"Casablanca (film) Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play ""Everybody Comes to Rick's"". The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid; it also features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. Set during contemporary World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate who must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. Warner Bros. story"
"Dalio portrayed the Claude Rains character, Captain Renault, in the short-lived television series ""Casablanca"" (1955). Dalio had the role of a French sergeant in the war drama ""Jump into Hell"" (also 1955) about the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. Dalio appeared in the musical comedy ""Ten Thousand Bedrooms"" starring Dean Martin, with Paul Henreid in the supporting cast. He also appeared as a French priest in a war movie, again about the French involvement in Vietnam, called ""China Gate"" which features the acting of Nat King Cole. Finally that year, Dalio played Zizi in"
"then appeared among the star-studded cast in ""Tales of Manhattan"" (both 1942). In the uncredited role of Emil the croupier in ""Casablanca"" (also 1942), he appeared in the scene when Captain Renault closes down Rick's Cafe American using the pretext, ""I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"", Emil approaches him and hands him his usual bribe money saying, ""Your winnings sir."", while Rick darts Emile a flabbergasted look. His wife Madeleine Lebeau was also in the film, playing Yvonne, Rick's intermittent girlfriend. On 22 June, while Lebeau was filming her scenes with Hans Twardowski"
"to help David J. Skal write his book on Rains ""An Actor's Voice"". In 2011, the ivory military uniform (complete with medals) he wore as Captain Renault in ""Casablanca"" was put up for auction when noted actress and film historian Debbie Reynolds sold her collection of Hollywood costumes and memorabilia which she had amassed as a result of the 1970 MGM auction. In 1951, Rains won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for ""Darkness at Noon"" as well as the Delia Austrian medal for the same production. He was nominated for the Academy"
"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,"
"not to do in front of a camera."" On loan to Columbia Pictures, he portrayed a corrupt U.S. senator in ""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"" (1939) for which he received his first Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor. For his home studio, Warner Bros, he played the murderer, Dr. Alexander Tower, in ""Kings Row"" (1942) and the cynical police chief Captain Renault in ""Casablanca"" (also 1942). On loan again, Rains played the title character in Universal's remake of ""Phantom of the Opera"" (1943). In her 1987 memoir, ""This 'N That"", Bette Davis revealed that Rains (with whom she shared"
"in ""Casablanca""), Dan Seymour (Abdul in ""Casablanca"") plays Captain Renard, whose name and position parallel Captain Renault in ""Casablanca"". As in ""Casablanca"", Bogart's initially reluctant character assists husband-and-wife Resistance members. ""To Have and Have Not"" was adapted as an hour-long radio play for ""Lux Radio Theater"", with Bogart and Bacall reprising their screen roles. It was broadcast on October 14, 1946. Warner Brothers adapted the novel a second time with the film ""The Breaking Point"" (1950) directed by Michael Curtiz, who was also so credited for ""Casablanca"". This screenplay stayed closer to the novel; it bore little resemblance to the"
"""who endlessly wanders Berlin in hopes of properly capturing the city on paper"". He won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role. He played his last role in the 1989 short film ""Das letzte Band"", ending a film career of 82 years. Bois died in Berlin, the city of his birth, at the age of ninety. Curt Bois Curt Bois (April 5, 1901 – December 25, 1991) was a German actor with a career spanning over 80 years. He is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and the poet Homer in"
"Hollywood Boulevard and the other (for television) at 1720 Vine Street. ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" TV series episode ""Cell 227"" (1960) Paul Henreid Paul Henreid (10 January 1908 – 29 March 1992) was an Austrian-born American actor and film director. He is best remembered for two roles: Victor Laszlo in ""Casablanca"" and Jerry Durrance in ""Now, Voyager"", both released in 1942. Born Paul Georg Julius Hernried in the city of Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Italy), Henreid was the son of Maria-Luise (Lendecke) and Karl Alphons Hernried, a Viennese banker, born as Carl Hirsch, who converted in 1904"
"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"
"Nazis cannot arrest him, saying, ""This is still unoccupied France; any violation of neutrality would reflect on Captain Renault,"" Ebert points out, ""It makes no sense that he could walk around freely. ... He would be arrested on sight."" In addition, no uniformed German troops were stationed in Casablanca during World War II, and neither American nor French troops occupied Berlin in 1918. According to Harmetz, the usual route out of Germany, at least for people in the film industry, was not via Morocco and Lisbon but via Vienna, Prague, Paris and England. Only the film's technical adviser, Robert Aisner,"
