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avec Henry Fonda dans BLOCUS

 

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The original ash-blonde "iceberg maiden", Madeleine Carroll was a knowing beauty with a confident air, the epitome of poise and "breeding". Not only did she have looks and allure in abundance, but she had intellectual heft to go with them, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Birmingham University at the age of 20. The daughter of a French mother and an Irish father, she briefly held a position teaching French at a girls seminary near Brighton, but was by this time thoroughly determined to seek her career in the theatre--much to her dad's chagrin. Madeleine's chance arrived, after several failed auditions (and in between modeling hats), in the shape of a small part as a French maid in a 1927 West End production of "The Lash". Her film debut followed within a year and stardom was almost instantaneous. By the time she appeared in The W Plan (1930), Madeleine had become Britain's top female screen star. That is not to say, however, that she was a gifted actress from the outset. In fact, she learned her trade on the job, finding help along the way from established thespians such as Seymour Hicks and Miles Mander. Most of her early films tended to focus on that exquisite face, and bringing out her regal, well-bred--if rather icy--personality. Her beautiful speaking voice enabled her to make the transition to sound pictures effortlessly.

Following a year-long absence from acting (and marriage to Capt. Philip Astley of the King's Guards) she returned to the screen, having been tempted with a lucrative contract by Gaumont-British. The resulting films, Sleeping Car (1933) and J'étais une espionne (1933), were both popular and critical successes and prompted renewed offers from Hollywood. However, on loan to Fox, the tedious melodrama Le monde en marche (1934) did absolutely nothing for her career and she quickly returned to Britain--a fortuitous move, as it turned out. Alfred Hitchcock had been on the lookout for one of the unattainable, aloof blondes he was so partial to, whose smoldering sexuality lay hidden beneath a layer of ladylike demeanor (other Hitch favorites of that type included Grace Kelly and Kim Novak). Madeleine fitted the bill perfectly. Les 39 marches (1935), based on a novel by John Buchan, made her an international star. The process was not entirely painless, however, as Hitchcock "introduced" Madeleine to co-star Robert Donat by handcuffing them together (accounts vary as to how long, exactly, but it was likely for several hours) for "added realism". In due course the enforced companionship got the stars nicely acquainted and helped make their humorous banter in the film all the more convincing.

Hitchcock liked Madeleine and attempted to repeat the success of "The 39 Steps" with Quatre de l'espionnage (1936), but with somewhat diminished results (primarily because Donat had to pull out of the project due to illness and Madeleine's chemistry with John Gielgud was not on the same level as it was with Donat). Nonetheless, her reputation was made. After Alexander Korda sold her contract, she ended up back in Hollywood with Paramount. Initially she was signed for one year (1935-36), but this was extended in 1938 with a stipulation that she make two pictures per year until the end of 1941. The studio publicity machine touted Madeleine as "the most beautiful woman in the world". This was commensurate with her being given A-grade material, beginning with Le général est mort à l'aube (1936), opposite Gary Cooper. For once, Madeleine portrayed something other than a regal or "squeaky clean" character, and she did so with more warmth and élan than she had displayed in her previous films. She then showed a humorous side in Irving Berlin's On the Avenue (1937); had Tyrone Power and George Sanders fight it out for her affections in Le pacte (1936) (on loan to Fox); and turned up as a particularly decorative--though in regard to acting, underemployed--princess, in Le prisonnier de Zenda (1937). Thereafter she had hit the peak of her profession in terms of salary, reportedly making $250,000 in 1938 alone. For the remainder of her Hollywood tenure, Madeleine co-starred three times with Fred MacMurray (the most enjoyable encounter was Honeymoon in Bali (1939)), and opposite Bob Hope in one of his most fondly remembered comedies, La blonde de mes rêves (1942). Then it all started to come to an end.

