"depths"" as a ""phenomenon worthy of awe."" ""Casablanca"" holds a 97% ""Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 77 reviews, with the consensus: ""An undisputed masterpiece and perhaps Hollywood's quintessential statement on love and romance, ""Casablanca"" has only improved with age, boasting career-defining performances from Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman."" In the November/December 1982 issue of ""American Film"", Chuck Ross claimed that he retyped the screenplay to ""Casablanca"", changing the title back to ""Everybody Comes to Rick's"" and the name of the piano player to Dooley Wilson, and submitted it to 217 agencies. Eighty-five of them read it; of those,"
"for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German"
"Joy Page Joy Page (November 9, 1924 – April 18, 2008) was an American actress best known for her role as the Bulgarian refugee Annina Brandel in ""Casablanca"" (1942). Born Joy Cerrette Paige, she was the daughter of Mexican-American silent film star Don Alvarado (born José Paige) and Ann Boyar (1908–1990), the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Her parents divorced when she was eight. In 1936, her mother married Jack L. Warner, then head of Warner Bros. studios. Warner, however, did not encourage his stepdaughter's interest in acting. Page, who initially thought the script to ""Casablanca"" was ""old fashioned"" and"
"opposite Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich, with director Raoul Walsh. Raft had earlier turned down the lead role in Walsh's ""High Sierra"", the film that effectively launched Bogart's career as leading man rather than chronic supporting player, and is believed by many to have passed up the role of ""Rick"", the cynical hero of ""Casablanca"". The 42-year-old Bogart was delighted to play a highly ambiguous character who is both honorable and greedy. Huston was particularly grateful that Bogart had quickly accepted the role, and the film helped to consolidate their lifelong friendship and set the stage for later collaboration"
"able to continue her promising movie career, receiving only bit roles in four movies, and it would be three years before she received any part in any movie. In 1942, Berliner received her first part in an American movie, ""Casablanca"". She portrayed a woman playing baccarat with a Dutch banker (played by Torben Meyer). In her one line in movie, she says to the waiter Carl (played S.Z. Sakall), ""Will you ask Rick if he will have a drink with us?"", to which Carl responds, ""Madame, he never drinks with customers. Never. I have never seen it."" Later that year,"
"about ""Casablanca"" that it has a life of its own. There is something mystical about it. It seems to have filled a need, a need that was there before the film, a need that the film filled"". After ""Casablanca"", with ""Selznick's steady boosting"", she played the part of Maria in ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), which was also her first color film. For the role, she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The film was taken from Ernest Hemingway's novel of the same title. When the book was sold to Paramount Pictures, Hemingway stated that, ""Miss"
"Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother and started her career as an actress in Swedish and German films in the 1930s. Her introduction to American audiences came with her"
"and Mary Astor as the treacherous female foil. Bogart's sharp timing and facial expressions were praised by the cast and director as vital to the quick action and rapid-fire dialogue. The film was a huge hit in theaters and a major triumph for Huston. Bogart was unusually happy with it, remarking, ""it is practically a masterpiece. I don't have many things I'm proud of ... but that's one"". Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's ""Casablanca"", playing Rick Blaine, a hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner hiding from a shady past while negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French"
"They featured Rick, an American bar owner of the ""Café Americain"" in Casablanca, Morocco, whose European inhabitants, military personnel and refugees often frequent the cafe. Eventually, Rick helps an idealistic Czech resistance fighter escape with the woman Rick loves. Soon after, Carly Wharton and Martin Gabel took an option to produce the play. But there was resistance since it might seem to some that Lois (Ilsa in the movie) ""had slept with Rick in Casablanca in order to get the letters of transit"". When Burnett and Alison failed to find a Broadway producer, they sold the play to Warner Brothers"
