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Then, last year, Warner Bros., seeking a love theme for Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, fished As Time Goes By out of the files. Instead of giving the tune to a conventional crooner, Warners picked Dooley Wilson. He is something special. He has one of the warmest personalities that ever got into show business. He sings with understatement and a sense of mood worthy of a great lieder singer. Dooley gave As Time Goes By everything he had. When Ingrid Bergman in the film says that no one can sing the song like Sam (Dooley), millions of moviegoers...
...setting of "Casablanca" is a peculiarly American Cafe Americain in Casablanca before it became a meeting place for conferring diplomats. The dramatis personae are Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, heading a cast that does an able job of supporting. With international characters and situations of every variety, the picture cannot fall to attain a fair degree of interest...
...thing in the AEF's sortie in North Africa, and turned out a hurry-up job in the hope that the name would bring on a box office rush. If that was the original idea, it hasn't panned out, thanks to the noteworthy efforts of Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart and a supporting cast that really supports...
Tough guy Bogart, who couldn't play this sort of role wrong if he tried, is right in character as a guy named Rick, except that something new has been added. Besides an ill-concealed strain of sentimentality, Bogart, the soldier of fortune, has acquired a social consciousness under his callous shell which, we are told, caused him to do his usual tommy-gunning with the Loyalists in Spain and which finally causes him to become the martyred lover. Miss Bergman, possessor of the kind of sensitive, intelligent charm that makes most of Hollywood's leading ladies look like female...
Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Claude Rains; TIME...