Madeleine Lebeau
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.
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Credits
- 1970 · « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur as Mlle Lambert
- 1965 · La vuelta as
- 1964 · Angelique as La Grande Mademoiselle
- 1964 · Gunmen Of The Rio Grande as Jennie Lee
- 1963 · 8½ as Madeleine, the French Actress
- 1959 · You Have Nothing to Declare? as Gloria Frontignac
- 1958 · Life Together as Peggy
- 1957 · La Parisienne as Monique Wilson
- 1956 · The Country I Come From as
- 1955 · The Miller's Saucy Wife as Jacqueline
- 1955 · Napoleon as Emilie Pellapra
- 1954 · Cadet Rousselle as Marguerite de Beaufort
- 1954 · Quai des blondes as Nelly
- 1953 · L'aventurière du Tchad as Fanny Lacour
- 1953 · Lightly and Shortly Dressed as Jacqueline Vermorel
- 1953 · Mandat d'amener as
- 1953 · L'Étrange Amazone as
- 1952 · Fortuné de Marseille as Tonia
- 1951 · Paris Still Sings! as Gisèle
- 1951 · Sins of Madeleine as Malou
- 1950 · Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! as Aurélie Lambrusque
- 1950 · Cage of Gold as Marie
- 1948 · The Secret of Monte-Cristo as Marguerite Vigouroux
- 1947 · The Royalists as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
- 1944 · Music for Millions as Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
- 1943 · Paris After Dark as Collette
- 1943 · Casablanca as Yvonne
- 1942 · Gentleman Jim as Anna Held
- 1941 · Hold Back the Dawn as Anni
- 1939 · Girls in Distress as Une élève de la pension