Madeleine LeBeau in a still from Casablanca.
Highlights
- Actress Madeleine LeBeau died at the age of 92
- Madeleine LeBeau has worked in films like The Royalists, Cage of Gold
- In Casablanca, she played the role of late actor Humphrey Bogart's lover
French actress Madeleine LeBeau, the last surviving cast member of 1942 film
Casablanca died at 92.
Ms LeBeau died on May 1 in Estepona, Spain, after breaking her thigh bone, her stepson, documentary filmmaker and environmentalist Carlo Alberto Pinelli told
hollywoodreporter.com .
In
Casablanca, Ms LeBeau played the role of late actor Humphrey Bogart's spurned lover.
Born in 1923 near Paris, she fled Nazi-occupied France with her then husband, prominent actor Marcel Dalio in 1940.
Following
Casablanca and her divorce from Mr Dalio in 1942, Ms LeBeau had a prominent role in the film
Paris After Dark (1943) and then appeared in
Music for Millions (1944).
She returned to Europe after the war and worked in films such as
The Royalists (1947),
Cage of Gold (1950),
Sins of Madeleine (1951) and
La Parisienne (1957).
Ms LeBeau was also married to Tullio Pinelli, a screenwriter who earned an Oscar nominations for
8 1/2 and
I Vitelloni (1953),
La Strada (1954) and
La Dolce Vita (1960). They were married from 1988 until his death in March 2009 at the age of 100.