LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Paul Henreid
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Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) are upstairs in Rick's office, with Laszlo offering to buy the letters of transit. Rick refuses, and in reply to Laszlo's question as to why, Rick tells him to ask his wife. They then hear German officers singing Die Wacht am Rhein in the main room below. Rick and Laszlo go out on the balcony and look down at the Germans singing. Renault is watching from the bar, his eyebrow raised. Laszlo, listening tight-lipped, finally walks down the steps and goes decisively over to the band, telling them: "Play the Marseillaise!
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Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) is that man and he's ... long lost Ilsa's husband, much to Rick's surprise and chagrin. Significantly he's an important resistance leader at odds with German interests and this makes him a marked man in Casablanca. Though his political actions and status as a revolutionary figure put him in danger, it's Ilsa's struggle to choose between the two men in her life that concentrates his geopolitical problem into a personal concern and then blows it back out again, though not before a number of heartrending reversals.
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Paul Henreid (Paul George Julius von Hernried, 1908-1992) played Victor Laszlo, Ingrid Bergman's suave, crusading husband in Casablanca. He often played the worldly European in a variety of films of the 1940s and '50s. He later directed the “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” series and other TV productions. Henreid was born in Trieste (then an Adriatic naval port belonging to Austria-Hungary), the son of a Viennese banker. He was “discovered” by Otto Preminger in 1933, when Preminger was working with Max Reinhardt in Europe. Henreid was a well-known actor on the stage of Reinhardt's theater in Vienna from 1933 to 1938.
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Paul Henreid plays resistance leader Victor Laszlo. He was born Paul George Julius von Henreid, in Austria-Hungary in 1908. Like the character of Laszlo, Henreid was a refugee from the Third Reich and an opponent of Naziism. In 1933, he entered Max Reinhardt's acting school. From there, he continued his acting career in England, playing Prince Albert in Victoria the Great. The war made it dangerous to return home, and U.K.'s process of rounding up German, Austrian and Italian citizens for deportation made it dangerous to stay in England.
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Henreid married Elizabeth Gluck in 1936, with whom he had two daughters, Monica Henreid and Mimi Duncan. On March 29, 1992, he died of pneumonia, following a stroke, in Santa Monica, California. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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German-born Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), as Major Strasser, was one of the highest paid members of the Casablanca cast, making as much as co-stars Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid. Each of the three stars earned $25,000 for their work in the picture, but Veidt only had to work five weeks (at $5,000 per week) of the total ten weeks of filming. Humphrey Bogart, the only American among the nine top-billed stars, was paid $36,667 for his role as Richard “Rick” Blaine, “an American of indeterminate age.”
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