"for the 1942 Warner Bros. film ""Casablanca"" which was written specifically for Hedy Lamarr in the female lead role. However, MGM refused to release Hedy Lamarr despite all efforts by Warners. Charles Boyer's invitation to ""Come with me to ze Casbah,"" did not appear in the film, but still became the comedians standard imitation of Boyer, much like ""Play it again, Sam"" for Humphrey Bogart and ""Judy, Judy, Judy"" for Cary Grant – all apocryphal lines. Boyer hated being reduced in that way, believing that it demeaned him as an actor. In some part, the lampoon of Boyer spread owing"
"year before, in her final film role, she played Prairie Flower, a Sioux Indian and mother of White Bull, played by Sal Mineo, in ""Tonka"". Page and Orr divorced in 1970. Their son, Gregory Orr, is a writer and producer. Page died on April 18, 2008, of complications arising from a stroke and pneumonia. Joy Page Joy Page (November 9, 1924 – April 18, 2008) was an American actress best known for her role as the Bulgarian refugee Annina Brandel in ""Casablanca"" (1942). Born Joy Cerrette Paige, she was the daughter of Mexican-American silent film star Don Alvarado (born José"
"(1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which led to him having the role of Major Strasser in ""Casablanca"" (1942). Veidt was born in a bourgeois district of Berlin, Germany, the son of Amalie Marie (née Gohtz) and Phillip Heinrich Veidt. (Some biographies wrongly state that he was born in Potsdam, probably on the basis of an early claim on his part.) His family was Lutheran. In 1914, Veidt met actress Lucie Mannheim, with whom he began a relationship. Later in the year Veidt was conscripted into the German Army during World War I. In 1915, he was"
"the same name. ""Algiers"" was a sensation because it was the first Hollywood film starring Hedy Lamarr, whose beauty became the main attraction for film audiences. The film is notable as one of the sources of inspiration to the screenwriters of the 1942 Warner Bros. film ""Casablanca"" who wrote it with Hedy Lamarr in mind as the original female lead. Charles Boyer's depiction of the main character, Pepe Le Moko, inspired the Warner Bros. animated character, Pepé Le Pew. In 1966, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration"
"and her sister Bella and a maid were the victims of a home-invasion robbery at the Hunters' estate, ""Blue Haven"", in Southampton, Long Island. Lisette Verea died on her 89th birthday, in New York City. Lisette Verea Lisette Verea (August 27, 1914 - August 27, 2003) was a Romanian-born cabaret singer and actress, known for her appearance in the Marx Brothers film, ""A Night in Casablanca"" (1946). Lisette Verea was born in Bucharest, the daughter of Hainerik Chaim Veksler Verea and Olga Veksler Verea. Verea moved to the United States in 1940. In 1944, she appeared on Broadway in a"
"Casablanca Express Casablanca Express is a 1989 Italian action war film starring Jason Connery and Francisco Quinn that was filmed in Morocco. It was produced by Pietro Innocenzi and Umberto Innocenzi and directed by Sergio Martino. The film was later featured in an episode of ""Cinema Insomnia"". In 1942 Winston Churchill arrives in Algiers. He plans to travel on to Casablanca where he will meet Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin for the Casablanca Conference. His aides and army commanders strongly advise against travelling by train, but Churchill is adamant. Intelligence discovers that Churchill's presence is known to the Germans,"
"Karen David Karen Shenaz David (born 15 April 1979 or 1980) is an Indo-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter, who is best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in ABC's fairytale-themed musical-comedy television series, ""Galavant"", as well as Francesca ""Cesca"" Montoya in the BBC television series ""Waterloo Road"", and Layla in the American action film """". She starred as Angela in the ITV television series ""Cold Feet"" and plays Princess Jasmine (from ""Aladdin"") in the American television series ""Once Upon a Time"". David also starred in ""Pixelface"", a CBBC children's television series, where she plays Alexia, the"
"to any explicit reference to Rick and Ilsa having slept together in Paris and to the film mentioning that Captain Renault extorted sexual favors from his supplicants; however, both remained strongly implied in the finished version. Adherence to the Code also ruled out any possibility of the film ending with Rick and Ilsa consummating their adulterous love, making inevitable the ending with Rick's noble renunciation, one of ""Casablanca""s most famous scenes. The first major instance of censorship under the Production Code involved the 1934 film ""Tarzan and His Mate"", in which brief nude scenes involving a body double for actress"
