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Sunday, May 15, 2016
Madeleine Lebeau
Actress; last living member of the cast of "Casablanca" -- via the BBC. She was only 19 when she played Yvonne, the spurned lover of Rick (Bogie). She had just escaped the Nazis with her husband, the great actor Marcel Dalio. Soon after this film, he filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion; they then made "Paris After Dark" together. She will be remembered from her work in Fellini's "8 1/2" as well.
