Acting
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
1943 · Movie
8½
1963 · Movie
Angelique
1964 · Movie
Napoleon
1955 · Movie
Gentleman Jim
1942 · Movie
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Movie
La Parisienne
1957 · Movie
Way of Youth
1959 · Movie
Cadet Rousselle
1954 · Movie
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964 · Movie
Life Together
1958 · Movie
The Royalists
1947 · Movie
Music for Millions
1944 · Movie
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
1953 · Movie
Cage of Gold
1950 · Movie
The Country I Come From
1956 · Movie
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
1948 · Movie
Girls in Distress
1939 · Movie
Quai des blondes
1954 · Movie
Mandat d'amener
1953 · Movie
Paris After Dark
1943 · Movie
Paris Still Sings!
1951 · Movie
You Have Nothing to Declare?
1959 · Movie
Sins of Madeleine
1951 · Movie
LAventurière du Tchad
1953 · Movie
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955 · Movie
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
1950 · Movie
Fortuné de Marseille
1952 · Movie
L'Étrange Amazone
1953 · Movie
