Casablanca behind the scenes gags

Casablanca

Because director Michael Curtis’s Hungarian accent is very heavy, he made a lot of unrelated jokes during the filming.
Ingrid Bergman thinks that her left profile is more perfect, so most of her shots in the film are shot on the left.
Some of the actors who played the Nazis in the film were Jews who had escaped from Germany.
Dolly Wilson, who plays Sam in the film, is a professional drummer, and the piano sound is dubbed.
The only actor in the film is Dolly Wilson who has been to Casablanca.
Joey Page, who plays the Bulgarian wife in the film, is the stepdaughter of Warner Bros. boss Jack L. Warner.
The story of the film is set to take place in Casablanca because Casablanca is an important transit point for refugees to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.
William Wheeler was the first candidate to be the director of the film.
After President Roosevelt went to Casablanca to attend a wartime meeting with Churchill, he asked for the film to be shown at the White House.
Paul Henrid, who plays Victor Laszlo, didn't want to play this role at first. As a first-line niche in Hollywood romance films, he was afraid that Victor's role would ruin his image.
The line "Here's looking at you, kid" in the movie was coined by Humphrey Baojia himself.
Although Humphrey Berga and Ingrid Bergman appear to be very tacit on the screen, in fact the two of them hardly speak to each other behind the scenes.
The screenwriters hoped that Rick and Ilsa could not come together at the end, but the film censorship department could not accept such an ending, so the screenwriters worked hard to rewrite the script many times, and finally convinced the audience. Although Rick and Ilsa each other Love each other, but they can only be forced to separate.
In fact, Ingrid Bergman is taller than Humphrey Bogart. In order to make the audience feel that the hero is taller, Bogart is standing on a box or sitting on a pillow in many scenes. Ingrid Berman can only wear flat shoes in the scene with his opponent.
The Epstein brothers completed the script three days before the filming started, which is rare in Hollywood's film production system.
In order to better cooperate with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman watched the movie "The Maltese Eagle" starring him many times.
Before the filming started, someone recommended the script of "Casablanca" to MGM, but the boss of MGM was unwilling to pay $5,000, and the boss of Warner Bros. paid $20,000 to purchase the script.