Madeleine Lebeau
Biography: Madeleine LeBeau, was a French actress who played Humphrey Bogart’s jilted mistress Yvonne, in “Casablanca,” In “Casablanca,” LeBeau gets teary-eyed when “La Marseillaise” is played and shouts “Viva la France!” She was among several cast members who were actually refugees from the German occupation. Her life echoed the film: After she made her screen debut in French film “Girls in Distress” in 1939, LeBeau and her husband, actor Marcel Dalio, fled Paris for Portugal. They were said to have received transit visas that allowed them to enter Spain and then Portugal before continuing on towards Chile. They were stranded in Mexico when their visas turned out to be forgeries and were able to enter the United States with temporary Canadian passports.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 10, 1923
Deathday: May 01, 2016
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Casablanca
1943-01-15
Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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8½
1963-02-14
8½
Overview: Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
1970-07-20
« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-20
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Gentleman Jim
1942-11-14
Gentleman Jim
Overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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Hold Back the Dawn
1941-09-26
Hold Back the Dawn
Overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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The Royalists
1947-03-20
The Royalists
Overview: The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-20
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Paris Still Sings!
1951-11-28
Paris Still Sings!
Overview: A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins embark on the race for signatures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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Cadet Rousselle
1954-10-20
Cadet Rousselle
Overview: The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot.
Genres: Comedy History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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Lightly and Shortly Dressed
1953-11-06
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
Overview: Jacqueline and Jacques, newlyweds, are in frequent discussions. The cause is Jacqueline's flirtatious nature, which she has not been able to shake off despite her marriage. One of her tennis partners, Pierre, declares his love for her, but Jacqueline advises him to marry Simone instead. Meanwhile, the husband is approached by an unsympathetic character who suggests that Jacqueline is his mistress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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Fortuné de Marseille
1952-06-13
Fortuné de Marseille
Overview: A rich businessman, threatened by his pregnant mistress, decides to make him marry a man who falls in love with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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Cage of Gold
1950-10-23
Cage of Gold
Overview: The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
1964-11-19
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Overview: Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-19
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You Have Nothing to Declare?
1959-08-29
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Overview: Married against her will to the Comte de Trivelin, Paulette Dupont shares her anxieties with her childhood friend Labaule. Warned too late to prevent the ceremony from taking place, Labaule follows the couple on their honeymoon and prevents the consummation of the marriage by repeatedly intruding on the couple's privacy. Put on notice by Paulette's parents to consummate the marriage, Trivelin - who believes himself to be at fault - consults a psychiatrist. The latter advises him to visit a lady of lesser virtue: Gloria. But Gloria's clientele includes Dupont himself - Paulette's father - and Labaule!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-08-29
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Paris After Dark
1943-10-15
Paris After Dark
Overview: Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities, but her Nazi-brainwashed husband provides the tension.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-15
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Angelique
1964-12-08
Angelique
Overview: In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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Life Together
1958-09-24
Life Together
Overview: The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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L'Étrange Amazone
1953-04-19
L'Étrange Amazone
Overview: Michel, a young painter in poor health, enters the grounds of a château and faints when he sees a haughty young woman in the simplest of garb. The chatelaine, Eliane, takes care of him and calls in Pierre Fournier, a Parisian doctor. A disreputable Count Ostrowsky turns up to blackmail her. He is found murdered. But who's the killer? Pierre or Eliane? Quite simply Michel, who, before dying, showed his gratitude to the woman who had taken him in. Pierre and Eliane were living apart, but they were husband and wife. Such adventures unite them, this time, forever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-19
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Mandat d'amener
1953-08-02
Mandat d'amener
Overview: Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the ensuing investigation, the Public Prosecutor discovers the troubled past of the industrialist and his front man, Jacques Perthuis, an ex-convict. They themselves set fire to the factory to collect the insurance premium. Gérard Latour, suspecting his mistress of complicity in her husband's machinations, leaves her after a stormy argument.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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L'aventurière du Tchad
1953-11-06
L'aventurière du Tchad
Overview: Alain de Blomette, a family man, is in danger of becoming a deviant under the influence of his mistress Fanny Lacourt. He steals a bracelet, loses at gambling and contemplates suicide. His family intervenes and sends him to Equatorial Africa. Fanny, stubborn, joins him there, stirring up trouble on the plantation. The guns start talking. Alain's rival collapses and Fanny is mortally wounded. More devious than ever, Alain indulges in regrettable excesses. A fatherly inspector finally intervenes to instill in him a sense of honor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
1950-12-20
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
Overview: André Courvalin, a merry bachelor, considers marrying, but not his exuberant mistress Aurélie. He would much rather wed sweet Suzanne. Trouble is that Suzanne is already engaged to Yves, one of his friends. But every problem has its solution. Accordingly, André finalizes a cynical stratagem. He sends Yves to negotiate his own breakup with Aurélie while he warns Aurélie's husband about Yves' presence by her side.All goes according to plan : Yves is mistakenly taken for Aurélie's husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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The Country I Come From
1956-10-19
The Country I Come From
Overview: One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty waitress, but he is too shy to make any romantic overtures. Eric decides to give the course of true love a helping hand by pretending to be Julien. Meanwhile, Eric’s fabulously wealthy uncle has sent his minions out to bring him back home, so that he may celebrate Christmas in the bosom of his family.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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Girls in Distress
1939-01-10
Girls in Distress
Overview: Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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La Parisienne
1957-12-16
La Parisienne
Overview: The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-16
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Sins of Madeleine
1951-08-09
Sins of Madeleine
Overview: Malou, a prostitute from Montmartre, and her pimp, have found a well laid scheme : whenever she (or he) wants to get rid of a lover, she announces to him in a tearful voice that she is pregnant. The reaction of the fall guy-is invariable: he gives her compensation money and disappears. But there is always an exception to the rule. And, as it happens, the exception is a widowed insurer, Monsieur Archibald. Indeed when he is told by Malou that he is going to be a father, he is...elated!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955-12-05
The Miller's Saucy Wife
Overview: In a region of Andalusia, all the men lust after the miller's young wife.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-12-05
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The Secret of Monte-Cristo
1948-09-17
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Overview: One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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Napoleon
1955-03-25
Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Music for Millions
1944-12-18
Music for Millions
Overview: Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Quai des blondes
1954-04-07
Quai des blondes
Overview: The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer seeks revenge. Two women emerge, a singer, Barbara, and his former mistress, who now works for Esposito. Ferrer sees death at close quarters, Barbara saves him. The police wipe out Lucky's gang. The future looks brighter for Ferrer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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La vuelta
1965-01-01
La vuelta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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