Having lost her sister Guigette during a German air attack on London in October 1940, Madeleine devoted more and more of her time to the war effort, becoming entertainment director for the United Seamens Service and joining the Red Cross as a nurse under the name Madeleine Hamilton. She was unable to rekindle her popularity after the war, her last film of note being L'éventail de Lady Windermere (1949), a dramatization of Oscar Wilde's play. She made a solitary, albeit very successful, attempt at Broadway, with a starring role in the comedy "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1948), directed by and co-starring a young Sam Wanamaker. There were a few more TV and radio appearances but, for all intents and purposes, her career had run its course. Britain's most glamorous export to Hollywood became increasingly self-deprecating, rejecting further overtures from producers. Instead, she became more committed to charitable works on behalf of children, orphaned or injured as the result of the Second World War.

Madeleine spent the last 21 years of her life in retirement, first in Paris, then in the south of Spain. Two of her four ex-husbands included the actor Sterling Hayden and the French director/producer Henri Lavorel. Last of the quartet was Andrew Heiskell, publisher of 'Life' magazine. She died in Marbella in October 1987. In her private life, the trimmings of stardom seemed to have mattered little to Madeleine. As to her status as a sex symbol, she was once said to have quipped to a group of collegians who had voted her the girl they'd most like to be marooned with on a desert island, that she would not object, provided at least one of them was a good obstetrician!

- IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

Spouse (4)

Andrew Heiskell (1950 - 1965) (divorced)
Henri Lavorel (1946 - 1949) (divorced)
Sterling Hayden (14 February 1942 - 8 May 1946) (divorced)
Philip Reginald Astley (26 August 1931 - 12 December 1939) (divorced)

Trivia (7)

She appeared on the NBC Radio program "Chase and Sanborn Hour" October 30, 1938, with Nelson Eddy and Dorothy Lamour (vocalists), Robert Armbruster and his orchestra, starring Edgar Bergen (Charlie McCarthy), Don Ameche (host), Judy Zeke and Anne Canova. She performed with Eddy, Ameche and Bergen.
After her sister Marguerite was killed in a London bombing raid, she halted her acting career and worked in field hospitals as a Red Cross nurse. She was given the Legion d'Honneur for bravery in France.
She studied at Birmingham University (UK). Her father wanted her to be a French teacher, but she defied him and became an actress.
She was the first of Alfred Hitchcock's "ice-cool blondes", and was the highest-paid Hollywood actress of her time.
1938: Her salary was reported to be over $250,000, making her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.
Became a US citizen in 1943.
She died only seven days after her Le prisonnier de Zenda (1937) co-star Mary Astor.

 

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Toast to a real heroine

She left the film world when she was at the height of stardom to serve the wounded during World War II. Britain recently raised a memorial honouring Madeleine Carroll’s life and achievements

She was the first of Alfred Hitchcock’s ice-cool blondes when she starred in the thriller The 39 Steps and went on to become the highest-paid actress of her age. But when her sister was killed in the Blitz, Madeleine Carroll lost the taste for movies. She began volunteering for the Red Cross during the war and later became an activecampaigner for children through the United Nations’ agency Unicef.

Honoured by the French with the Legion d’Honneur and the Americans with a Medal of Freedom presented by President Harry S Truman, her life and work went unrecognised in Britain - until now. Last month, around 500 people turned out for the unveiling of a `A37,000 commemorative monument to the actress-turned-war nurse in her hometown of West Bromwich in the Midlands.

It was the triumphant end to a two-year campaign by Terry Price, 68, an amateur historian who had been staggered to discover the full story of the local star when he was researching his latest book, West Bromwich Memories. "I obviously knew of her film career - my mother and father always told me about it. But I didn’t realise until I started the research about all her humanitarian work," he said. "At the peak of her career, in 1943, she volunteered for the Red Cross and went overseas to Europe and stayed there with the troops working as a nurse until the war ended.

"She gave her chateau in France to be an orphanage and funded another one after the war. She was one of the first ambassadors for Unicef. But she was a very private person and didn’t give interviews and I think probably she put some of the media off." It was "absolutely wonderful" to see her recognised at last, he said. "It’s a very emotional time for me to think that someone who has been honoured all over the world but forgotten by this country and by West Bromwich for 60 years has now been formally recognised." The unveiling came just a few days short of what would have been the star’s 101st birthday.

Madeleine Carroll, who died in Spain of pancreatic cancer in 1987, was born in West Bromwich 81 years earlier, in 1906. She was the elder of two daughters to an Irish professor of languages and his French wife. The professor intended she should be a French teacher but his daughter fell for drama instead when she won a part in a student play while at Birmingham University.

