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Even when he is reminiscing with Ingrid to the tune of "As Time Goes By" about the day she left him in Paris, Bogart manages to spit out such stinging lines as: "And there was a guy standing on the station platform in the rain with a funny look on his face 'cause his insides had just been kicked out.... Was it Laszlo you left me for, or were there others in between, or aren't you the kind that tells...
Only 19 when "To Have and Have Not" was filmed, it was Lauren Bacall's first movie role. Her performance must be among the most impressive, if not the most skillful, debuts in Hollywood history. Bogart (45 at the time) was impressed. He married her six months after the film was released...
...Casablanca" (1942), of course, is the sentimental favorite of Bogart fans everywhere. Originally intended as just another propagandistic war-time melodrama, its appearance in theaters across the country coincided fortuitously with the allied invasion of North Africa, and with such unprecedented quantities of free publicity, the film soon acquired a large and devoted following. It's not hard...
Hero Rick Blaine (Bogart) is an aloof Casablanca cafe proprietor, an idealization of the self-willed outcast, who is sometimes pressed into exerting an ordering influence on his hopelessly muddled environment. A former freedom fighter in Spain and Ethiopia, for some reason unable to return to his native United States, Blaine has become wary of involvement--"I stick my neck out for nobody"--and is resigned to die in Casablanca - "It's a good place...
...detached viewpoint it's clear that "Casablanca" often wallows in second-rate humor and cheap sentimentality of the "Our Song" variety ("Play it again, Sam"). But, happily, it's easy to get in the mood for that sort of thing, and both Ingrid Bergman's charm and beauty, and Bogart's biting cynicism raise the film above the level of the ordinary gooey melodrama...