"I don't want to star in a movie with some unknown Swedish broad"!
George Raft really wasn't the greatest actor, so it's a good thing he didn't take the part.
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That's a really dumb reason not to take the part, but Bogart is so fantastic in the role it's hard to imagine anyone else as Rick Blaine. Interestingly they not only starred in a movie together earlier, but Raft's last role was in one called The Man with Bogart's Face.
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I remember reading once that George Raft had turned down a bunch of roles in great movies, including Double Indemnity and The Maltese Falcon!
https://www.filmink.com.au/stars-sto...s-george-raft/
George Raft had perhaps the worst judgement of any film star in Hollywood history. Now, everyone makes career mistakes, even stars with highly-paid advisers, but no one seemed to reject more scripts that turned out to be classics than Raft. Consider this list: Belle of the Nineties (1934), Dead End (1937), High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Double Indemnity (1944). Raft was offered them all but stepped away. If not for George Raft, it’s unlikely Humphrey Bogart would have become a movie star.
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High Sierra introduced me to the beautifully talented Ida Lupino. She stole the show in They Drive By Night.
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High Sierra introduced me to the beautifully talented Ida Lupino. She stole the show in They Drive By Night.
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Wow. George Raft in Casablanca? As Rick? I guess they could have also had a piano player named Dave playing waltzes too, but fortunately THAT didn't happen either.
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