Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1923-06-10
Day of Death
2016-05-01
Place of Birth
Antony, France
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.
Filmography (31)
« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
1970La vuelta
1965
Angelique
1964
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964
8½
1963
Way of Youth
1959
You Have Nothing to Declare?
1959
Life Together
1958
La Parisienne
1957
The Country I Come From
1956
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
Napoleon
1955
Cadet Rousselle
1954
Quai des blondes
1954