"Curt Bois Curt Bois (April 5, 1901 – December 25, 1991) was a German actor with a career spanning over 80 years. He is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and the poet Homer in ""Wings of Desire"" (1987). Bois was born to a Jewish family in Berlin and began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors, with a role in the silent movie ""Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß"". In 1909, he played the title role in ""Der Kleine Detektiv"" ('The Little Detective'). Bois performed in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent films, and"
"Helmut Dantine Helmut Dantine (7 October 1918 – 2 May 1982) was an Austrian-born American actor who often played Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. His best-known performances are perhaps the German pilot in ""Mrs. Miniver"" and the desperate refugee in ""Casablanca"" who tries gambling to obtain visa money for himself and his wife. As his acting career waned, he turned to producing. According to one obituary, ""He specialized in portrayals of Nazis, sometimes as the handsome but icy SS sadist battling Allied heroes, sometimes as a sympathetic German soldier forced, against his better judgment, to fight."" Dantine's father,"
"""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"
"Jean Del Val Jean Del Val (17 November 1891 – 13 March 1975), born Jean Jacques Gauthier, was a French-born actor, also credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier. He played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with ""The Fortunes of Fifi"" in 1917. During the early days of talkies he served as a translator and vocal coach for French language versions of American-made films. The classic 1942 film ""Casablanca"" featured Jean in the limited role as an announcer for a French radio station. In 1966 he played a non-speaking role as the comatose scientist in the science fiction"
"Ulvaeus and Christer Fuglesang, wrote an article in ""Dagens Nyheter"" stressing the importance of secularity. The group also criticised the UN for its stance on blasphemy laws. Stellan Skarsgård Stellan John Skarsgård (; born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his roles as Jan Nyman in ""Breaking the Waves"" (1996), Captain Tupolev in ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990), Prof. Gerald Lambeau in ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997), Bootstrap Bill Turner in """" (2006) and """" (2007), Bill Anderson in ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008) and the sequel ""Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again"" (2018), Commander Maximilian Richter"
"Claude Rains William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was an English–American film and stage actor whose career spanned several decades. After his American film debut as Dr. Jack Griffin in ""The Invisible Man"" (1933) he appeared in classic films such as ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938), ""Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"" (1939), ""The Wolf Man"" (1941), ""Casablanca"" and ""Kings Row"" (both 1942), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"" (1957), and ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962). He was a Tony Award winning actor and was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Rains was"
"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"
"In 2013, Kyle co-founded the independent production company Minutehand Pictures along with Oliver Thompson and Bay Dariz. The trio is currently producing the feature film ""Welcome to Happiness"", in which Gallner portrays Woody Ward, a children's-book author with a secret door in his closet. Gallner and his wife have two sons. Kyle Gallner Kyle Steven Gallner (born October 22, 1986) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Cassidy ""Beaver"" Casablancas in the television series ""Veronica Mars"", superhero Bart Allen in the drama series ""Smallville"" and Reed Garrett in the police series """", and a lead role"
"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 by far his most prominent, but his other films included ""My Favorite"
"elements can be criticized, citing unrealistic special effects and the stiff character/portrayal of Laszlo. Critic Leonard Maltin considers ""Casablanca"" to be ""the best Hollywood movie of all time."" Rick, according to Rudy Behlmer, is ""not a hero ... not a bad guy"": he does what is necessary to get along with the authorities and ""sticks his neck out for nobody"". The other characters, in Behlmer's words, are ""not cut and dried"" and come into their goodness over the course of the film. Renault begins as a collaborator with the Nazis who extorts sexual favors from refugees and has Ugarte killed."
