The words ‘Play it again, Sam’ – later made famous by Woody Allen – are not actually uttered in the film, although something very similar was: ‘Play it, Sam. The lines they wrote have become iconic in movie history, from ‘Here’s looking at you, kid’ to ‘Round up the usual suspects’. He retitled the project Casablanca and brought in twins Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch to write the screenplay. Hal Wallis, a producer at Warner Brothers, bought the rights for $20,000 (roughly $300,000 today): a huge sum. The movie is based on an unproduced play, Everybody Comes to Rick’s. But in Casablanca the 27-year-old Bergman was at her alluring best. She featured in the Italian films of Roberto Rossellini and starred in film and TV series up to the 1980s. She appeared in such dramas as For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and Joan of Arc (1948) she starred in three Alfred Hitchcock films, Spellbound with Gregory Peck (1945), Notorious with Cary Grant (1946), and Under Capricorn with Joseph Cotten (1949). She went on to win three Oscars: for Gaslight (1944), Anastasia (1956), and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). At the time of making Casablanca, she was still almost unknown in Hollywood – it was her breakout performance. Casablanca saw the whisky-swilling, smart-talking Bogart play his first romantic lead and, although he occasionally looks uncomfortable as the lover, he was up against the beautiful Ingrid Bergman, who was entirely convincing throughout.īergman was a Swede who starred in a variety of American and European movies. In the first he played a gangster, in the second a private detective. Humphrey Bogart was a well- established Hollywood star who had shot to fame with his dry and sardonic performances in film noir dramas such as 1941’s High Sierra (directed by Raoul Walsh) and, in the same year, The Maltese Falcon (written and directed by his drinking partner John Huston). Of course, Casablanca is on one level one of the greatest love stories ever presented on film.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |