Trivia

She was the last surviving credited cast member of Casablanca (1942).

Madeleine's escaping from Nazi occupied France almost mirrored her role as Yvonne in Casablanca. During the scene where so many patrons of Rick's started singing La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, many of the actors in that scene were refugees from Europe and their tears were real, including Madeleine's.

Fleeing from the Germans in 1940, she and her husband eventually reached Lisbon, where they obtained visas to Chile, but on reaching Mexico they learned that these were forgeries. They eventually obtained temporary Canadian passports and ended up in the US.

She was only 19 when she made Casablanca and like most of her co stars in the film left her home during Hitlers reign of terror.

She made her debut in another film about refugees trying to get to America -Hold Back the Dawn.

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