'Casablanca' actress Madeleine LeBeau dies
She was not on the list.
Madeleine LeBeau, widely believed to be the last surviving
credited cast member from the classic film "Casablanca," has died, her
stepson said. She was 92.
LeBeau played Yvonne, the jilted mistress of Humphrey
Bogart's character, Rick.
LeBeau died May 1 in Spain after breaking her thigh bone, her stepson, Carlo Alberto Pinelli, told CNN.
In addition to her role in "Casablanca," LeBeau
also appeared in the 1950 film "Cage of Gold" and in Federico
Fellini's 1963 film "8 1/2," according to CNN sister network Turner
Classic Movies.
According to IMDB.com, there were parallels between LeBeau's
role in "Casablanca" and her life. The French actress escaped
Nazi-occupied France, fleeing with her then-husband, Marcel Dalio, who also had
a role in "Casablanca."
"While the plot of Casablanca traces the movements of
European refugees through Morocco, a look at the actors involved in the
production also tells a story of émigrés," the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences noted in a 2014 article about LeBeau and other artists who
fled Europe and appeared in the film.
Records indicate that actors from 34 different countries
participated in "Casablanca," according to the Academy.
LeBeau was born in 1923 in Hauts-de-Seine, France, according
to IMDB. She was married to Dalio, who played a croupier in Casablanca, from
1938-1942.
She later married Italian screenwriter Tullio Pinelli, whose
writing credits included "La Dolce Vita," "8 1/2" and
"La strada."
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
1942 Casablanca Yvonne
1943 Paris After
Dark Collette
1944 Music for
Millions Jane
1947 The Royalists
Marie de Verneuil
1948 Le secret de
Monte-Cristo (The Secret of Monte-Cristo) Marguerite
Vigouroux
1950 Cage of Gold Marie
1950 Et moi j'te
dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! Aurélie
Lambrusque
1951 Sins of
Madeleine Malou
1951 Paris Still
Sings Gisèle
1952 Fortuné de
Marseille Tonia
1953 L'étrange
amazone Eliane
1953 Mandat
d'amener Françoise Delanglade
1953 Légère et
court vêtue (Lightly and Shortly Dressed) Jacqueline
Lorette / Kiki
1953 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
1954 Quai des
blondes [fr] Nelly
1954 Cadet
Rousselle Marguerite de
Beaufort
1955 Napoléon Emilie Pellapra
1955 La pícara
molinera Jacqueline
1956 Le pays d'où
je viens (The Country I Come From) Adrienne
Terreau
1957 La Parisienne
Monique Wilson
1958 La Vie à deux
(Life for Two) Peggy
1959 Vous n'avez
rien à déclarer? Gloria Frontignac
1959 Le chemin des
écoliers (Way of Youth) Flora
1963 8½ Madeleine, the French actress
1964 Desafío en
Río Bravo (Gunmen of the Rio Grande) Jennie
Lee
1964 Angélique,
Marquise des Anges La Grande Demoiselle
1965 La vuelta
1967 La
bouquetière des innocents Marie de
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