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.
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Movie Appearances
Casablanca
as Yvonne
1943
8½
as Madeleine, the French Actress
1963
« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
as Mlle Lambert
1970
Gentleman Jim
as Anna Held
1942
Hold Back the Dawn
as Anni
1941
The Royalists
as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
1947
Paris Still Sings!
as Gisèle
1951
Cadet Rousselle
as Marguerite de Beaufort
1954
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
as Jacqueline Vermorel
1953
Fortuné de Marseille
as Tonia
1952
Cage of Gold
as Marie
1950
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Jennie Lee
1964
You Have Nothing to Declare?
as Gloria Frontignac
1959
Paris After Dark
as Collette
1943
Angelique
as La Grande Mademoiselle
1964
Life Together
as Peggy
1958
L'Étrange Amazone
1953
Mandat d'amener
as Françoise Delanglade
1953
L'aventurière du Tchad
as Fanny Lacour
1953
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
as Aurélie Lambrusque
1950