[2] Using the stage name Jane Starr,[3] she worked with movie producer Louis O. Macloon at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, demonstrating how motion pictures were made.
Macloon, who had recently given an actor named Clark Gable some of his first parts, chose her to star in the Broadway play It Pays to Sin.
"[citation needed] Carroll moved to San Francisco, where she and Macloon opened an experimental theater and produced several plays.
Movies made at MGM while Lucille Carroll ran its training department included Singin' in the Rain, Show Boat, Gaslight and Meet Me in St. Louis.
While she was there, MGM garnered 16 Academy Award nominations for best picture, winning Oscars for An American in Paris and Mrs. Miniver.
One of Carroll's roles at MGM was as an advisor to established stars such as Hepburn, Tracy, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Greer Garson.
As Jane Starr, Carroll married Lieutenant Commander Charles Bellamy Carpenter, Jr., on December 24, 1945,[5] in Las Vegas, Nevada.