Man

as Lora Madigan
Released: 1932-12-02

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover...

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Laughter

as Peggy Gibson
Released: 1930-09-24

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows...

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Sweetie

as Barbara Pell
Released: 1929-10-25

Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to...

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Scarlet Dawn

as Tanyusha Krasnoff
Released: 1932-11-12

During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to...

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Stolen Heaven

as Mary
Released: 1931-02-20

A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in...

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Child of Manhattan

as Madelaine McGonagle
Released: 1933-02-11

Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in...

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The Dance of Life

as Bonny Lee King
Released: 1929-08-16

A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers,...

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The Shopworn Angel

as Daisy Heath
Released: 1928-12-29

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a...

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Atlantic Adventure

as Helen Murdock
Released: 1935-08-25

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he...

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Ladies Must Dress

as Mazie
Released: 1927-11-20

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the...

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Honey

as Olivia Dangerfield
Released: 1930-03-29

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

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Galas de la Paramount

as Self (from original version)
Released: 1930-07-31

Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to...

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Dangerous Paradise

as Alma
Released: 1930-02-13

Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma....

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Hot Saturday

as Ruth Brock
Released: 1932-10-28

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an...

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Illusion

as Claire Jernigan
Released: 1929-09-21

A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated...

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Paramount on Parade

as Herself
Released: 1930-04-22

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars,...

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The Kiss Before the Mirror

as Maria Held
Released: 1933-05-04

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney...

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That Certain Age

as Grace Bristow
Released: 1938-10-06

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss,...

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Springtime for Henry

as Julia Jelliwell
Released: 1934-08-22

A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him...

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Manhattan Cocktail

as Babs Clark
Released: 1928-11-24

Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a...

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The Night Angel

as Yula Martini
Released: 1931-07-18

In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe....

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After the Dance

as Anne Taylor
Released: 1935-06-25

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses...

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The Woman Accused

as Glenda O'Brien
Released: 1933-02-17

Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan...

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Personal Maid

as Nora Ryan
Released: 1931-09-12

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a...

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The Devil's Holiday

as Hallie Hobart
Released: 1930-05-09

Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy...

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Follow Thru

as Lora Moore
Released: 1930-09-26

Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry...

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The Water Hole

as Judith Endicott
Released: 1928-08-25

Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan,...

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I'll Love You Always

as Nora Clegg
Released: 1935-03-19

Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of...

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Wayward

as Daisy Frost
Released: 1932-02-19

Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel...

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I Love That Man

as Grace Clark
Released: 1933-07-07

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way...

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Close Harmony

as Marjorie Merwin
Released: 1929-04-12

Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes...

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Easy Come, Easy Go

as Barbara Quayle
Released: 1928-04-20

Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father....

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Jealousy

as Jo O'Roarke
Released: 1934-11-23

Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of...

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Chicken à la King

as Maisie Devoe
Released: 1928-06-09

A married tightwad learns to loosen up by living the life of a playboy.

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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

as Sally Marsh
Released: 1934-11-02

Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been...

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Abie's Irish Rose

as Rosemary Murphy
Released: 1928-04-19

When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families.

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This Is Your Life

as Self
First aired: 1952-10-01

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...

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Naked City

as Bernice Hacker
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Going My Way

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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