Madeleine Lebeau

Madeleine Lebeau

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: Acting

Born: Antony, France, 1923-06-10

Died: 2016-05-01

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	Girls in Distress	Une élève de la pension	45
2	1941	Hold Back the Dawn	Anni	67
3	1942	Gentleman Jim	Anna Held	72
4	1943	Casablanca	Yvonne	82
5	1943	Paris After Dark	Collette	56
6	1944	Music for Millions	Jane (as Madeleine LeBeau)	60
7	1947	The Royalists	Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil	70
8	1948	The Secret of Monte-Cristo	Marguerite Vigouroux	0
9	1950	Cage of Gold	Marie	66
10	1950	Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!	Aurélie Lambrusque	10
11	1951	Sins of Madeleine	Malou	55
12	1951	Paris Still Sings!	Gisèle	0
13	1952	Fortuné de Marseille	Tonia	0
14	1953	L'Étrange Amazone		0
15	1953	Mandat d'amener	Françoise Delanglade	0
16	1953	Lightly and Shortly Dressed	Jacqueline Vermorel	52
17	1953	L'aventurière du Tchad	Fanny Lacour	0
18	1954	Quai des blondes	Nelly	53
19	1954	Cadet Rousselle	Marguerite de Beaufort	50
20	1955	Napoleon	Emilie Pellapra	66
21	1955	The Miller's Saucy Wife	Jacqueline	50
22	1956	The Country I Come From		64
23	1957	La Parisienne	Monique Wilson	56
24	1958	Life Together	Peggy	61
25	1959	You Have Nothing to Declare?	Gloria Frontignac	58
26	1963	8½	Madeleine, the French Actress	81
27	1964	Gunmen Of The Rio Grande	Jennie Lee	52
28	1964	Angelique	La Grande Mademoiselle	67
29	1965	La vuelta		0
30	1970	« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur	Mlle Lambert	0

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1939