Did Anyone Say Play It Again Sam in Casablanca

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And the reply is: nobody. That line isn't in the moving-picture show. We go the full scoop from the website The Phrase Finder:

This is well-known every bit i of the most widely misquoted lines from films. The bodily line in the film is 'Play it, Sam'. Something approaching 'Play it again, Sam' is offset said in the film by Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in an substitution with the pianoforte player 'Sam' (Dooley Wilson):

Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For one-time times' sake.
Sam: I don't know what you hateful, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "Equally Time Goes Past."
Sam: Oh, I can't recall it, Miss Ilsa. I'm a piffling rusty on it.
Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum…
Ilsa: Sing it, Sam.

The line is usually associated with Humphrey Bogart and later in the film his grapheme Rick Blaine has a like commutation, although his line is just 'Play information technology':

Rick: You know what I want to hear.
Sam: No, I don't.
Rick: You played it for her, you tin play it for me!
Sam: Well, I don't think I tin remember…
Rick: If she tin can stand information technology, I can! Play it!
(http://www.phrases.org.britain/meanings/284700.html)

So there you lot have it. It's almost similar hearing that Bugs Bunny never said, "What's upwards, Md?"

The plot of the motion-picture show is quite nuanced and complex, taking place during 1942 in the city of Casablanca, Kingdom of morocco, which is a magnet for refugees and shady agents on both sides of WWII because of its location on the coastline of Africa downward from Gibraltar. I won't try to summarize the whole thing here, only it has a nice setup and a fascinating moral issue. The setup is that Rick, the owner of Rick'due south Cafè, a gambling den and full general meeting place for those in the know, had been madly in love with a woman named Ilse in 1940. He'd  met her in Paris right at the start of the war. Okay. She'd thought at the time that her husband, a Czech resistance fighter named Victor Laszlo, had died in a concentration campsite. When the hubby showed up, alive and well, she'd gone off with him without a word to Rick. Now, in the film's present, she's in Casablanca with said husband and runs into Rick at that place. The moral issue? Should Rick aid Ilsa and her married man to escape the Nazis by giving them faux letters of transit, or should he just help the husband go abroad and proceed Ilse with him? (I'm oversimplifying madly hither.) The husband actually knows that Ilse loves Rick and is willing to leave by himself. Then what should Rick do? (I get a piffling irritated with the thought that it's up to the two men to make the conclusion.) At the final moment, Rick makes [!] Ilsa lath the plane to Lisbon with Laszlo, telling her that she would regret it if she stayed—"Perhaps non today, perhaps non tomorrow but before long and for the residue of your life". Well, then!

In the story "As Time Goes By" was Rick and Ilse's song–you lot know, "their" vocal. It was written past the American songwriter Herman Hupfeld and was basically his merely big striking, although I must mention that he was also the author of the immortal "When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On The Tuba." The song wasn't fifty-fifty written originally for the famous movie merely for a flopped Broadway evidence titled Everybody'south Welcome that ran for 139 performances in 1931. It was then re-used in a never-produced play called Everybody Goes to Rick's which follows the same basic story line as the motion-picture show. In 1942 a story editor at Warner Brothers persuaded the producer Hall B. Wallis to buy the film rights to the play, merely no i at the studio expected much from information technology. They were certainly proven wrong!

I can't resist including here the actual starting time poesy of the vocal which was omitted in the film and is almost unknown. I call back information technology sets up the ideas of the rest of the song very well, and am sorry that Albert Einstein missed out on beingness associated so strongly with romance.

This day and historic period we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like time
Still we abound a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein'due south theory
So nosotros must get downwards to world
At times relax, relieve the tension
No matter what the progress
Or what may all the same be proved
The elementary facts of life are such
They cannot exist removed.

Here'southward the clip from the movie which includes the song only besides the context around information technology:

And, because I only tin't resist, here's Hupfeld'south other hitting:

Hither are the lyrics every bit they appear in the picture show:

Y'all must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The cardinal things apply
As time goes past.

And when ii lovers woo
They still say "I beloved you"
On that you can rely
No thing what the future brings
As time goes past.

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs human, and homo must have his mate
That no one can deny.

It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A instance of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.

© Debi Simons

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