Casablanca - Madeleine LeBeau - La Marseillaise - The last surviving credited cast member
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- Madeleine LeBeau dies at 92
By Pat Saperstein Published May 15, 2016 Variety
Madeleine LeBeau, who played Humphrey Bogart’s jilted mistress Yvonne, in “Casablanca,” died May 1 in Spain after breaking her thigh bone. She was 92 and was the last surviving credited cast member of the classic film. Her stepson Carlo Alberto Pinelli confirmed her death to Variety.
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.
I've probably watched this movie a hundred times, and even though I am not French, Madeleine LeBeau's heartbreaking display of genuine patriotism for her native France brings me to tears every time.
The most wonderful thing about this scene is the reality of it. This movie was made in 1942 and the war was still raging. Almost all the extras used in this scene are real French refugees who escaped to the US. Even though French Actress Madeleine LeBeau, who was forced to flee Europe to the US with her Jewish Husband, had a minor role, I can guarantee, those tears were real. Per interviews about this scene long after the movie it was said after the song finished and the people cheered there was not a dry eye on the set. Rest in Peace Madeleine...We won.
Amen ! We certainly !
this is so coincidental that,. this was actually again filmed during ww2 and when france was split and occupies by german and axis powers.. really suprising to be honest with the realism and a twist to it
And if damn if she saw France right now.. she would be crying rain right now.. We have liberated France
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Who's "we"?
Well, almost all extras are European refugees, not necessarily French
I'm 58 yrs old born in L.A...my parents came from Ecuador in 1962.. when I was born...my mom named me Richard..when I was 15 I asked her in Spanish how come she named me Richard..kinda unusual coming from Ecuador...she said it was from the main character in Casablanca her favorite movie..heres looking at you mom RIP
Casablanca is my favorite film. RIP Ms. LeBeau. Truly a fine performance.
It wasn't a performance, she really felt like that!
Truly one of the best movie scene ever filmed. Madeleine LeBeau wasn't the only one who fled the Nazis. Conrad Veidt left Nazi Germany in 1933 when they first came to power. He fled to England with his Jewish wife.
My favorite scene in my favorite film. LeBeau had several scenes and seemed to light up Rick’s place. Yes, a true member of the Resistance. There were some genuine tears in this.
She _looks_ like the personification of France - there's a character who is. (Not in this film I mean - in French culture. Can't remember the name of the character: I think it might be Madeleine.)
It still brings a tear to my eye, actually both, and I'm 57.
A great film that has stood the test of time.
Viva La France !
Vive la France*
I went to a screening of Casablanca about five years ago. A symphony orchestra was performing the film's score. It was a very enjoyable night.
"This never grows old."
My absolute favorite scene in an incredible movie. So good. Just so good.
Especially if you take a slightly longer clip like czcams.com/video/cOeFhSzoTuc/video.html ( _why_ do people turn comments off?), which is still only 3:05, to include before the "ask your wife line", and after the "your winnings, sir" one.
Beautiful and talented lady. Just watched her in Casablanca. Rest in peace.
Brings a tear to my eye every time I see this scene and I've seen it a good few times.
It just did to me.
Thank goodness I’m not the only one.
What a moving scene. It was real pride! Brought me to tears 😢! Viva La France 🇫🇷
I've watched this scene probably a 100 times. Makes me weep every time. VIVE LA FRANCE!
La*
Vive La France, indeed!
@@hamzahammami22 changed. Thanks for noticing.
@@knarf_on_a_bike np
@@hamzahammami22 I perceived no rudeness. 😀 Thanks again and have a great one!
This scene guaranteed to give goosebumps if you have a patriotic bone in your body. Open defiance to a common enemy.
Very, very few of you understand the absolutely tremendous feeling behind this scene.
Mom lived thru the war in Italy as a tween.
The effect the war had on my family in the old country cannot be described.
It's all about you, obviously. So sorry, "DbagSupreme".
@@mjp96 Apology not accepted. You are inferior.
What a wonderful scene! Your comments are very interesting -- I love the shot of Ms. LeBeau's character in tears. I tear up when I watch this.
I didn't know the back story. Makes this movie all the more amazing.
