JOAN CARROLL

 (18 January 1932 - 16 November 2016)

Child actress Joan Carroll had a short film career from an uncredited turn in 1936 in The First Baby until 1945 with Leo McCarey’s The Bells of St Mary’s. She was with Claire Trevor in Walking Down Broadway (1938) and appeared with many other celebrated stars: Don Ameche in Gateway, Peter Lorre in Mr Moto’s Last Warning, Rathbone and Karloff in Tower of London, Alice Faye in Barricade, Ginger Rogers in Primrose Path and Fredric March in Tomorrow the World! Apart from The Bells of St Mary’s Carroll may be best remembered for the part of Agnes Smith, one of Judy Garland’s sisters, in Meet Me in St Louis, She also appeared (uncredited) with Garland in Under the Clock, after which she retired. Carroll was the first Hollywood child to appear on Broadway in the Cole Porter musical Panama Hattie, in which she sang ‘Let’s Be Buddies’ with Ethel Merman.

MICHAEL DARVELL