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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Casablanca (1943) — Yvonne
2. 8½ (1963) — Madeleine, the French Actress
3. Angelique (1964) — La Grande Mademoiselle
4. Gentleman Jim (1942) — Anna Held
5. Hold Back the Dawn (1941) — Anni
6. La Parisienne (1957) — Monique Wilson
7. Napoleon (1955) — Emilie Pellapra
8. Way of Youth (1959) — Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul
9. Cadet Rousselle (1954) — Marguerite de Beaufort
10. Life Together (1958) — Peggy
11. Cage of Gold (1950) — Marie
12. Lightly and Shortly Dressed (1953) — Jacqueline Vermorel
13. The Country I Come From (1956)
14. Gunmen Of The Rio Grande (1964) — Jennie Lee
15. The Royalists (1947) — Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
16. Music for Millions (1944) — Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
17. You Have Nothing to Declare? (1959) — Gloria Frontignac
18. Paris After Dark (1943) — Collette
19. Girls in Distress (1939) — Une élève de la pension
20. Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! (1950) — Aurélie Lambrusque
21. Quai des blondes (1954) — Nelly
22. Sins of Madeleine (1951) — Malou
23. The Miller's Saucy Wife (1955) — Jacqueline
24. « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur (1970) — Mlle Lambert
25. Paris Still Sings! (1951) — Gisèle
26. Fortuné de Marseille (1952) — Tonia
27. L'Étrange Amazone (1953)
28. Mandat d'amener (1953) — Françoise Delanglade
29. LAventurière du Tchad (1953) — Fanny Lacour
30. The Secret of Monte-Cristo (1948) — Marguerite Vigouroux
31. La vuelta (1965)