Posted on 05/15/2016 10:50:12 AM PDT by DFG
The last surviving actress from the iconic movie Casablanca has died. Madeleine Lebeau played Yvonne, the jilted lover of Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film. Lebeau's stepson told The Hollywood Reporter that she had died aged on May 1 in Estepona, Spain aged 92, after breaking her thigh bone. The French-born actress was preceded in death by all of her credited Casablanca co-stars, including leads Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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Yvonne (played by Madeleine Lebeau) was in Rick’s before Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) showed up. She approaches Rick and they have the following conversation:
Yvonne: Where were you last night?
Rick: That was so long ago I don’t remember.
Yvonne: Will I see you tonight?
Rick: I don’t plan that far ahead.
She turns and orders a drink from Sasha, but Rick tells her she’s had enough to drink and has Sasha take her home.
Renault sees the exchange and comments that Rick is careless in tossing away women and they he (Renault) may go pay her a visit.
Through that scene, we can infer that Rick and Yvonne had recently been lovers and that Rick, for whatever reason, had broken it off.
What a dreary list.
Still gets chills when I watch that scene, and Sweet Jesus was Ingrid beautiful.
This film is my personal all-time favorite in my "riveting" and/or "romantic", "adventurous", "great story lines" and "well-done productions" genre picks...followed by "GWTW" (1939), the original "Robin Hood" (1938), "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939) and "Northwest Passage" (1940)
I'll never forget the emotional Marseilles scene in Casablanca...it's etched in my memory.
Leni
Most of them are awful, aren’t they? Imagine a future when Forrest Gump is considered a great movie.
When my husband taught film at the New York Film Academy in NYC, the kids didn’t like Casablanca. Most didn’t know anything about WWII and thought Bergman was a bad actress. I won’t even tell you what they thought of the Marx Brothers.
What can you do with people like that?
Drums Along the Mohawk is one of my favorite films. And I love Northwest Passage. Neither of these are very well known today among the general public - and probably too un-pc to share with the kiddies. After all, Claudette Colbert is afraid of peace loving, laid-back, dope-smoking, bead-stringing Mohawks!
One of the greatest movies ever made.
Half of the movies in this list are dreck. Most Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney movies are better than the garbage being made today.
They don’t make em like that anymore.
RIP
I still remember the startling scene of the Mohawk brave suddenly popping up in the church pulpit...and Dame Edna May Oliver being carried outside her flaming house by the rampaging Indians as she defiantly lies in the family bedstead she refuses to abandon. Unforgettable scenes!...."Drums Along the Mohawk" (Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert)...great stuff!
"Northwest Passage" (Spencer Tracy, Robert Young) is an historic, brilliant movie that portrays the courage, bravery and determination of our early American explorers and their determined foot soldiers.
Americana at its finest.
Leni
That Yvonne had dabbled elsewhere during their liason. Otherwise, why would Rick have given her up? It’s more in what she did than in being beautiful, and I refuse to believe that the latter was the reason.
Colbert's hysterics when Fonda's Indian friend just appears in her house about one day after she's travelled a long distance on her honeymoon is as shocking today as it must have been when first shown. Of course, it turns comical when the brave suggests a good beating will do her a world of good as she appears to be a good wife.
BTW, I always enjoyed the camaraderie between Edna Mae and Ward Bond in this movie. Bond is quite hunky in this!
aah yes...... I remember now
So, she’s all of 18 yrs old in that pic? They knew how to dress back then.
It’s implied that Rick didn’t stick with one woman for very long after he left France. Ilsa was his one true love, and when she sent him the letter as he was on the train out of Paris, he probably hardened his heart against any woman again.
I didn’t see a single John Wayne movie on their top 250 list. I think that Who Shot Liberty Valance should have made the cut at least. Treasure of Sierra Madre also a dud. Hmmm.
So her real life was very much like the movie. Awesome piece of trivia. RIP.
Speaking of Ford films, one that I’ve always found to be extremely satisfying, yet rarely mentioned, is “The Hurricane” (1937), with Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, and Raymond Massey. Perhaps the pre-WW2 romanticism would be too freakishly foreign to cynical modern audiences of the internet age, though. But I love the darned film. Just as I love “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” and all those many other films that exude the wistful daydreams and longings of an America not yet fully nor mentally drawn into the ugly carnage of the 20th-Century.
No “special” effects
I always considered Scarlett to be the ultimate survivor, whereas she and Rhett were very close in character and values. I once saw GWTW on the big screen in the 70’s. There must have been more than a few husbands/boyfriends that were dragged into seeing a Saturday night showing. Towards the end when Rhett says to Scarlett, “I don’t give a damn” and walks out on her, there was huge spontaneous applause and whistles from most of the men in the audience. It was funny moment and GWTW is one of my all-time favorite movies.
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