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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.
As actor
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La vuelta
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Angelique
8½
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Way of Youth
Life Together
La Parisienne
The Country I Come From
The Miller's Saucy Wife
Napoleon
Cadet Rousselle
Quai des blondes
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
L'Étrange Amazone
Mandat d'amener
LAventurière du Tchad
Fortuné de Marseille
Paris Still Sings!
Sins of Madeleine
Cage of Gold
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
The Royalists
Music for Millions
Casablanca
Paris After Dark
Gentleman Jim
Hold Back the Dawn