Casablanca Exceeded Expectations

The New Yorker said Casablanca was “pretty tolerable” No one expected it to do great things. It was surprising when it won Best Picture of 1942. Eighty-one years old, and it is now iconic. My husband has a six foot poster of it in his office. He watches it six to ten times a year. I remind him that Bogart had to stand on a couple of blocks. Ingrid Bergman was over two inches taller than he was. Paul Henreid aka Victor Laszlo called Bogart a mediocre actor. Bogart called Paul a “prissy prima donna”. “Here’s looking at you kid” is attributed to Bogart. He said it to Bergman when he taught her poker in between takes.