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. 

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Casablanca

Yvonne

Movie 1943

Madeleine, the French Actress

Movie 1963

« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur

Mlle Lambert

Movie 1970

Hold Back the Dawn

Anni

Movie 1941

The Royalists

Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil

Movie 1947

Paris Still Sings!

Gisèle

Movie 1951

Cadet Rousselle

Marguerite de Beaufort

Movie 1954

Lightly and Shortly Dressed

Jacqueline Vermorel

Movie 1953

Fortuné de Marseille

Tonia

Movie 1952

Cage of Gold

Marie

Movie 1950

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande

Jennie Lee

Movie 1964

You Have Nothing to Declare?

Gloria Frontignac

Movie 1959

Paris After Dark

Collette

Movie 1943

Life Together

Peggy

Movie 1958

L'Étrange Amazone

Movie 1953

Mandat d'amener

Movie 1953

L'aventurière du Tchad

Fanny Lacour

Movie 1953

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

Aurélie Lambrusque

Movie 1950

The Country I Come From

Movie 1956

Girls in Distress

Une élève de la pension

Movie 1939

La Parisienne

Monique Wilson

Movie 1957

Sins of Madeleine

Malou

Movie 1951

The Miller's Saucy Wife

Jacqueline

Movie 1955

The Secret of Monte-Cristo

Marguerite Vigouroux

Movie 1948

Napoleon

Emilie Pellapra

Movie 1955

Quai des blondes

Nelly

Movie 1954

La vuelta

Movie 1965