"Somehow I did it as if I had been acting all my life," she said later. "I understood then how people get ‘a call’." Her beauty and sophistication soon won Carroll parts in three silent movies but it was her speaking voice, honed in elocution lessons while at school, that secured her fame when the "talkies" arrived. She rapidly rose to fame in films, including Madame Guillotine and The Kissing Cup Race and by 1931 she was the top female star in Britain.

She briefly retired after marrying a member of the Kings Guards, Philip Astley, but returned two years later with Sleeping Cars opposite Ivor Novello and the hit I Was a Spy. With offers flooding in from Hollywood, Carroll made her US debut in a John Ford film, The World Moves On. But it was when Alfred Hitchcock cast her in The 39 Steps in 1935 that she secured her place in film history.

Handcuffed to her handsome co-star, Robert Donat, and trading double entendres, she — and the film — was a sensation. More productions followed until by 1938 she was among the highest paid stars in the industry, making more than $250,000 a year. Her co-stars included Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr and Bob Hope. She married another of her leading men, Sterling Hayden, after divorcing Astley. She also became a popular guest on radio programmes, whose listeners were won over by her beautiful speaking voice.

But when war broke out and her sister, Marguerite, known as Guigette, was killed in the London bombings, Carroll agitated to get out of her film contracts. The death played "a significant part" in her desire to join the war effort, Price said. "She volunteered for overseas work as soon as she was released from her contract and she did fund-raising work for charity in the intervening years." As a Red Cross volunteer, she served in France and in Italy, treating wounded American airmen, taking the name Madeline Hamilton to mask her fame.

After the war, she stayed in Europe, making radio programmes designed to improve Franco-American relations and helped in the rehabilitation of concentration camp victims — through which she met her third husband, Henri Loveral. They were not married long. She returned to film-making, made her Broadway debut and wed, for a fourth time, the publisher of Life magazine, Andrew Heiskell, with whom she had a daughter,Anna Madeleine.

Her focus was increasingly on children. Following her experience of the devastation in Europe, she proposed a resolution to the American committee of Unicef that there should be an International Children’s Day and made impassioned speeches for child rights in what she called "a one-woman children’s crusade".

Later in life, she was asked about her career which included 43 films, enough to warrant a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. "Movies?" she said. "Just say I got out when the going was good." Terry Price thought this was a story that should be told. He gave his own money towards the statue and persuaded Adrian Bailey, the town’s MP, to raise the profile of the forgotten star in Parliament as long ago as July 2005. —

By arrangement with The Independent

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LE LIEN BRISE (1928)

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©-DR- Madeleine Carroll :Une Star oubliée

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Plus belle que Marlène Dietrich et Greta Garbo,elle en avait pourtant le talent
malheureusement trop méconnue de nos jours,un petit rappel
 
Madeleine Carroll
(26 février 1906 à West Bromwich en Angleterre -2 octobre 1987 à Marbella en Espagne) était une actrice anglaise très populaire dans les années 1930 et 1940.

Née Edith Madeleine Carroll, elle se lance dans le théâtre avant de se faire remarquer au cinéma dans I Was a Spy de Victor Saville, en 1933.Un an après Les 39 Marches, elle retrouve Alfred Hitchcock dans Quatre de l'espionnage.Engagée à Hollywood par la 20th Century-Fox, elle tourne dans quelques bons films d'aventures comme Le général est mort à l'aube de Lewis Milestone en 1936 ou Le Prisonnier de Zenda de John Cromwell en 1937.

Mais les six comédies qu'elle interprète sous la direction d'Edward H. Griffith feront pâlir son étoile.Son dernier film d'importance est The Fan d'Otto Preminger en 1949.Pendant le tournage de Le Monde en marche, elle a une liaison amoureuse avec John Ford[1]. Elle est l'épouse de Sterling Hayden de 1942 à 1946 et meurt à Marbella en 1987.

