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.
Known For
All Movies (31)
- « Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur1970 · as Mlle Lambert
- La vuelta1965
- Angelique1964 · as La Grande Mademoiselle
- Gunmen Of The Rio Grande1964 · as Jennie Lee
- 8½1963 · as Madeleine, the French Actress
- Way of Youth1959 · as Flora, peite-amie éconduite de Paul
- You Have Nothing to Declare?1959 · as Gloria Frontignac
- Life Together1958 · as Peggy
- La Parisienne1957 · as Monique Wilson
- The Country I Come From1956
- The Miller's Saucy Wife1955 · as Jacqueline
- Napoleon1955 · as Emilie Pellapra
- Cadet Rousselle1954 · as Marguerite de Beaufort
- Quai des blondes1954 · as Nelly
- Lightly and Shortly Dressed1953 · as Jacqueline Vermorel
- LAventurière du Tchad1953 · as Fanny Lacour
- Mandat d'amener1953 · as Françoise Delanglade
- L'Étrange Amazone1953
- Fortuné de Marseille1952 · as Tonia
- Paris Still Sings!1951 · as Gisèle
- Sins of Madeleine1951 · as Malou
- Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!1950 · as Aurélie Lambrusque
- Cage of Gold1950 · as Marie
- The Secret of Monte-Cristo1948 · as Marguerite Vigouroux
- The Royalists1947 · as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
- Music for Millions1944 · as Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
- Paris After Dark1943 · as Collette
- Casablanca1943 · as Yvonne
- Gentleman Jim1942 · as Anna Held
- Hold Back the Dawn1941 · as Anni
- Girls in Distress1939 · as Une élève de la pension