Joan Carroll (January 18, 1931 – November 16, 2016) was an American child actress who appeared in films until retiring in 1945. She was born on January 18, 1932, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Her mother was quite a famous piano player in the 1930s. 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.
Around 1940 she chose the name “Carroll” because she said it sounded musical.Up until 1940 she was the only child star to be summoned from Hollywood in order to appear in the leading role of a Broadway musical. When she wasn’t acting, she was either ice-skating or playing the piano. She once captured fifth prize in a West Coast (USA) ice-skating competition in 1939 and played the piano in the footsteps of her mother, who appeared in concerts and on radio in her time.
Joan Carroll Biography / Wiki
| Name | Joan Carroll |
| Also Know | Joan Felt, Joan Marie Felt |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1931-01-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday | 2016-11-16 |
Joan Carroll Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Obliging Young Lady | Bridget Potter | 1942-04-01 | A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents’ divorce…. |
| Petticoat Larceny | Joan Mitchell / Small Change | 1943-07-17 | 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 soo… |
| The Jack of Diamonds | Joan Keen | 1949-01-01 | 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 turn… |
| Laddie | Sister Stanton | 1940-01-18 | Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England…. |
| Tomorrow, the World! | Pat Frame | 1944-12-29 | German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism…. |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 4 | Self | 1942-01-01 | Fourth film in the Hedda Hopper series…. |
| One Mile From Heaven | Sunny | 1937-08-18 | A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds…. |
| The Bells of St. Mary’s | Patricia ‘Patsy’ Gallagher | 1945-12-27 | Father O’Malley, the unconventional priest from ‘Going My Way’, continues his work for the Catholic Church. This time he is sent to St. Mary’s, a run-… |
| Mr. Moto’s Last Warning | Mary ‘Marie’ ‘Delacour | 1939-01-20 | 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 Egyp… |
| Second Chance | Nurse | 1950-09-06 | 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 … |
| Primrose Path | Honeybell | 1940-03-22 | 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. … |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | Betty Grayson | 1940-06-28 | 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 ‘An… |
| Barricade | Winifred Ward | 1939-12-08 | In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits…. |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | Agnes Smith | 1944-11-28 | In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move… |
| Walking Down Broadway | Sunny Martin | 1938-03-11 | 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 differ… |
| Tower of London | Lady Mowbray (uncredited) | 1939-11-17 | 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, … |
| A Child Is Born | Little Girl (uncredited) | 1939-12-07 | A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward…. |
| Gateway | Child | 1938-08-05 | Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h… |
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