Just a beautiful scene with the arrogant, overbearing Germans, Lazlo's fervent courage, the silent plea for Rick's permission from the band leader and finally Bogie doing what only Bogie can- stealing an epic scene with just a furtive glance. Add some heroic music, real emotion of the crowd and as rousing a rendition of a song of freedom by folks actually involved in the fight and there you have as perfect a movie scene as Hollywood was ever capable of creating. Vive, La Bogie!
Ironically, Conrad Veidt the man who plays the arrogant nazi major Strasser was himself a defector. He left Nazi Germany with his wife (who was Jewish) in the mid 1930s. He starred in many excellent movies including the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Er, I think it would be _le_ Bogie 🙂
@@G6JPG Exactly right!
"La Marseillaise"[a] is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine").
The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthem in 1795. The song acquired its nickname after being sung in Paris by volunteers from Marseille marching to the capital. The song is the first example of the "European march" anthemic style. The anthem's evocative melody and lyrics have led to its widespread use as a song of revolution and its incorporation into many pieces of classical and popular music.
Indeed, it is a stirring piece long associated with resistance to tyranny through out the years since it first appeared. Not so inspiring if you know what the lyrics are though, which most speakers of English don't! one of the verses concerns cutting the throats and bathing yourself in the blood of you enemies.
It did not continue after the execution of Robespierre, The anthem virtually disappeared under Napoleon, to be replaced by Le Chant du Depart while a version of Vive Henri Quatre served under the restored Monarchy. The current version is an imaginative recreation adopted in 1879.
@@imapaine-diaz4451 Actually the throat-cutting is what the enemy soldiers are accused of - "de nos fils et nos compagnons" (sons/children and friends). And "until the impure blood fertilises our furrows". Certainly bloodthirsty though!
Ironic that it was originally called "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine"), since the song it eventually drowns out - that the Nazis were singing - was "Wacht am Rhein", the watch (guard, sentry) on the Rhine.
She died in Spain in 2016 after a long and successful career in Italy, Spain, and her native France, where she returned after the war. She was married to French Jewish actor Marcel Dalio when she fled to America, but they were divorced in 1942. He charged her with desertion. He played Emil, the croupier, in the same film.
Indeed one of the best scenes among many, but unless you understand the words of La Marseillaise you can't realize the intensity of this scene. The refrain of the song actually talks about watering fields with the blood of their enemy, and these people are literally staring the Nazis down as they sing that.
Let's go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised!
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our companions!
To your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!
One minor tweak: I'd say "motherland". (And strictly, I think "sillons" are furrows, though most English versions do indeed say fields.) Oh, and I'd say "until" rather than "May".
She always brings me to tears too. That's one of my favourite movie scenes EVER! Impressed me most the first time I watched it as a youth. So beautiful ... so desperate ...
(And the grand music by Max Steiner too, the Austrian emigré composer, who actually invented symphonic cinema music.)
RIP Madeleine ... you are greatly underrated!
wow....did not know.....thankyou for posting this.....amazing movie....
The French can be hard to take sometimes but God bless em when in this dark time of their history they found themselves bloodied but unbowed.
One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history.
She was 19 at the time. Starring in a Hollywood film - although her role apparently got cut down with each modification on what was an amazingly chaotically produced film (hence/despite the sheer marvellousness of it). 3 years earlier she had got married, at 16, and then a year later had to escape the Nazis, via Lisbon, just as in the film. But even when she got to the Americas she found her visa was fake (probably bought it off Ugati). And in 1942 we can say with absolute certainty that no-one, despite knowing the sheer economic might of the USA, knew what the outcome of that terrible war would be. Vive la France! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Vive Madeleine! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Still get chills watching this scene. Vive Le France, Happy Bastille Day
Did you know that when the Bastille _was_ stormed, there were only about half a dozen prisoners there - and they were something like two lunatics, one sex offender, and only two that could be considered political prisoners, i. e. the nominal justification for storming it in the first place?
@@G6JPG Cool story bro
Every time I hear the Marseillaise I wanna start a revolution.
See Mimi's version czcams.com/video/7MQ-SC9bmp4/video.html
and you will continue to feel that way!
@@G6JPG Incredible performance! 🔥
Just looking for my pitchfork and off I go. 😄
@@AnSe902 Glad you like it! Look out some of her other work - start with La Derniere Valse. For someone only 5'1". she's a powerhouse. (And in her youth very beautiful too - a perfect miniature.)
