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Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937. Achieving international stardom with The 39 Steps, Carroll was the first British beauty to be offered a major American film contract.
The 39 Steps is a 1935 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.It is loosely based on the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. [3]
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood's Magazine (credited to "H. de V.") between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year.
Friedrich Robert Donat (/ ˈ d oʊ n æ t / DOH-nat; 18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) [1] was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which he won the Academy Award for ...
[100] [101] His first film for the company, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), was a success; his second, The 39 Steps (1935), was acclaimed in the UK, and gained him recognition in the US. It also established the quintessential English "Hitchcock blonde" (Madeleine Carroll) as the template for his succession of ice-cold, elegant leading ladies ...
The 39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcock: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim: Mystery: Number 4 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films: Abdul the Damned: Karl Grune: Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther, Adrienne Ames: Drama: The Ace of Spades: George Pearson: Michael Hogan, Dorothy Boyd, Richard Cooper: Drama: Admirals All: Victor Hanbury
The King Steps Out: Emperor Franz Josef Suzy: Terry The Gorgeous Hussy: John Eaton Love on the Run: Barnabus W. "Barney" Pells 1937 Quality Street: Dr. Valentine Brown They Gave Him a Gun: James "Jimmy" Davis Between Two Women: Allan Meighan The Bride Wore Red: Giulio 1938 Man-Proof: Jimmy Kilmartin Love Is a Headache: Peter Lawrence Three ...
The most common type of visual gag is based on multiple interpretations of a series of events. [3] This type is used in the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps.Lead actor Robert Donat was kidnapping actress Madeleine Carroll and they were handcuffed.