Editing Nancy Carroll (section)

== Career ==
Carroll's career began in 1923 when she performed in the chorus of ''The Passing Show'' in New York.<ref name="hcobit">{{cite news |title=Actress Nancy Carroll Found Dead in New Yorkl |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-nancy-carroll/165642027/ |access-date=February 15, 2025 |work=The Hartford Courant |agency=Associated Press |date=August 8, 1965 |page=34 A|via = [[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref> She began her acting career in Broadway musicals. Although she initially wanted to be a character actress, she said, "But the moment I took off my hat, and that's the first thing a manager asks you to do when you go to apply for a job — every manager without exception would say: 'You must go into musical comedy. You're just the type. No chance for you in a dramatic production.'"<ref name="s" /> She became a successful actress in sound films because her musical background enabled her to play in movie musicals of the 1930s. Her film debut was in ''[[Ladies Must Dress]]'' in 1927.{{Citation needed |date=February 2025}} 

Carroll's early experience included work in "second-rate road companies" and portrayal of Roxie Hart in the Los Angeles production of ''[[Chicago (play)|Chicago]]''.<ref name=pp131>{{cite magazine |last=Oettinger |first=Malcolm H. |date=January 1931 |pages=34, 115 |title=One of the Calmer Redheads |url=https://archive.org/details/picturepla34stre/page/n39/mode/1up?view=theater |magazine=Picture Play |access-date=February 16, 2025 }}</ref> 

[[File:The Devil's Holiday Lobby Card.jpg|right|thumb|1930 lobby card]]
In 1928 she made eight films. One of them, ''[[Easy Come, Easy Go (1928 film)|Easy Come, Easy Go]]'', co-starring [[Richard Dix (actor)|Richard Dix]], made her a movie star. In 1929 she starred in ''[[The Dance of Life (film)|The Dance of Life]]'' with [[Hal Skelly]], and ''[[The Wolf of Wall Street (1929 film)|The Wolf of Wall Street]]'' along with [[George Bancroft (actor)|George Bancroft]] and [[Olga Baclanova]]. She was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in 1930 for ''[[The Devil's Holiday]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=("Nancy Carroll" search results)|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=950627580087|website=Academy Awards|access-date=9 November 2016}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Among her other films are ''[[Laughter (1930 film)|Laughter]]'' (1930), ''[[Paramount on Parade]]'' (1930), ''[[Hot Saturday]]'' (1932) with [[Cary Grant]] and [[Randolph Scott]], ''[[The Kiss Before the Mirror]]'' (1933) directed by [[James Whale]], and ''[[Broken Lullaby]]'' aka ''The Man I Killed'' (1932) directed by [[Ernst Lubitsch]].

Under contract to [[Paramount Pictures]], Carroll often balked at the roles the studio offered her, and she earned a reputation as a recalcitrant and uncooperative actress. In spite of her ability to successfully tackle light comedies, tearful melodramas, and even musicals, and as well as garnering considerable praise by the critics and public &ndash; she received the most fan mail of any star in the early 1930s &ndash; she was released from her contract by the studio. In the mid-1930s under a four-film contract with [[Columbia Pictures]], she made four rather insignificant films and was no longer an A-list actress.{{Citation needed |date=February 2025}} 

Carroll retired from films in 1938, returned to the stage,{{Citation needed |date=January 2020}} and starred as the mother in the early television series ''[[The Aldrich Family#Television|The Aldrich Family]]''<ref name="sw">{{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=John |title=Screen World, 1966 |date=1966 |publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers |isbn=978-0-8196-0307-4 |page=234 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VCQ9AErr-uMC&q=%22Ann+Veronica+Lahiff%22&pg=PA234 |access-date=January 29, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> in 1950. In the following year, she guest-starred in the television version of ''[[The Egg and I (film)|The Egg and I]]'', starring her daughter, [[Patricia Kirkland]].