Carol Goodner

{{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Carol Goodner | image = Cropped_Photo_of_Carol_Goodner.jpg | caption = | occupation = Actress | birth_name = Carol Marie Goodner<ref>Great Actors and Actresses of the American Stage in Historic Photographs, edited by Stanley Appelbaum c.1983</ref> | birth_date = May 30, 1904 | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = November 29, 2001 (aged 97) | death_place = Katonah, New York, U.S. | years_active = 1929–1957}}

'''Carol Marie Goodner''' (May 30, 1904 – November 29, 2001) was an American actress who appeared mostly in British films and television.

==Career== Carol Goodner was born in New York City<ref>{{cite news |title=U.S.-Born Actress Now British Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104293560/carol-goodner/ |access-date=June 23, 2022 |work=Times Colonist |date=February 12, 1945 |location=Canada, British Columbia, Victoria |page=5|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> on May 30, 1904.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wollstein |first1=Hans J. |title=Carol Goodner |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/carol-goodner-p27690 |website=AllMovie |access-date=June 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327101739/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/carol-goodner-p27690 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

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''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/carol-goodner-p27690|title=Carol Goodner - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie|author=Hans J. Wollstein|work=AllMovie}}</ref> 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.<ref>Dave Cox ''Ave Atque Vale''</ref> In 1937 she played the title role in John Van Druten's play ''Gertie Maude'' at St Martin's Theatre. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/15114|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306130646/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/15114|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-03-06|title=Carol Goodner|work=BFI}}</ref>

==Personal life== Goodner married Thomas Marshall, a real estate man, in New York City on May 14, 1940.<ref name="married">{{cite news |title=Carol Goodner married |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/15/archives/carol-goodner-married-actress-bride-here-of-thomas-marshall-real.html |access-date=June 23, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=May 15, 1940 |page=35|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She married actor Frederic Hunter in New Orleans on January 30, 1949.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carol Goodner, Actress, Wed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/04/archives/carol-goodner-actress-wed.html |access-date=June 23, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=February 4, 1949 |page=29|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Goodner filed a voluntary petition of bankruptcy in federal court on July 27, 1944. Her filing indicated that she had $340 in assets and $2,793 in liabilities.<ref>{{cite news |title=Actress Files as Bankrupt |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/106948059 |access-date=June 23, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=July 28, 1944 |page=16| id={{ProQuest|106948059}} |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Goodner died on November 29, 2001, in Katonah, New York.<ref>{{cite web |title=Carol Goodner |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/carol-goodner-42533 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=June 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228051933/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/carol-goodner-42533 |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Filmography== * ''Those Who Love'' (1929) - Anne * ''The Ringer'' (1931) - Cora Ann Milton * ''The Flying Squad'' (1932) - Ann Perryman * ''There Goes the Bride'' (1932) - Cora * ''Strange Evidence'' (1933) - Marie / Barbara Relf * ''Leave It to Smith'' (1933) - Mary Linkley * ''The Fire Raisers'' (1934) - Helen Vaughan * ''Red Ensign'' (1934) - June MacKinnon * ''What's in a Name?'' (1934) - Marta Radovic * ''Mimi'' (1935) - Musette * ''Royal Cavalcade'' (1935) - Tourist in Tower of London * ''The Student's Romance'' (1935) - Veronika Laubenthaler * ''Music Hath Charms'' (1935) - Mrs. Norbray * ''La Vie parisienne''/''Parisian Life'' (1936) - Simone * ''The Dominant Sex'' (1937) - Gwen Clayton * ''The Frog'' (1937) - Lola Bassano * ''A Royal Divorce'' (1938) - Mme. Tallien

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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Cox |first=David |title=Ave Atque Vale - the story of the Vale Special |year=2006 |publisher=Martin Publications |location=Berkshire |isbn=0-9553010-0-9}}

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