Exceptionally rare vintage inscribed fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch pale green album page, acquired in-person in the 1940s, just around the time she appeared in Casablanca (1942). In good condition for its age, with light trimming along the bottom edge. Note that the image of the star shown alongside the scan of the autograph here is not included with the signed piece.  Memorable in classic films like Hold Back the Dawn (1941), Gentleman Jim (1942), Angelique (1964), and 8 1/2 (1963), beautiful French actress and singer Madeleine LeBeau gained cinematic immortality in the role of Yvonne in Casablanca (1942), who leads Rick's patrons in a defiant round of France's national anthem ,"La Marseillaise", amid threats from Nazi invaders.  Her tears in the unforgettable sequence were very real: Not long before it was shot, LeBeau had fled Nazi-occupied France, as had many of the other weeping actors in the scene.  

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