Tag: Ingrid Bergman

Casablanca in Casablanca

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|MH Rowe| Things are not quite as you remember in Casablanca. Consider before anything else the film’s hellish yet also somewhat corny setting. Here we have the city of Casablanca on the coast of Morrocco only days before Pearl Harbor, December 1941. None of the film’s characters know the fateful Japanese Continue reading

Mean Men & Wasted Women: The Audacious Excess of Hitchcock’s Notorious

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Medium close-up of T.R. Devlin, played by Cary Grant, and Alicia Huberman, played by Ingrid Bergman leaning in for a kiss while Devlin takes a phone call.

|Chris Polley| “Every man that looks at you is a menace,” says runaway Nazi Alexander Sebastian (played by Claude Rains), the third wheel to and ultimate mark of the American power couple (played by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman) at the center of Alfred Hitchcock’s… Continue reading