Anna Lee Carroll

Anna Lee Carroll was an American actress whose career centered on the stage in Alabama. Born in Birmingham in 1930, she began acting professionally in 1952 with the Town and Gown Theater, the Birmingham company run by director James Hatcher, and grew into one of the state's leading stage actresses, appearing in dozens of plays and traveling productions through her final role in 2015. Her other theater work included productions at the Virginia Samford Theatre, Birmingham Festival Theatre and Terrific New Theatre, and tours with Wit's Other End and the Seasoned Performers; she often acted opposite Fannie Flagg. She was best known on screen as Nurse Bradford in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), supplying the dialogue for Alan Arkin's deaf mute character. Her films also included Not of This Earth (1957), Fear No More (1961) and Marlowe (1969). Carroll died in 2017.