Madeleine Lebeau
ActingAlso Known As
Marie Madeleine Berthe 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
(30 total)
Casablanca
as Yvonne
8½
as Madeleine, the French Actress
Angelique
as La Grande Mademoiselle
Gentleman Jim
as Anna Held
Hold Back the Dawn
as Anni
La Parisienne
as Monique Wilson
Napoleon
as Emilie Pellapra
Cadet Rousselle
as Marguerite de Beaufort
Life Together
as Peggy
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
as Jacqueline Vermorel
Cage of Gold
as Marie
The Royalists
as Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
as Jennie Lee
Music for Millions
as Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
You Have Nothing to Declare?
as Gloria Frontignac
Paris After Dark
as Collette
Girls in Distress
as Une élève de la pension
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
as Aurélie Lambrusque
Quai des blondes
as Nelly