Joan Carroll

Acting

Joan Carroll

Born 1931-01-18 · Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA

Joan Carroll (January 18, 1931 - November 16, 2016) was an American child actress who appeared in films until retiring in 1945. Six-year-old Joan made her film debut in Walking Down Broadway (1938). She played the role of Sunny, and changed her name from Felt to Carroll. A role in Two Sisters (1938) followed, and the next year she had supporting roles in Barricade (1939) and Tower of London (1939). It wasn't until 1940 when Joan had her breakthrough. She had important parts in Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) and especially Primrose Path (1940), where she stole the show as Ginger Rogers' younger sister. In 1941 Joan won her first lead role in Obliging Young Lady (1942). She played Bridget Potter, who was stuck in the middle of a custody case but still found time to be the life of the party at a resort. The film costarred Ruth Warrick. In 1942 Joan was the first child star from Hollywood to appear in a Broadway play. This play, "Panama Hattie", gave Joan national fame, and she was featured in many magazine articles and newspapers. In 1943 she won her second lead role in Petticoat Larceny (1943), in which she played Joan Mitchell, a radio star who goes undercover to get a better feel of her roles. The film reunited Joan with Ruth Warrick. In 1944 Joan played perhaps her most famous role, that of Agnes, younger sister to Judy Garland and older sister to Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). In 1945 Joan had an important supporting role in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), starring with Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. That same year she appeared in Tomorrow, the World! (1944). After these films, Joan retired.

Acting credits

Meet Me in St. Louis poster
7.0

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Meet Me in St. Louis

1944

The Bells of St. Mary's poster
6.8

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.

The Bells of St. Mary's

1945

Walking Down Broadway poster
6.8

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.

Walking Down Broadway

1938

A Child is Born poster
7.1

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

A Child is Born

1939

Obliging Young Lady poster
6.0

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Obliging Young Lady

1942

Tower of London poster
6.1

In the 15th century, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother, King Edward IV of England.

Tower of London

1939

Mr. Moto's Last Warning poster
5.7

A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

1939

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

1973

Primrose Path poster
6.7

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.

Primrose Path

1940

Petticoat Larceny poster
7.0

An 11-year-old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.

Petticoat Larceny

1943

Anne of Windy Poplars poster
6.0

Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.

Anne of Windy Poplars

1940

Gateway poster
7.4

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.

Gateway

1938

Tomorrow, the World! poster
8.1

German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

Tomorrow, the World!

1944

Barricade poster
6.5

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

Barricade

1939

Laddie poster
6.6

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

Laddie

1940

One Mile from Heaven poster
6.6

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

One Mile from Heaven

1937

Second Chance poster
10.0

A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage.

Second Chance

1950

The Jack of Diamonds poster
8.2

Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.

The Jack of Diamonds

1949

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4 poster
10.0

Fourth film in the Hedda Hopper series.

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

1942