Her death was reported on May 15th.... she actually passed on May 1st.
If as many say, Casablanca is the most iconic film of the 20th century, and if that scene, as I believe, is the most iconic in the film, and if Mlle. LeBeau's "Vive la France!" at the end is the climax of that scene, does that make her performance the high point of 20th century cinema? Personally, I wouldn't say no.
It's a perfect scene in a near perfect film.
*Ukraine has their own 'Victor Laszlo' only he's NOT RUNNING!*
And like a message from the past this showed up. Love and tolerance can win.
What a wonderful scene..
Memory eternal.
Rest in Peace beautiful lady
Other than the Casino scene, it is the best scene in the movie and maybe all of cinema!
casablanca is the secratariat of the film industry, first by a 1/16 of a mile
Never forget one thing , the german comedians who played , most often german soldiers , outside Germany during WW2 were all anti nazis who had to flee their country . Brave men who deserve our respect .
Of all the national anthems I've heard, I think this is the most stirring. Maybe more than my own.
Maybe due to the fact this anthem as an heavy past and background...
maybe. just maybe even better than yours!! cripes
Wonderful , viva the whole world X
And some complain about Nazis.
'La Marseillaise' Lyrics in French and English
www.thoughtco.com/la-marseillaise-frances-national-anthem-4080565
Verse 1:
Let's go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!
Refrain:
Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!
Verse 2:
This horde of slaves, traitors, plotting kings,
What do they want?
For whom these vile shackles,
These long-prepared irons? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult!
What emotions that must excite!
It is us that they dare to consider
Returning to ancient slavery!
Verse 3:
What! These foreign troops
Would make laws in our home!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would bring down our proud warriors! (repeat)
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brows would bend beneath the yoke!
Vile despots would become
The masters of our fate!
Verse 4:
Tremble, tyrants! and you, traitors,
The disgrace of all groups,
Tremble! Your parricidal plans
Will finally pay the price! (repeat)
Everyone is a soldier to fight you,
If they fall, our young heros,
France will make more,
Ready to battle you!
Verse 5:
Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare these sad victims,
Regretfully arming against us. (repeat)
But not these bloodthirsty despots,
But not these accomplices of Bouillé,
All of these animals who, without pity,
Tear their mother's breast to pieces!
Verse 6:
Sacred love of France,
Lead, support our avenging arms!
Liberty, beloved Liberty,
Fight with your defenders! (repeat)
Under our flags, let victory
Hasten to your manly tones!
May your dying enemies
See your triumph and our glory!
Verse 7:
We will enter the pit
When our elders are no longer there;
There, we will find their dust
And the traces of their virtues. (repeat)
Much less eager to outlive them
Than to share their casket,
We will have the sublime pride
Of avenging them or following them!
Those were real tears Madeleine was crying, she didn't have to do any acting in that scene.
oh, Yvonne
Was her shout out in the script or did she get carried away and expressed her true feeling? It does not matter. It had to from the heart. I heard it sung by Mireille Mathieu. with more backup in singers and instruments. It was done with feeling, but lacked the passion we heard here.
Hearing that song almost makes me wish I were French.
Best scene of the movie.
Yes. But this movie is just full of best scenes.
Vive la france.fabulous.
czcams.com/video/9l_3AM_fncs/video.html
··· Caught your comment to the above vid, Yvonne Bee.
Good catch on 'Vive', which is properly pronounced 'veev'.
This channel's host [oldskool54] mistakenly writ "Viva",
which is perhaps how that CZcamsr heard it.
··· I enjoy watching this scene, especially hearing
La Marseillaise, the world's most profoundly stirring
national anthem. For more, check out this video:
czcams.com/video/SIxOl1EraXA/video.html
··· On the 200th anniversary [1989] of the French
Revolution, Mireille Mathieu performs La Marseillaise
with the Eiffel Tower as a backdrop. The video lacks in
quality but is still enjoyable. Love the way the lady trills
her ars, something that English speakers cannot do.
··· BritLand-born [Bury], Canada-raised [Toronto], except
for the initial 15 months, I now live Hungary. I would like
to attend the upcoming Paris Olympics [2024] where I
can hopefully practice my four years of highschool French.
BUDAPEST
2020 OCTOBER 16
11½ PM
No, it was the best scene of the best scenes!
