Casablanca loses its last living star Madeleine Lebeau

London:  Madeleine Lebeau, the last surviving cast member of the classic 1942 film Casablanca, has died at the age of 92, her family says.

Her stepson, filmmaker Carlo Alberto Pinelli, told the Hollywood Reporter that she had died on May 1 in Spain. In Casablanca, Lebeau plays Humphrey Bogart’s spurned lover.

In a famous scene, she tearfully shouts, “Vive La France”, after the clientele in Rick’s Café sing La Marseillaise to drown out singing by Nazi soldiers.
Born in 1923 near Paris, she fled Nazi-occupied France with her then husband, prominent actor Marcel Dalio, in 1940.

The couple ended up in Hollywood, and both starred in the Casablanca.
Lebeau then went on to star in two more American films before returning to France after the war.