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Tag Archives: Casablanca
Casablanca Appreciation Day
From The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II: The sixty-six pages of script, labeled Part I TEMP., were mimeographed on April 2. The Epsteins had written the first third of the movie, the section preceding the flashback … Continue reading
Casablanca Appreciation Day
From The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II: However, there was no mistaking the fact that Casablanca, with its snappy dialogue, eccentric characters, witty cynicism, wary anti-hero and liberal political message was definitely a Warner movie. Casablanca … Continue reading
Casablanca Appreciation Day
From The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II: Bogart’s response to the success of Casablanca was more typically sardonic. He enjoyed telling his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, how Charles Enfield, the studio’s head of publicity, had had … Continue reading
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Tagged Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
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Casablanca Appreciation Day
From The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II: Warner Brothers was the most frugal of the studios, and little was wasted there in 1942. World War II gave the studio’s president, Harry Warner, an excuse to pick … Continue reading
The Victor Laszlo/Rick Blaine dilemma
Open thread: Talk about the ending of Casablanca. Talk about Ilsa’s choice. Or actually – Rick made the choice for her: You will go with Laszlo. Ilsa loves both men. Not in the same way, but she does love both … Continue reading
Top 5 lines Said By Humphrey Bogart
1. “I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings.” – The Big Sleep (another good one from The Big Sleep is: “She tried to … Continue reading
Bogart’s First Screen Kiss
Bogart, after doing film after film after film where he played a villain in the early 30s, where he always seemed to get shot by Edward G. Robinson, finally got a chance to show another side to his character in … Continue reading
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Tagged Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, John Huston, Mary Astor, The Maltese Falcon
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Humphrey Bogart Said:
“Of course, I did nothing in Casablanca that I hadn’t done in twenty movies before that, and suddenly they discover I’m sexy. Any time that Ingrid Bergman looks at a man, he has sex appeal.”
Ingrid Bergman: “I Look Like a Milkmaid.”
Ingrid Bergman desperately wanted to get out of making Casablanca. So did Humphrey Bogart. Nobody knew that Casablanca was going to end up spanning decades and lasting … At the time, it was just another movie, being churned out by … Continue reading
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Tagged Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Curtiz
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Claude Rains: You Want More Energy? I’ll Give You More Energy
Michael Curtiz, the director of Casablanca, was apparently a demanding terrifying man. He was talented, focused, and a son-of-a-bitch who hated actors and who, according to his stepson, “spoke five languages, and all of them badly.” Curtiz was shooting one … Continue reading
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Tagged Casablanca, Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart, Michael Curtiz
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