"in Palos Verdes, California. Karen David Karen Shenaz David (born 15 April 1979 or 1980) is an Indo-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter, who is best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in ABC's fairytale-themed musical-comedy television series, ""Galavant"", as well as Francesca ""Cesca"" Montoya in the BBC television series ""Waterloo Road"", and Layla in the American action film """". She starred as Angela in the ITV television series ""Cold Feet"" and plays Princess Jasmine (from ""Aladdin"") in the American television series ""Once Upon a Time"". David also starred in ""Pixelface"", a CBBC children's television series, where"
"Mr. Hyde"", all 1941) in the United States, Bergman co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the classic film ""Casablanca"" (1942), which remains her best-known role. In this film, she played the role of Ilsa, the beautiful Norwegian wife of Victor Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid, an ""anti-Nazi underground hero"" who is in Casablanca, a haven from the Nazis. Bergman did not consider ""Casablanca"" to be one of her favorite performances. ""I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart."" In later years, she stated, ""I feel"
"four decades younger Tina York (born 1941) in 1985. They remained together until 1998, when, at the age of 95, Kinskey died of complications of a stroke in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Leonid Kinskey Leonid Kinskey (c. 1894or 18 April 1903 – 8 September 1998) was a Russian-born film and television actor who enjoyed a long career. Kinskey is best known for his role as Sascha in the film ""Casablanca"" (1942). Kinskey was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He started his career as a mime in various imperial theatres in Russia in the mid 1910s. In 1921, he fled Russia for"
"Shortly before the release of the film, Warner Bros. terminated her contract. After Joy Page died in April 2008, Lebeau was the last surviving credited cast member of ""Casablanca"". She told Charlotte Chandler, author of a biography of female lead Ingrid Bergman, in the 1990s: ""It wasn't that I was cut out, it was because they kept changing the script, and each time they changed it, I had less of a part"". ""It was not personal, but I was so disappointed"". Lebeau's best moments in ""Casablanca"" are during the scene when French nationals sing ""The Marseillaise"" drowning out the group"
"Corinna Mura Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; 16 March 1910 – 1 August 1965) was a cabaret singer and diseuse. She had a small role in the classic film ""Casablanca"" as the woman playing the guitar while singing ""Tango Delle Rose"" and ""La Marseillaise"" at Rick's Café Américain. As a child she was trained by her parents to become a coloratura soprano. She sang three times for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1944, Mura appeared in Cole Porter's hit Broadway musical ""Mexican Hayride"", and can be heard in two numbers on the Decca original-cast album. She was stepmother to author/illustrator"
"Lisette Verea Lisette Verea (August 27, 1914 - August 27, 2003) was a Romanian-born cabaret singer and actress, known for her appearance in the Marx Brothers film, ""A Night in Casablanca"" (1946). Lisette Verea was born in Bucharest, the daughter of Hainerik Chaim Veksler Verea and Olga Veksler Verea. Verea moved to the United States in 1940. In 1944, she appeared on Broadway in a pair of operettas on a double bill (""La Serva Patrona"" and ""The Secret of Suzanne""), and in a revival of ""The Merry Widow"". In 1946, publicity proclaimed her ""Hollywood's newest glamor girl."" Screen appearances by"
"including and following the revisions. Because of the contributions from both Hemingway and Faulkner, the film represents the only film story on which two winners of the Nobel Prize of Literature worked. Filming began on February 29, 1944 as Faulkner worked on the script, ending on May 10. The film released nationally on October 11, 1944. Audience reception of the film was generally good, with most film critics claiming the film was a remake of ""Casablanca"" (1942). These reviews were mixed, either praising or condemning the film in comparison to ""Casablanca"". Critics specifically mentioned Lauren Bacall's performance or the chemistry"
"was survived by his wife, Estelle (née Williams), who died in 1971. Dooley Wilson Arthur ""Dooley"" Wilson (April 3, 1886 – May 30, 1953) was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, ""Casablanca""; in the film, he also performed its theme song, ""As Time Goes By"". Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films. His role in ""Casablanca"" was"
