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.
Filmography
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« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
1970
as Mlle Lambert
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La vuelta
1965
Angelique
1964
as La Grande Mademoiselle
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964
as Jennie Lee
8½
1963
as Madeleine, the French Actress
Way of Youth
1959
as Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul
You Have Nothing to Declare?
1959
as Gloria Frontignac
Life Together
1958
as Peggy
La Parisienne
1957
as Monique Wilson
The Country I Come From
1956
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
as Jacqueline
Napoleon
1955
as Emilie Pellapra
Cadet Rousselle
1954
as Marguerite de Beaufort
Quai des blondes
1954
as Nelly
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
1953
as Jacqueline Vermorel
LAventurière du Tchad
1953
as Fanny Lacour
Mandat d'amener
1953
as Françoise Delanglade
L'Étrange Amazone
1953
Fortuné de Marseille
1952
as Tonia
Paris Still Sings!
1951
as Gisèle
Sins of Madeleine
1951
as Malou
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
1950
as Aurélie Lambrusque
Cage of Gold
1950
as Marie
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
1948
as Marguerite Vigouroux