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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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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
Sidney Lumet: On Murder on the Orient Express
Movie stars vs. theatre stars. Excerpt from Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies: Sidney Lumet: A charming thing happened at the first reading of Murder on the Orient Express. Five stars of the English theatre were appearing in the West End at … Continue reading
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Tagged Ingrid Bergman, John Gielgud, Lauren Bacall, Richard Widmark, Sidney Lumet, Vanessa Redgrave
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Sidney Lumet: On Ingrid Bergman
Excerpt from Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies: Sidney Lumet: In Murder on the Orient Express, I wanted Ingrid Bergman to play the Russian Princess Dragomiroff. She wanted to play the retarded Swedish maid. I wanted Ingrid Bergman. I let her play … Continue reading
Top 5 Moments in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious
Top 5 moments in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious: 1. The kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman – it was the longest kiss in screen history at the time. Because of the morality production codes, no kiss could last longer than … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Leopoldine Konstantin, Notorious
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“I Was a Fat-Headed Guy Full of Pain.”
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Cary Grant in Notorious
In the famous last scene of Notorious, Ingrid Bergman lies in bed, trapped in the house of her Nazi husband, she is being slowly poisoned by Nazi-man (Claude Rains) and by his terrifying evil Fraulein mother (Leopoldine Konstantin). Bergman lies … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Leopoldine Konstantin, Notorious
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Cary Grant: “Superbly Unbalancing” in Notorious
Here is what Richard Schickel, the man I keep quoting, has to say about Grant’s acting in that masterpiece. It’s quite a good analysis, I think, of what Grant did with his own persona in the film.
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
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