Madeleine LeBeau

Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau (; 10 June 1923 – 1 May 2016) was a French film actress who also appeared in American films, most notably Casablanca.

Early life Lebeau married actor Marcel Dalio in 1939; it was his second marriage. They had met while performing a play together. She had already appeared in her first film, an uncredited role as a student in the melodrama Young Girls in Trouble (Jeunes filles en détresse, 1939).

Casablanca Later that year she was cast in the role of Yvonne, Humphrey Bogart's character's discarded mistress, in Casablanca. Warner Bros. signed her to a $100-a-week contract for twenty-six weeks to be in a number of films. On 22 June, while she was filming her scenes in Casablanca, her husband, Marcel Dalio, who played Emil the croupier in the same film, filed for divorce in Los Angeles on the ground of desertion. They divorced in 1942. Shortly before the release of the film, Warner Bros. terminated her contract. After Joy Page died in April 2008, Lebeau was the last surviving credited cast member of Casablanca.

She told Charlotte Chandler, author of a biography of female lead Ingrid Bergman, in the 1990s: "It wasn't that I was cut out, it was because they kept changing the script, and each time they changed it, I had less of a part". "It was not personal, but I was so disappointed".

After Casablanca Following Casablanca, Lebeau appeared in two further American films. The first was a large role in the war drama Paris After Dark (1943), with her former husband. The following year, Lebeau had a smaller role in Music for Millions. Courtesy of MGM, Lebeau helped entertain the troops at Camp Roberts, California in 1943, starring in The Desert Song. She appeared on Broadway in the play The French Touch in a production directed by René Clair. French culture minister Audrey Azoulay said of Madelaine Lebeau after her death: "She was a free woman who lived by her own rules, totally inhabiting the roles entrusted to her by leading directors. She will forever be the face of the French resistance."

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1939 Jeunes filles en détresse (Girls in Distress) Une élève de la pension Uncredited 1941 Hold Back the Dawn Anni 1942 Gentleman Jim Anna Held Casablanca Yvonne 1943 Paris After Dark Collette 1944 Music for Millions Jane 1947 The Royalists Marie de Verneuil 1948 The Secret of Monte Cristo Marguerite Vigouroux 1950 Cage of Gold Marie Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! Aurélie Lambrusque 1951 Sins of Madeleine Malou Paris Still Sings Gisèle 1952 Fortuné de Marseille Tonia 1953 L'étrange amazone Eliane Mandat d'amener Françoise Delanglade Légère et court vêtue (Lightly and Shortly Dressed) Jacqueline Lorette / Kiki L'aventurière du Tchad (The Adventurer of Chad) Fanny Lacour 1954 Si Versailles m'était conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles) Une dame de la cour Uncredited Quay of Blondes Nelly Cadet Rousselle Marguerite de Beaufort 1955 Napoléon Emilie Pellapra La pícara molinera Jacqueline 1956 Le pays d'où je viens (The Country I Come From) Adrienne Terreau 1957 La Parisienne Monique Wilson 1958 Life Together Peggy 1959 Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? Gloria Frontignac Le chemin des écoliers (Way of Youth) Flora 1963 8½ Madeleine, the French actress 1964 Gunmen of the Rio Grande Jennie Lee Angélique, Marquise des Anges La Grande Demoiselle 1965 La vuelta 1967 La bouquetière des innocents Marie de Médicis TV movie