Nancy Carroll (born Ann Veronica Lahiff; November , â€" August , )
was an American actress.Of Irish parentage, the daughter of Thomas and
Ann Lahiff, Carroll was born in New York City. Her education came at
Holy Trinity School in New York, but she left there at age to work as
a stenographer in an office of a lace manufacturer.Carroll and her
sister Elsie once performed a dancing act in a local contest of
amateur talent. This led her to a stage career and then on to screen
stardom. She began her acting career in Broadway musicals. She became
a successful actress in sound films because her musical background
enabled her to play in movie musicals of the s. Her film debut was in
Ladies Must Dress in .In she made eight films. One of them, Easy
Come, Easy Go, co-starring Richard Dix, made her a movie star. In she
starred in The Dance of Life with Hal Skelly, and The Wolf of Wall
Street along with George Bancroft and Olga Baclanova. She was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in for The Devil's
Holiday. Among her other films are Laughter (), Paramount on Parade
(), Hot Saturday () with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss
Before the Mirror () directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka
The Man I Killed () directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
was an American actress.Of Irish parentage, the daughter of Thomas and
Ann Lahiff, Carroll was born in New York City. Her education came at
Holy Trinity School in New York, but she left there at age to work as
a stenographer in an office of a lace manufacturer.Carroll and her
sister Elsie once performed a dancing act in a local contest of
amateur talent. This led her to a stage career and then on to screen
stardom. She began her acting career in Broadway musicals. She became
a successful actress in sound films because her musical background
enabled her to play in movie musicals of the s. Her film debut was in
Ladies Must Dress in .In she made eight films. One of them, Easy
Come, Easy Go, co-starring Richard Dix, made her a movie star. In she
starred in The Dance of Life with Hal Skelly, and The Wolf of Wall
Street along with George Bancroft and Olga Baclanova. She was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in for The Devil's
Holiday. Among her other films are Laughter (), Paramount on Parade
(), Hot Saturday () with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss
Before the Mirror () directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka
The Man I Killed () directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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