At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the
world's highest-paid actress. She worked alongside such greats as
Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton, British directors Victor Saville
and Alfred Hitchcock, and Hollywood directors John Ford and Otto
Preminger. She also did radio and television shows--all of which she
abandoned to become a Red Cross worker. Piecing together long-lost
facts, the author describes Carroll's almost indescribable life,
narrating her personal highs and lows, as well as her fervent commitment
to helping others--particularly child victims of war.