“Good art helps us respond commensurately to the world as it really is, a fight for love and glory, a case of do or die.”
Summary
The beautiful 17-year-old actress Madeleine LeBeau fled Paris in June, 1940, just hours before the Germans marched in. Like thousands of other refugees, she and her husband made their way with forged visas and all the complications, uncertainties, and delays imaginable in wartime. Just two years later, still only nineteen, Madeleine LeBeau would play a memorable role in a pivotal scene in what would become one of the most well-loved movies ever made: Casablanca.
Resources
- Casablanca - La Marseillaise Scene
- The American Story Episode 59: As Time Goes By
- The American Story Episode 120: For Such a Time as This
- We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Film by Noah Isenberg
- The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II by Aljean Harmetz
Credits
- Narrator: Chris Flannery
- Audio Producer: Derek Wood
- Music Supervisor: Blake Huxell
