Nancy Carroll

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1903-11-19 (62 years old)

Deathday

1965-08-06

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Nancy Carroll

Biography

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 M...

Acting

1932

Hot Saturday

as Ruth Brock

1933

The Woman Accused

as Glenda O'Brien

1938

There Goes My Heart

as Dorothy Moore

1928

Abie's Irish Rose

as Rosemary Murphy

1932

Broken Lullaby

as Fraulein Elsa

1933

Child of Manhattan

as Madelaine McGonagle

1929

The Dance of Life

as Bonny Lee King

1930

The Devil's Holiday

as Hallie Hobart

1930

Follow Thru

as Lora Moore

1932

Scarlet Dawn

as Tanyusha Krasnoff

1930

Laughter

as Peggy Gibson

1931

1935

Atlantic Adventure

as Helen Murdock

1928

The Shopworn Angel

as Daisy Heath

1934

Springtime for Henry

as Julia Jelliwell

1929

1928

Easy Come, Easy Go

as Barbara Quayle

1928

Manhattan Cocktail

as Babs Clark

1929

Close Harmony

as Marjorie Merwin

1931

The Night Angel

as Yula Martini

1935

After the Dance

as Anne Taylor

1927

1929

Illusion

as Claire Jernigan

1932

Under-Cover Man

as Lora Madigan

1929

Sweetie

as Barbara Pell

1928

Chicken à la King

as Maisie Devoe

1931

Personal Maid

as Nora Ryan

1930

1933

I Love That Man

as Grace Clark

1932

Wayward

as Daisy Frost

1938

That Certain Age

as Grace Bristow

1930

Honey

as Olivia Dangerfield

1934

Jealousy

as Jo O'Roarke

1935

1928

The Water Hole

as Judith Endicott

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