Posted on 01/31/2019 7:03:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Bogie on the witness stand is seared into my visual memory.
That is one of those things that only works well in black and white.
The absolute pinnacle of an acting performance, by anyone, in any era.
Succinctly captured in a single scene:
Wasn’t Bogie pretty much dying when they shot that movie? He looked so gaunt.
No, he died 15 years later in 1957.
1954
Bogart dropped his asking price to get the role of Captain Queeg in Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 drama The Caine Mutiny. Though he griped with some of his old bitterness about having to do so,[126] he delivered a strong performance in the lead, earning him his final Oscar nomination as well as being the subject of the cover story in the June 7, 1954 issue of TIME. Yet for all his success, Bogart was still his melancholy old self, grumbling and feuding with the studio, while his health was beginning to deteriorate.
That moment at 1:14 when he realized that he just sunk himself.
Nobody could pull that off like he did.
“Nobody could pull that off like he did.”
Nobody else could come close.
By mid 1942, we knew the Japanese were done. Their expansion was over.
By 1943, The British were already talking about a post-war strategy after Germany fell.
It was just a matter of time.
Thanks for the ping, and I certainly agree with you. The most shocking trivia from the article is that the only reason we ever got to hear the iconic theme song is because Bergman had cut her hair. Incredible.
#6 The Japanese win at the end. : )
It's not on my bucket list, but if an opportunity to see it presents itself, I won't pass it up.
Bogie was such a small man (5’4”), to prevent him looking like a midget whenever he stood next to Ingrid, he stood on a box. If they were walking, they dug a trench for her to walk in.
They also cut the club’s piano down so he wouldn’t look so short when standing next to it. The prop piano’s keyboard only had 66 keys compared to a normal piano’s 88.
And Dooley Wilson (who played ‘Sam’) was a professional drummer and couldn’t play the piano. The prop piano was sold in 1988 to a Japanese collector for $154,000.
Warner Brothers threatened to sue Groucho Marx over the title of his 1946 release, A Night In Casa Blanca. To which Groucho replied, “You claim you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name without your permission. But what about “Brothers”? Professionally, we were brothers long before you were.”
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