Madeleine Carroll

She also appeared in The Prisoner of Zenda, One Night in Lisbon, and My Favorite Blonde (with Bob Hope). Lili Damita died of Alzheimer's disease in Palm Beach, Florida and was interred in the Oakland Cemetery in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She appeared in two Alfred Hitchcock movies The 39 Steps and Secret Agent. During the Vietnam Conflict, her son Sean Flynn was working as a freelance photo journalist under contract to Time Magazine when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone went missing on the road south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on April 6, 1970. Although Lili Damita spent an enormous amount of money searching for her son, he was never found and in 1984 was declared legally dead. Madeline Carroll was a graduate of The University of Birmingham, England. Following the marriage, she gave up her film career, taking up residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The couple divorced in 1942 and Damita eventually married Albert Loomis, a Fort Dodge, Iowa dairy owner. She served in the 61st Field Hospital, Bari, Italy in 1944, where many wounded American airmen flying out of air bases around Foggia were hospitalized. Divorced from Curtiz, in 1935 she married a virtual unknown who would become Hollywood's biggest box office attraction, Errol Flynn with whom she had a son, Sean born in 1941.

During World War II, Madeleine Carroll was an American Red Cross volunteer worker. In 1929, she went to Hollywood, making her American debut in a film titled "The Rescue." Soon, she was an important star at Warner Brothers Studios, appearing with rising male stars such as Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Born in West Bromwich, England, she became an American citizen in 1943. She became the second wife of Hungarian born film director Michael Curtiz after appearing in three of his Austrian made films. Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress. Offered a role in film, in 1921 she appeared in her first French made silent film before going on to perform in films in Britain, Austria, and Germany. IMDB entry for Madeleine Carroll (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140914/). Born Liliane-Marie-Madeleine Carré in Bordeaux, France, by age 16 she was performing in popular music-halls, eventually starring in the Revue at the Casino de Paris.

Lili Damita (July 19, 1901 – March 21, 1994) was an actress.