- Mother of Patrick Wachsberger.
- She studied dance and painting and found occasional work as a film extra.
- Following her marriage to producer Nat Wachsberger, she appeared in several swashbuckler and sword-and-sandal films in Italy, playing grandes dames and goddesses rather than the ingénues of yore.
- Yvette Lebon was the dean of French actresses and actors, ahead of Renée Simonot (1911-2021). She died in Cannes (France), but her funeral took place in Hollywood ( California ) where her son works and lives.
- During World War II, she was the mistress of Jean Luchaire, a French journalist and press baron executed after the war for collaboration with France's German occupiers.
- One of Yvette Lebon's last public outings was for the inauguration of the Allée Jean-Sablon in Cannes in April 2010.
- Her son Patrick is a film producer with Summit Entertainment and in 2005 co-produced Mr. & Mrs. Smith, with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
- Lebon turned 103 in August 2013, and was France's oldest surviving actress until her death.
- Her first husband was Roger Duchesne, a French actor who was sanctioned after the war for collaborating with the German occupiers. They acted together in the film Gibraltar (1938).
- She also had a relationship with Sacha Guitry, a prominent French dramatist-actor-director-playwright. He was charged with colluding with the German enemy but separate courts in 1945 and 1947 dropped his case, stirring controversy among the French public.
- Known as the doyenne of French actresses until her death a fortnight short of her 104th birthday, Yvette Lebon enjoyed a cinema career spanning 40 years, and as many pictures.
- Her relationship with collaborator-press baron Luchaire "attracted the most opprobrium." Indeed, in a 2010 television documentary, according to one account, she admitted "I don't know how much theatre and film people knew about what was really going on. We felt privileged. There was always champagne. We didn't have ration books. We lacked for nothing.".
- Lebon studied music and art before going into acting.
- She married American producer Nat Wachsberger and later moved to the United States with him. She lived there until his death in 1992.
- After having given the reply in 1941 to Charles Trenet in the Romance de Paris , she met Sacha Guitry in 1943 , of whom she became the mistress. Guitry offered her a role in Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (The Fabulous Destiny of Désirée Clary) 1942.
- She had a string of film successes including 1934's "Zouzou" which starred Josephine Baker, "The Marriage of Miss Levy" and "Marinella" with Tino Rossi (1936), and the 1937 "Breach of Trust", and was recognized as one of her country's promising young starlets.
- During World War II carried on an affair with journalist and Nazi collaborator Jean Luchaire. With the end of the conflict, both Luchaire and his daughter faced judgment day, though Yvette seems to have escaped the scandal.
- A noted beauty of her day, she is remembered for her numerous French cinematic appearances during the 1930s and beyond as well as for her rather colorful private life.
- With her husband's 1992 death she returned to the South of France where she was seen in a few retrospectives and lived out her days.
- Yvette earned her final credit with 1972's "I. You. They." and during most of her marriage to producer Nat Wachsberger resided in Beverly Hills.
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