Was Play It Again Sam Ever Said in Casablanca

Black-and-white film screenshot of a man and woman as seen from the shoulders up. The two are close to each other as if about to kiss.
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And the answer is: nobody. That line isn't in the movie. We become the full scoop from the website The Phrase Finder:

This is well-known as 1 of the virtually widely misquoted lines from films. The actual line in the pic is 'Play it, Sam'. Something approaching 'Play it again, Sam' is showtime said in the picture by Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in an substitution with the piano histrion 'Sam' (Dooley Wilson):

Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.
Sam: I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes Past."
Sam: Oh, I can't remember it, Miss Ilsa. I'thousand a trivial rusty on it.
Ilsa: I'll hum it for you lot. 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 picture his grapheme Rick Blaine has a like exchange, although his line is but 'Play it':

Rick: Yous know what I want to hear.
Sam: No, I don't.
Rick: Y'all played it for her, y'all can play it for me!
Sam: Well, I don't recall I can remember…
Rick: If she tin can stand up it, I can! Play it!

(http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/284700.html)

Then there yous accept it. It'due south almost similar hearing that Bugs Bunny never said, "What's up, Doc?"

The plot of the film is quite nuanced and complex, taking place during 1942 in the urban center of Casablanca, Morocco, which is a magnet for refugees and shady agents on both sides of WWII because of its location on the coastline of Africa downwardly from Gibraltar. I won't try to summarize the whole thing hither, but it has a nice setup and a fascinating moral issue. The setup is that Rick, the owner of Rick's Cafè, a gambling den and full general meeting place for those in the know, had been madly in love with a adult female named Ilse in 1940. He'd  met her in Paris correct at the commencement of the war. Okay. She'd thought at the time that her married man, a Czech resistance fighter named Victor Laszlo, had died in a concentration camp. When the hubby showed up, live and well, she'd gone off with him without a give-and-take to Rick. Now, in the picture'due south nowadays, she'due south in Casablanca with said married man and runs into Rick in that location. The moral issue? Should Rick help Ilsa and her husband to escape the Nazis past giving them false messages of transit, or should he just assistance the husband go abroad and go on Ilse with him? (I'm oversimplifying madly here.) The married man actually knows that Ilse loves Rick and is willing to leave by himself. Then what should Rick do? (I get a little irritated with the idea that it's up to the two men to make the determination.) At the last moment, Rick makes [!] Ilsa lath the airplane to Lisbon with Laszlo, telling her that she would regret it if she stayed—"Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow only soon and for the rest of your life". Well, then!

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

I can't resist including here the bodily first verse of the song which was omitted in the motion picture and is almost unknown. I think it sets upward the ideas of the rest of the song very well, and am sad that Albert Einstein missed out on being associated then strongly with romance.

This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things similar fourth dimension
Yet we grow a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory
And then we must get down to world
At times relax, relieve the tension
No matter what the progress
Or what may however be proved
The elementary facts of life are such
They cannot exist removed.

Hither'south the clip from the motion picture which includes the vocal only also the context effectually it:

And, considering I but can't resist, here's Hupfeld's other hit:

Here are the lyrics equally they appear in the flick:

Yous must remember this
A kiss is only a osculation
A sigh is just a sigh
The primal things apply
As time goes past.

And when two lovers woo
They nonetheless say "I beloved y'all"
On that y'all tin rely
No affair what the future brings
As time goes by.

Moonlight and honey songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and detest
Adult female needs human, and man must have his mate
That no 1 can deny.

It'due south still the same onetime story
A fight for beloved and glory
A case of do or dice
The world volition always welcome lovers
Equally time goes past.

© Debi Simons

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