Madeleine Lebeau
Acting
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 31
Movies (31)
- « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur1970Mlle Lambert
- La vuelta1965
Angelique1964La Grande Mademoiselle
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande1964Jennie Lee
8½1963Madeleine, the French Actress
Way of Youth1959Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul
You Have Nothing to Declare?1959Gloria Frontignac
Life Together1958Peggy
La Parisienne1957Monique Wilson
The Country I Come From1956
The Miller's Saucy Wife1955Jacqueline
Napoleon1955Emilie Pellapra
Cadet Rousselle1954Marguerite de Beaufort
Quai des blondes1954Nelly
LAventurière du Tchad1953Fanny Lacour
Lightly and Shortly Dressed1953Jacqueline Vermorel
Mandat d'amener1953Françoise Delanglade
L'Étrange Amazone1953
Fortuné de Marseille1952Tonia
Paris Still Sings!1951Gisèle
Sins of Madeleine1951Malou
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!1950Aurélie Lambrusque
Cage of Gold1950Marie
The Secret of Monte-Cristo1948Marguerite Vigouroux
The Royalists1947Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
Music for Millions1944Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
Paris After Dark1943Collette
Casablanca1943Yvonne
Gentleman Jim1942Anna Held
Hold Back the Dawn1941Anni