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.
Movie | « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur | Mlle Lambert | 1970-07-20 |
Movie | Gunmen Of The Rio Grande | Jennie Lee | 1964-11-19 |
Movie | Angelique | La Grande Mademoiselle | 1964-12-08 |
Movie | 8½ | Madeleine, the French Actress | 1963-02-14 |
Movie | You Have Nothing to Declare? | Gloria Frontignac | 1959-08-29 |
Movie | Life Together | Peggy | 1958-09-24 |
Movie | La Parisienne | Monique Wilson | 1957-12-16 |
Movie | The Country I Come From | 1956-10-19 | |
Movie | Napoleon | Emilie Pellapra | 1955-03-25 |
Movie | The Miller's Saucy Wife | Jacqueline | 1955-12-05 |
Movie | Cadet Rousselle | Marguerite de Beaufort | 1954-10-20 |
Movie | L'étrange amazone | 1953-04-19 | |
Movie | Lightly and Shortly Dressed | Jacqueline Vermorel | 1953-11-06 |
Movie | Fortuné de Marseille | Tonia | 1952-06-13 |
Movie | Sins of Madeleine | Malou | 1951-08-09 |
Movie | Paris Still Sings! | Gisèle | 1951-11-28 |
Movie | Cage of Gold | Marie | 1950-10-23 |
Movie | Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! | Aurélie Lambrusque | 1950-12-20 |
Movie | The Secret of Monte-Cristo | Marguerite Vigouroux | 1948-09-17 |
Movie | The Royalists | Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil | 1947-03-20 |
Movie | Music for Millions | Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau) | 1944-12-18 |
Movie | Casablanca | Yvonne | 1943-01-15 |
Movie | Paris After Dark | Collette | 1943-10-15 |
Movie | Gentleman Jim | Anna Held | 1942-11-14 |
Movie | Hold Back the Dawn | Anni | 1941-09-26 |
Movie | Girls in Distress | Une élève de la pension | 1939-01-10 |