"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"
"Louis Jourdan Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's ""The Paradine Case"" (1947), ""Letter from an Unknown Woman"" (1948), ""Gigi"" (1958), ""The Best of Everything"" (1959), ""The V.I.P.s"" (1963) and ""Octopussy"" (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production ""Count Dracula"". Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France, in 1921, one of three sons of Yvonne (née Jourdan) and Henry Gendre, a hotel owner. He was educated in France,"
"final scene, Renault recommends fleeing to that Free French-held city) was planned, but never produced. (A newspaper article at the time mentions that Bogart and Greenstreet ""will continue their characterizations from the first film, and it's likely that Geraldine Fitzgerald will have an important role"".). Since then, no studio has seriously considered filming a sequel or outright remake. François Truffaut refused an invitation to remake the film in 1974, citing its cult status among American students as his reason. Attempts to recapture the magic of ""Casablanca"" in other settings, such as ""Caboblanco"" (1980), ""a South American-set retooling of ""Casablanca"""", and"
"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"
"Jean Reno Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez (born 30 July 1948), known as Jean Reno (), is a French actor of Spanish descent. He has worked in French, English, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian productions, and appeared in films such as ""Crimson Rivers"", ""Godzilla"", ""The Da Vinci Code"", """", ""The Pink Panther"", ""Ronin"", ""Les visiteurs"", ""The Big Blue"", ""Hector and the Search for Happiness"" and """". Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco. His parents were Spanish, natives of Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia, and had moved to North Africa to find work and"
"up where the film leaves off, and also tells of Rick's mysterious past in America. The book met with little success. David Thomson provided an unofficial sequel in his 1985 novel ""Suspects"". There have been two short-lived television series based upon ""Casablanca"", both sharing the title. The first, which aired on ABC as part of the wheel series ""Warner Bros. Presents"" in hour-long episodes from 1955 to 1956, is a Cold War espionage program set contemporaneously with its production, and starred Charles McGraw as Rick and Marcel Dalio, who played Emil the croupier in the movie, as the police chief."
"Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea; as a tourist in the 1939 drama, ""Only Angels Have Wings"", starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, which is considered to be one of Howard Hawks' finest films; as a warrior in the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby comedy classic, ""Road to Morocco"" (1942); in the classic World War I drama, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, in which he played a sergeant; as a native officer in the classic World War II romance, ""Casablanca"", starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman; as an aide in the 1944 version of"
"Missing"". Allam is married to actress Rebecca Saire, with whom he has two sons, William and Thomas. Allam has read several audiobooks, including ""Solar"" by Ian McEwan. Roger Allam Roger William Allam (born 26 October 1953) is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film, television and radio. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical ""Les Misérables"", First Officer Douglas Richardson in the award-winning radio series ""Cabin Pressure"", and DI Fred Thursday in the TV series ""Endeavour"". He is also known for his roles as Illyrio Mopatis"
"film ""Fantastic Voyage"". Del Val died at age 83 from a heart attack in Pacific Palisades, California. He is interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Jean Del Val Jean Del Val (17 November 1891 – 13 March 1975), born Jean Jacques Gauthier, was a French-born actor, also credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier. He played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with ""The Fortunes of Fifi"" in 1917. During the early days of talkies he served as a translator and vocal coach for French language versions of American-made films. The classic 1942 film ""Casablanca"" featured Jean"
"Lewis Russell Lewis Lord Russell (born George Lewis Lord, September 10, 1889 – November 12, 1961) was an American actor of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s who starred in a number of vaudeville shows, Broadway dramas and Hollywood films, including the Academy Award winning ""The Lost Weekend"" (1945) and the Marx Brothers film, ""A Night in Casablanca"" (1946). Russell was born in Farmington, Illinois to British immigrants Samuel and Martha Jane (Wood) Lord, he was the only child of nine born in the United States and, curiously, the only one who developed an English accent. His father was an Illinois"
"Kyle Gallner Kyle Steven Gallner (born October 22, 1986) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Cassidy ""Beaver"" Casablancas in the television series ""Veronica Mars"", superhero Bart Allen in the drama series ""Smallville"" and Reed Garrett in the police series """", and a lead role as Hasil Farrell in the drama series ""Outsiders"". He is also known for his roles in the horror films ""The Haunting in Connecticut"", ""Jennifer's Body"", and the remake of ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"". Gallner was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to Larry and Mary Jane Gallner. He has three siblings:"
"""On Santa Fe Trail"" and ""This Is the Army"") sent condolences to the family. Wallis is interred in a crypt at the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. 1938 and 1943 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Awards Hal B. Wallis Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938), and ""True Grit"" (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and"