Madeleine Lebeau
Born: 1923-06-10 in Antony, France
Died: 2016-05-01
Known For: 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
1970
- « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur as Mlle Lambert
1965
1964
- Gunmen Of The Rio Grande as Jennie Lee
- Angelique as La Grande Mademoiselle
1963
- 8½ as Madeleine, the French Actress
1959
- You Have Nothing to Declare? as Gloria Frontignac
1958
- Life Together as Peggy
1957
- La Parisienne as Monique Wilson
1955
- Napoleon as Emilie Pellapra
- The Miller's Saucy Wife as Jacqueline
1954
- Quai des blondes as Nelly
- Cadet Rousselle as Marguerite de Beaufort
1953
- L'Étrange Amazone
- Mandat d'amener as Françoise Delanglade
- Lightly and Shortly Dressed as Jacqueline Vermorel
- L'aventurière du Tchad as Fanny Lacour
1952
- Fortuné de Marseille as Tonia
1951
- Sins of Madeleine as Malou
- Paris Still Sings! as Gisèle
1950
- Cage of Gold as Marie
- Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! as Aurélie Lambrusque
1948
- The Secret of Monte-Cristo as Marguerite Vigouroux
1947
- The Royalists as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
1944
- Music for Millions as Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
1943
- Casablanca as Yvonne
- Paris After Dark as Collette
1942
- Gentleman Jim as Anna Held
1941
- Hold Back the Dawn as Anni
1939
- Girls in Distress as Une élève de la pension