Filmographie partielle

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Je m'arrête là...Un peu marre de tomber sur de TRES rares photos ineptes,
alors que c'est justement la photo l'intéret principal de ce film...
Marre également des critiques négatives. J'aime ce film...Point

©-DR-LA NEIGE TOMBAIT SUR LES CEDRES de Scott Hicks (1999)

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La neige tombait sur les cèdres (Snow falling on cedars)
est un film américain Scott Hicks sorti en 1999 et

 

L'île de San Piedro (Puget Sound), dans le Pacifique Nord, en 1950. Les Américains de souche tolèrent les Japonais qui y vivent, mais le souvenir de Pearl Harbor est encore tenace dans les esprits. La mort mystérieuse du pêcheur Carl Heine va envenimer les relations entre les deux communautés car Kazuo Miyamoto est le coupable tout désigné. Le jeune reporter Ishmael Chambers va couvrir le procès. L'affaire a pour lui une signification toute personnelle, puisque la femme de Miyamoto, Hatsue, a été son premier amour, avant qu'elle ne connaisse la déportation au camp de Manzanar.

Fiche technique

Cast

Production

Le roman de David Guterson eut un retentissement aussi bien public que critique aux États-Unis, donnant en particulier plus d'écho à l'internement des Nippo-Américains pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Bien avant le succès de son film Shine, le réalisateur Scott Hicks avait déjà cherché à l'adapter pour le cinéma, mais Universal possédait alors les droits, acquis pour un prix avec lequel il ne pouvait rivaliser. Nantis d'une nomination aux Oscars, Hicks s'est toutefois finalement vu proposer la réalisation du film. Il retoucha le scénario original écrit par Ron Bass, en soustrayant en particulier une voix-off dans la narration[1]. Le budget alloué fut de 35 millions de dollars.

Réception

Lors de sa sortie en salle aux États-Unis, La neige tombait sur les cèdres ne récolta que 14,42 millions de dollars de recettes (sur un maximum de 1150 écrans), un échec d'autant que le film ne parvint pas à se rentabiliser en complément par ses recettes sur les autres territoires (8,6 millions de dollars[2]. La France ne bénéficia ainsi que d'une sortie limitée en nombre de salles. La critique se montra très mitigée dans son ensemble, incriminant une forme qui étouffait le sujet[3], même si un critique influent comme Roger Ebert le défendit comme l'un des rares film de cinéma à posséder dans son style cinématographique la complexité d'un roman[4].

En France la revue Positif lui accorda l'une des rares chroniques vraiment positive qu'on pouvait relever. Selon Christian Viviani, il y a un « parti pris de surenchère, tant plastique que narrative, qui a rarement été poursuivi avec un tel entêtement dans une fiction conventionnelle[5]. » Le style visuel est au centre du débat plus que l'arrière plan historique, comme le montre la critique négative de Thomas Sotinel dans Le Monde : « Scott Hicks prend son film à bras-le-corps et le maintient fermement au fond de l'eau, jusqu'à ce qu'il ne donne plus signe de vie. Sa manière de filmer est accablée de soucis esthétiques[6]. »

Aujourd'hui le film bénéficie de temps à autres de quelques nouvelles défenses. D'après Jeff Reichert, l'indifférence suscitée par le film était ainsi particulièrement injuste[7].

Aux Oscars, Robert Richardson obtint une nomination pour sa photographie.

Notes et références

  1. ↑ http://www.cinetudes.com/CINEMA,-TEMPS-ET-HISTOIRE-2e-partie-Chronique-d-un-echec-critique-et-commercial_a148.html [archive]
  2. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=snowfallingoncedars.htm [archive]
  3. ↑ http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/snow_falling_on_cedars/ [archive]
  4. ↑ « Told this way, the story seems like crime and romance, but "Snow Falling on Cedars" reveals itself with the complexity of a novel, holding its themes up to the light so that first one and then another aspect can be seen. The style is crucial to the subject. » Roger Ebert, Snow falling on cedars, Chicago Sun times, 1999.
  5. ↑ Viviani Christian, La Neige tombait sur les Cèdres, Positif, mai 2000, p45 ↑
  6. Jeff Reichert, Forget Me Not, Reverse shot for president, 2004. http://www.reverseshot.com/article/snow_falling_on_cedars [archive]
 

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