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Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of ...
Ingrid Bergman at age 14 Ingrid Bergman in The Count of Monk's Bridge (1934) Lobby poster, Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Lobby poster for Casablanca, (1942) Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (1944) Cary Grant, Bergman, and Alfred Hitchcock filming Notorious (1946) Bergman on the cover of Swedish magazine Filmjournalen (1947) Ingrid Bergman in Arch of Triumph (1948)
Ingrid Bergman was born on 29 August 1915 in Stockholm, to a Swedish father, Justus Samuel Bergman, [7] and a German mother, Frieda "Friedel" Henriette Auguste Louise Bergman (née Adler), who was born in Kiel.
The first role for which she received major awards recognition was 1943's For Whom the Bell Tolls, an American war film which was released in the same year as Casablanca, and for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, but failed to win, losing to Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette. [4]
Bogart's first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor was for Casablanca (1942), [139] a film that he and co-stars Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid initially believed was of little significance. [note 2] [139] Bogart won the award on his second nomination, for his 1951 performance in the United Artists production The African Queen.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942) Another patriotic Curtiz film was This Is the Army (1943), a musical adapted from the stage play with a score by Irving Berlin . [ 62 ] As America was engaged in World War II, the film boosted the morale of soldiers and the public.
Paul Henreid (January 10, 1908 – March 29, 1992) [1] was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best remembered for several film roles during the Second World War, including Capt. Karl Marsen in Night Train to Munich (1940), Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942) and Jerry Durrance in Now, Voyager (1942).
Michael Curtiz was born Mano Kaminer in Budapest in 1886. In 1906, he graduated from Hungary's Royal Academy of Theatre and Art. [4] Under the stage name of Mihály Kertész, he established himself as a stage actor, performing in classical and modern theatrical dramas.