Madeleine Lebeau
Acting
Born June 10, 1923, Antony, France
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
- 1970« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur — Mlle Lambert
- 1965La vuelta
- 1964Angelique — La Grande Mademoiselle
- 1964Gunmen Of The Rio Grande — Jennie Lee
- 19638½ — Madeleine, the French Actress
- 1959Way of Youth — Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul
- 1959You Have Nothing to Declare? — Gloria Frontignac
- 1958Life Together — Peggy
- 1957La Parisienne — Monique Wilson
- 1956The Country I Come From
- 1955Napoleon — Emilie Pellapra
- 1955The Miller's Saucy Wife — Jacqueline
- 1954Cadet Rousselle — Marguerite de Beaufort
- 1954Quai des blondes — Nelly
- 1953L'Étrange Amazone
- 1953LAventurière du Tchad — Fanny Lacour
- 1953Lightly and Shortly Dressed — Jacqueline Vermorel
- 1953Mandat d'amener — Françoise Delanglade
- 1952Fortuné de Marseille — Tonia
- 1951Paris Still Sings! — Gisèle
- 1951Sins of Madeleine — Malou
- 1950Cage of Gold — Marie
- 1950Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! — Aurélie Lambrusque
- 1948The Secret of Monte-Cristo — Marguerite Vigouroux
- 1947The Royalists — Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
- 1944Music for Millions — Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
- 1943Casablanca — Yvonne
- 1943Paris After Dark — Collette
- 1942Gentleman Jim — Anna Held
- 1941Hold Back the Dawn — Anni
- 1939Girls in Distress — Une élève de la pension