A scene to rouse the hero in us!
I’ve always envied the French their stirring anthem. In comparison, ours is a dirge I’m sorry to say.
I can't stop laughing at the one Nazi who ends up singing a little bit of "La Marseillaise"!
Once again that's an system for an 1000 at 1500
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Классно спасибо большое
tego uczyli..❤😊
😪😔😢
Rick..♥️♥️♥️♥️.....zawsza w ukryciu...😊
Is the actress at the very beginnig of czcams.com/video/QYgVDXUIAuo/video.html Madeleine LeBeau? It certainly looks like her to me.
Viva la France
Morocco Algeria and Tunisia are all free from French rule
cały Ŕick..😊
France porte des valeurs universelles progressistes depuis des temps immémoriaux. Je crois que nos derniers présidents l'ont oublié
Can anyone name all the Americans in the film?
Hint: There are only 3
Bogart, Rick
Dooley Wilson, Sam
Joy Page, Annina Brandel
Several of the actors like Claude Rains were naturalized US citizens, but those three were the only by birth citizens.
The ear against facism
Vive la République, Vive la France! Vive notre merveilleux pays!
It would have totally changed the movie had the head Nazi shouted out: "We own you! We still own you!"
As much as we all love it, surely this is also one of the worst examples of over-acting...on Mr. Bogart's part? He looksl like he is in a high school band. 😄
The chick on the guitar isn't far behind. 😃
Do you think any Moroccan wanted to sing these foreign anthems? We see the disgust of colonialism. Additionally, even Africa had to fight Nazis.
It's a mixed bag. Is your family from there or are you just an armchair historian?
@@mediterraneanworld lol, can see that history from any armchair. Come to Morocco and ask around. See how many people think it's a mixed bag. Is your family white supremacists or are you just coming from a typical western history class?
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أنا لبنانية إيطالية - عائلة تعيش في مصر ولبنان وفرنسا وإيطاليا.
@@kremove being from a country that has quite a history of foreign domination my statement is very true- We have a mixed identity and perception of who we are as our colonial past is part of our identity whether we like it or not. You still did not say if you are from Morrocco - you write however very much like an American.
REFRAIN
Aux armes, citoyens !
Formez vos bataillons !
Marchons, marchons !
Qu'un sang impur...
Abreuve nos sillons !
COUPLETS
I
Allons ! Enfants de la Patrie !
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L'étendard sanglant est levé ! (Bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes
REFRAIN
II
Que veut cette horde d'esclaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés ?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves,
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés ? (Bis)
Français ! Pour nous, ah ! Quel outrage !
Quels transports il doit exciter ;
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer
De rendre à l'antique esclavage !
REFRAIN
III
Quoi ! Des cohortes étrangères
Feraient la loi dans nos foyers !
Quoi ! Des phalanges mercenaires
Terrasseraient nos fiers guerriers ! (Bis)
Dieu ! Nos mains seraient enchaînées !
Nos fronts sous le joug se ploieraient !
De vils despotes deviendraient
Les maîtres de nos destinées !
REFRAIN
IV
Tremblez, tyrans et vous, perfides,
L'opprobre de tous les partis !
Tremblez ! Vos projets parricides
Vont enfin recevoir leur prix. (Bis)
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre.
S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros,
La terre en produit de nouveaux
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre.
REFRAIN
V
Français, en guerriers magnanimes
Portons ou retenons nos coups !
Épargnons ces tristes victimes,
A regret, s'armant contre nous ! (Bis)
Mais ce despote sanguinaire !
Mais ces complices de Bouillé !
Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié,
Déchirent le sein de leur mère !
REFRAIN
VI
Amour sacré de la Patrie
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs !
Liberté ! Liberté chérie,
Combats avec tes défenseurs ! (Bis)
Sous nos drapeaux que la Victoire
Accoure à tes mâles accents !
Que tes ennemis expirants
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire !
REFRAIN
***
COUPLET DES ENFANTS
Nous entrerons dans la carrière,
Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus ;
Nous y trouverons leur poussière
Et la trace de leurs vertus. (Bis)
Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre
Que de partager leur cercueil
Nous aurons le sublime orgueil
De les venger ou de les suivre.
REFRAIN
The Germans are like, how can they be upset that we invaded their country an inslaved them? They just didn't get it!