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Paul Henreid: Victor Laszlo
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Paul Henreid did not want the part of Victor Laszlo when he was first assigned the role as a contract player at Warner Brothers. His initial response was that the script was terrible and he didn't "want to be the second lover in a film, second to Humphrey Bogart!" But he allowed himself to be talked into the role, provided among other things that he get Ilsa at the end, as befits a leading man.[3] In other words, from the very start, he experienced a fundamental rivalry with respect to Humphrey Bogart's Rick.
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Of all the "gin joints" in Morocco, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with husband Victor (Paul Henreid) in tow, had to walk into the one owned by Rick (Humphrey Bogart), a former beau she abandoned in Paris. War looms over them all, and in a much-discussed ending, Rick and Ilsa make heroic but heartbreaking choices. Read More
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In 1940, Henreid became an American citizen--and, at last, a leading man. Henreid's inbred Continental sophistication struck a responsive chord with wartime audiences. He spent his finest years as an actor at Warner Bros., where he appeared as Jerry Durrance in Bette Davis' Now Voyager (1942), as too-good-to-be-true resistance leader Victor Lazslo in Casablanca (1942), and as troubled medical student Philip Carey in the 1946 remake of Of Human Bondage (1946). Henreid exhibited a great deal of vivacity in such swashbucklers as The Spanish Main (1945), Last of the Buccaneers (1950) and The Siren of Bagdad (1953); in the latter film, the actor engagingly spoofed his own screen image by repeating his lighting-two-cigarettes bit from Now Voyager with an ornate water pipe. He was ... an effective villain in Hollow Triumph (1948, which he also produced) and Rope of Sand (1949).
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Paul Henreid solía aparecer en algunas películas como: Paul von Hernreid o Paul von Hernried. Posiblemente su papel más destacado fue en la película Casablanca interpretando al jefe de la resistencia antinazi Victor Lazlo.
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In 1942, Henreid appeared in his two most important films. In Now, Voyager, Bette Davis and he created one of the screen's most imitated scenes, in which he lights two cigarettes and hands one to her. Henreid's next role was as Victor Laszlo, heroic anti-Nazi leader, in Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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When his long-lost love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), surfaces in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them.
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