Btritish postcard in the Film Partners series, no. P 214. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for The General Died at Dawn (Lewis Milestone, 1936). British actress Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987) was a blonde beauty of ladylike demeanour. The first of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘ice-cool blondes’ was immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and was nicknamed ‘The Queen…

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