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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- 1970 ·« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeuras Mlle Lambert
- 1965 ·La vueltaas
- 1964 ·Angeliqueas La Grande Mademoiselle
- 1964 ·Gunmen Of The Rio Grandeas Jennie Lee
- 1963 ·8½as Madeleine, the French Actress
- 1959 ·You Have Nothing to Declare?as Gloria Frontignac
- 1958 ·Life Togetheras Peggy
- 1957 ·La Parisienneas Monique Wilson
- 1956 ·The Country I Come Fromas
- 1955 ·The Miller's Saucy Wifeas Jacqueline
- 1955 ·Napoleonas Emilie Pellapra
- 1954 ·Cadet Rousselleas Marguerite de Beaufort
- 1954 ·Quai des blondesas Nelly
- 1953 ·Lightly and Shortly Dressedas Jacqueline Vermorel
- 1953 ·L'aventurière du Tchadas Fanny Lacour
- 1953 ·Mandat d'ameneras
- 1953 ·L'Étrange Amazoneas
- 1952 ·Fortuné de Marseilleas Tonia
- 1951 ·Paris Still Sings!as Gisèle
- 1951 ·Sins of Madeleineas Malou
- 1950 ·Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!as Aurélie Lambrusque
- 1950 ·Cage of Goldas Marie
- 1948 ·The Secret of Monte-Cristoas Marguerite Vigouroux
- 1947 ·The Royalistsas Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
- 1944 ·Music for Millionsas Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
- 1943 ·Paris After Darkas Collette
- 1943 ·Casablancaas Yvonne
- 1942 ·Gentleman Jimas Anna Held
- 1941 ·Hold Back the Dawnas Anni
- 1939 ·Girls in Distressas Une élève de la pension