Madeleine Lebeau

Biography

Madeleine LeBeau, was a French actress who played Humphrey Bogart’s jilted mistress Yvonne, in “Casablanca,” In “Casablanca,” LeBeau gets teary-eyed when “La Marseillaise” is played and shouts “Viva la France!” She was among several cast members who were actually refugees from the German occupation. Her life echoed the film: After she made her screen debut in French film “Girls in Distress” in 1939, LeBeau and her husband, actor Marcel Dalio, fled Paris for Portugal. They were said to have received transit visas that allowed them to enter Spain and then Portugal before continuing on towards Chile. They were stranded in Mexico when their visas turned out to be forgeries and were able to enter the United States with temporary Canadian passports.

Filmografi

Casablanca1943 · Yvonne8½1963 · Madeleine, the French ActressNapoleon1955 · Emilie PellapraLa vuelta1965 · Angelique1964 · La Grande MademoiselleYou Have Nothing to Declare?1959 · Gloria FrontignacParis Still Sings!1951 · GisèleWay of Youth1959 · Flora, peite-amie éconduite de PaulSins of Madeleine1951 · MalouHold Back the Dawn1941 · AnniLightly and Shortly Dressed1953 · Jacqueline VermorelLAventurière du Tchad1953 · Fanny LacourLa Parisienne1957 · Monique WilsonGunmen Of The Rio Grande1964 · Jennie LeeGentleman Jim1942 · Anna HeldThe Secret of Monte-Cristo1948 · Marguerite VigourouxQuai des blondes1954 · NellyLife Together1958 · PeggyThe Royalists1947 · Marie-Nathalie de VerneuilMandat d'amener1953 · Françoise DelangladeCage of Gold1950 · MarieFortuné de Marseille1952 · ToniaThe Country I Come From1956 · Music for Millions1944 · Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)