Editing Nancy Carroll (section)

==Early years==
Of Irish parentage, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Lahiff, Carroll was born in New York City. Her education came at [[Holy Trinity Catholic Schools|Holy Trinity School]] in New York, but she left there at age 16 to work as a stenographer in an office of a lace manufacturer.<ref name="gr">{{cite book|last1=Aaker|first1=Everett|title=George Raft: The Films|date=2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786493135|pages=34–35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qi7JiuIsQbsC&lpg=PA31&vq=%22Wynne%20Gibson%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q=Carroll&f=false|access-date=8 November 2016|language=en}}</ref> (Another source says that she left the eighth grade at age 14 "to go on the stage".<ref name=s>{{cite magazine |last=Talbott |first=Thomas |date=September 1930 |pages=55, 118-119 |title=News! Nancy Carroll |url=https://archive.org/details/screenland21unse/page/n582/mode/1up?view=theater |magazine=Screenland |access-date=February 16, 2025 }}</ref>) She was the seventh<ref name=pp>{{cite magazine |last=Bell |first=Caroline |date=April 1928 |pages=26, 107 |title=A Rose of Tenth Avenue |url=https://archive.org/details/pictureplaymagaz28unse/page/n153/mode/1up?view=theater |magazine=Picture Play |access-date=February 16, 2025 }}</ref> of 12 children.<ref name="ppg">{{cite news |last1=Tighe |first1=Dixie |title=Meet Nancy Carroll---Wife, Mother and Screen Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-nancy-carroll/165784825/ |access-date=February 16, 2025 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=November 4, 1929 |page=19|via = [[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref> Although her parents had named her Ann, she said, "... finally I ''demanded'' that I be called Nancy, and they agreed it suited me."<ref name="pp" />

Carroll and her sister "worked up a little specialty number" and auditioned for the Shuberts, which resulted in their performing in a show.<ref name="pp" />