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