Madeleine Lebeau
ActingMadeleine 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
Casablanca
Yvonne
8½
Madeleine, the French Actress
Angelique
La Grande Mademoiselle
Gentleman Jim
Anna Held
Napoleon
Emilie Pellapra
Hold Back the Dawn
Anni
La Parisienne
Monique Wilson
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Jennie Lee
Cage of Gold
Marie
The Royalists
Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
Filmography — Acting
Casablanca
Yvonne
8½
Madeleine, the French Actress
Angelique
La Grande Mademoiselle
Gentleman Jim
Anna Held
Napoleon
Emilie Pellapra
Hold Back the Dawn
Anni
La Parisienne
Monique Wilson
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Jennie Lee
Cage of Gold
Marie
The Royalists
Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil
The Country I Come From
Life Together
Peggy
Cadet Rousselle
Marguerite de Beaufort
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Gloria Frontignac
Quai des blondes
Nelly
Music for Millions
Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)
Paris After Dark
Collette
Mandat d'amener
Françoise Delanglade
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Marguerite Vigouroux
Girls in Distress
Une élève de la pension
« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
Mlle Lambert
Sins of Madeleine
Malou
La vuelta
Paris Still Sings!
Gisèle
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
Jacqueline Vermorel
L'aventurière du Tchad
Fanny Lacour
The Miller's Saucy Wife
Jacqueline
Fortuné de Marseille
Tonia
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
Aurélie Lambrusque
