Talk:Madeleine Carroll

Headers
Just a couple of comments/questions about the headers. Firstly, was she ever actually called "English Rose"? If so, it needs to mentioned, and attributed to a source within the text rather than only in the header. Using it just in the header suggests that the term has been coined by Wikipedia. If this is the case it should be removed. It should only be used, I believe, if it was a genuine tag given to her during her career, that she was well known by. Examples of this are "The It Girl" (Clara Bow) and "The Oomph Girl" (Ann Sheridan). These names were coined for publicity, but they stuck. Is "English Rose" the same? I don't know much about Madeleine Carroll, but I've not read it before.

Secondly, the next header is about her becoming a Hitchcock blonde, which to me is a too-specific header that is only addressed by the first paragraph of the text that follows. If this is a work in progress I won't interfere by changing it, but if the Hitchcock reference is not going to be expanded upon considerably, the header should be changed to something more generic such as "Career". Rossrs 08:22, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

WP Biography Rating
Due to a backlog it is no longer possible to give comment on ratings. Please put any comments/questions on my talk page. GDon4t0 20:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Birth Name and Birth Place
The article says her birth name is "Edith Madeleine Carroll". However, the Second Edition of the International Directory of Films and Filmmakers - Actors and Actresses, published by St James Press in 1992, says that her birth name is "Marie Madeleine Bernadette O'Carroll". The article also says she was born in Birmingham, England. The Directory of Films and Filmmakers says her place of birth is Warwickshire, England. What do we do when we have two sources providing information which does not match? Cosmo1976 (talk) 06:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Birth records indicate "Edith Madeleine Carroll" to be correct: https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=ldN6odG%2FYms6dy%2BvsMNpFw&scan=1. The usually reliable Oxford Dictionary of National Biography does go for the other option, though they don't cite official records here as they normally do: https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-57305?rskey=IAlgBC&result=1. They both agree on her birthplace as West Bromwich, however. Crisso (talk) 19:06, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

The Marriages
Four husbands are listed, but no details of married life. Were there any children? 86.181.153.30 (talk) 13:55, 13 October 2011 (UTC)