
Madeleine Lebeau
Known for acting · Born 10 June 1923 · Died 1 May 2016 · aged 92 · Antony, France
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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

Casablanca
1943

8½
1963

Lightly and Shortly Dressed
1953

La Parisienne
1957

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964

The Royalists
1947

Cadet Rousselle
1954

Quai des blondes
1954

Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
1950

Sins of Madeleine
1951

Gentleman Jim
1942

L'Étrange Amazone
1953