Madeleine LeBeau (born either Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau on 10 June 1923 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France or as Marie Therese Ernestine on 22 February 1921 in Bourg-la-Reine, France) is a French actress.
LeBeau married actor Marcel Dalio in 1938 (his second marriage). They had met while performing a play together. In 1939 she appeared in her first movie, the melodrama Jeunes filles en détresse (Girls in Distress).
In June 1940, LeBeau and the...
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Madeleine LeBeau (born either Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau on 10 June 1923 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France or as Marie Therese Ernestine on 22 February 1921 in Bourg-la-Reine, France) is a French actress.
LeBeau married actor Marcel Dalio in 1938 (his second marriage). They had met while performing a play together. In 1939 she appeared in her first movie, the melodrama Jeunes filles en détresse (Girls in Distress).
In June 1940, LeBeau and the Jewish Dalio fled Paris ahead of the invading German army and reached Lisbon. It took them two months to obtain visas to Chile. However, when their ship stopped in Mexico, they were stranded (along with around 200 other passengers) when the visas they had purchased turned out to be forgeries. Eventually, they were able to get temporary Canadian passports and entered the United States.
Lebeau made her Hollywood debut in Olivia de Havilland's Hold Back the Dawn (1941). The following year, she received a good role in the Errol Flynn movie...
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