Occupation Actress Years active 1929–1957 | Name Carol Goodner Role Actress | |
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Born May 30, 1904 New York City, New York, U.S. Died November 29, 2001, Katonah, New York, United States Movies Red Ensign, There Goes the Bride, The Fire Raisers, Those Who Love, The Ringer Similar People Michael Powell, Ian Dalrymple, Herbert Brenon, Albert de Courville, Tom Walls | ||
Carol Goodner (May 30, 1904 – November 29, 2001) was an American actress who appeared mostly in British films and television.
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Carol Goodner was born in New York in 1904. A toe dancer when she was only four years old, she continued to earn her living that way until she was nine, when she went to school. She achieved her first New York stage success in 1926 and the following year made her London debut in the stage play; The Butter and Egg Man at the Garrick Theatre. Her New York theater credits include creating the role of Lorraine Sheldon, loosely based on Gertrude Lawrence, in The Man Who Came to Dinner. In England, she appeared in her first film Those Who Love in 1929. In 1931, when in London, she was a friend of actress Kay Walsh and the girlfriend of actor Henry Wilcoxon. Goodner returned to America at the outbreak of war in 1939. She appeared in theatre in New York, but made no more films, and retired in 1957.