Madeleine Lebeau
Actor
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.
Filmography
8½
as Madeleine, the French Actress 1963
Angelique
as La Grande Mademoiselle 1964
Gentleman Jim
as Anna Held 1942
Hold Back the Dawn
as Anni 1941
La Parisienne
as Monique Wilson 1957
Napoleon
as Emilie Pellapra 1955
Cadet Rousselle
as Marguerite de Beaufort 1954
Life Together
as Peggy 1958
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
as Jacqueline Vermorel 1953
Cage of Gold
as Marie 1950
The Country I Come From
1956
The Royalists
as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil 1947
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Jennie Lee 1964
Music for Millions
as Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau) 1944
You Have Nothing to Declare?
as Gloria Frontignac 1959
Paris After Dark
as Collette 1943