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...could have served as a travel poster for this international spirit. The director, Michael Curtiz, was from Budapest; the art director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union and Sweden. For Hollywood, it was the blossoming of a beautiful friendship...
While most fans are content to watch Captain Louis Renault and Rick Blaine (Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca) walk off into the fog together, Thomson asks more. Where did the cynical French policeman and the hard-boiled American come from? What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...
...headed west. The seven-day, four-stop voyage to Manila by the Pan American World Airways craft marked the first commercial flight across the Pacific and opened a romantic new chapter in aviation history. Romance went to the movies in the 1936 film China Clipper, starring Humphrey Bogart...
...didn't think anything was tasteless as long as it was funny." But tasteless is not really in the vocabulary of a gross-out scriptwriter. Some movie people shiver when they think of great film scenes: Gloria Swanson descending the stairs at the end of Sunset Boulevard, or Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains walking into the fog at the conclusion of Casablanca. Gross-out writers receive a similar thrill when they remember John Belushi filling his mouth with mashed potatoes in Animal House--and then popping his cheeks and spewing out the contents...
...guarantor of happiness or security. Schickel reels off the familiar tragedies of those who found there was no room at the top: John Belushi, Freddie Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like proper legends, have regained their power in death. Humphrey Bogart is a greater celebrity now than when he was alive; so is John Lennon. The fade-out has become as important in life as onscreen; no wonder Hollywood repartee has become standardized: "Elvis Presley is dead." "Good career move...