"Frances O'Connor Frances Ann O'Connor (born 12 June 1967) is an English-born Australian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films ""Mansfield Park"" (1999), ""Bedazzled"" (2000), ""A.I. Artificial Intelligence"" (2001), ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" (2002), and ""Timeline"" (2003). O'Connor has won an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in ""Blessed"" (2009), and earned Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film nominations for her performances in ""Madame Bovary"" (2000) and ""The Missing"" (2014). O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist"
"""Casablanca"" went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Curtiz was selected as Best Director and the Epsteins and Koch were honored for writing the Best Adapted Screenplay—and gradually its reputation grew. Its lead characters, memorable lines, and pervasive theme song have all become iconic, and the film consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history. In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. ""Rick's Café Américain"" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and German officials, refugees desperate to reach the still-neutral United"
"control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910. It was especially during the years of military governor Hubert Lyautey that Casablanca became Morocco's economic center and Africa's biggest harbour. The famous 1942 film ""Casablanca"" underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers, carried out without any reference to the local population, and with the film's vast cosmoplitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Czech and some other nationalities) including not a single Arab. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A terrorist"
"not formalised until 1910. Under the French rule, Muslim anti-Jewish riots occurred in 1908. The famous 1942 film ""Casablanca"" (starring Humphrey Bogart) underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers. The film has a cosmopolitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Spaniard, Czech, Norwegian, Austrian, Bulgarian, Russian, and some other nationalities). Europeans formed almost half the population. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A bomb attack on 25 December 1953 (Christmas Day) caused 16 deaths. Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast)"
"1. Cate Blanchett – ""Blue Jasmine"" <br> 2. Brie Larson – ""Short Term 12"" <br> 3. Adèle Exarchopoulos – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" 1. James Franco – ""Spring Breakers"" <br> 2. Jared Leto – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" <br> 3. Barkhad Abdi – ""Captain Phillips"" 1. Jennifer Lawrence – ""American Hustle"" <br> 2. Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" <br> 3. Léa Seydoux – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Sally Hawkins – ""Blue Jasmine"" 1. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" <br> 2. Joel Coen and"
"""Casablanca"" in which he played Carl, the head waiter. The comic style of Ernie Kovacs influenced numerous television comedy programs for years to come. The Fox Film Corporation was formed by William Fox. Comedian, Actor and Producer Louis C.K (born Louis Székely) is a US-Mexican dual citizen. His grandfather, Géza Székely Schweiger, immigrated to Mexico with his family from Hungary. Actress Vilma Bánky starred in numerous silent films opposite Hollywood legends such as Rudolph Valentino and Ronald Colman. Actor Adrien Brody's mother was Hungarian. Actress Rachel Weisz's father was Hungarian inventor George Weisz. Actress Drew Barrymore's mother is Hungarian. Actor"
"particularly Cotillard's performances were praised, and grossed $120 million worldwide. It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. In 1942 during World War II, Wing Commander Max Vatan, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving on intelligence duties, travels to Casablanca in Morocco to assassinate a German ambassador. He is partnered with a French Resistance fighter named Marianne Beauséjour, who had escaped from France after her resistance group was compromised and killed. The two pose as a married couple and grow close, despite agreeing that in their line of work feelings can get people killed. Marianne, who"
"travelled to Casablanca by plane. Casablanca Express Casablanca Express is a 1989 Italian action war film starring Jason Connery and Francisco Quinn that was filmed in Morocco. It was produced by Pietro Innocenzi and Umberto Innocenzi and directed by Sergio Martino. The film was later featured in an episode of ""Cinema Insomnia"". In 1942 Winston Churchill arrives in Algiers. He plans to travel on to Casablanca where he will meet Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin for the Casablanca Conference. His aides and army commanders strongly advise against travelling by train, but Churchill is adamant. Intelligence discovers that Churchill's presence"