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.