Ingrid Bergman desperately wanted to get out of making Casablanca<\/i>. So did Humphrey Bogart. Nobody knew that Casablanca<\/i> was going to end up spanning decades and lasting … At the time, it was just another movie, being churned out by the studio. No big deal, nothing special.<\/p>\n
Bergman was convinced she was miscast.<\/p>\n
She and Bogart had lunch together before they started shooting – and Geraldine Fitzgerald (a wonderful actress, also under contract at Warner Brothers) sat with them.<\/p>\n
Fitzgerald describes Bogart’s concern and anxiety about the lack of an ending in the script.<\/p>\n
And Bergman kept saying, “I am miscast. Why doesn’t anyone care that I am so miscast? The script says: ‘We have never had a woman so beautiful come to Casablanca<\/i>‘ But I look like a milkmaid<\/i>. No one will ever believe it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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