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.
Acted in 29
1960s
- 1964
- 1963
1950s
- 1959
Way of Youth
Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Gloria Frontignac
- 1958
Life Together
Peggy
- 1957
- 1956
The Country I Come From
Movie
- 1955
The Miller's Saucy Wife
Jacqueline
- 1954
Cadet Rousselle
Marguerite de Beaufort
Quai des blondes
Nelly
- 1953
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
Jacqueline Vermorel
LAventurière du Tchad
Fanny Lacour
Mandat d'amener
Françoise Delanglade
L'Étrange Amazone
Movie
- 1952
Fortuné de Marseille
Tonia
- 1951
Paris Still Sings!
Gisèle
Sins of Madeleine
Malou
- 1950
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
Aurélie Lambrusque
Cage of Gold
Marie
1940s
- 1948
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Marguerite Vigouroux
- 1947
The Royalists
Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
- 1944
Music for Millions
Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
- 1943
Paris After Dark
Collette
- 1942
- 1941
Hold Back the Dawn
Anni
1930s
- 1939
Girls in Distress
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