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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Full filmography
- Casablanca (1943) as Yvonne
- 8½ (1963) as Madeleine, the French Actress
- Angelique (1964) as La Grande Mademoiselle
- Napoleon (1955) as Emilie Pellapra
- Gentleman Jim (1942) as Anna Held
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941) as Anni
- La Parisienne (1957) as Monique Wilson
- Way of Youth (1959) as Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul
- Cage of Gold (1950) as Marie
- Gunmen Of The Rio Grande (1964) as Jennie Lee
- The Country I Come From (1956)
- Life Together (1958) as Peggy
- Cadet Rousselle (1954) as Marguerite de Beaufort
- Girls in Distress (1939) as Une élève de la pension
- The Secret of Monte-Cristo (1948) as Marguerite Vigouroux
- Music for Millions (1944) as Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
- The Royalists (1947) as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
- L'Étrange Amazone (1953)
- Paris After Dark (1943) as Collette
- Mandat d'amener (1953) as Françoise Delanglade
- You Have Nothing to Declare? (1959) as Gloria Frontignac
- Quai des blondes (1954) as Nelly
- « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur (1970) as Mlle Lambert
- Lightly and Shortly Dressed (1953) as Jacqueline Vermorel