Where Did Play It Again Sam Originate

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And the reply is: nobody. That line isn't in the movie. Nosotros get the full scoop from the website The Phrase Finder:

This is well-known every bit i of the nigh widely misquoted lines from films. The actual line in the moving-picture show is 'Play it, Sam'. Something approaching 'Play it again, Sam' is showtime said in the motion picture by Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in an exchange with the piano histrion 'Sam' (Dooley Wilson):

Ilsa: Play it one time, Sam. For former times' sake.
Sam: I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."
Sam: Oh, I can't remember information technology, Miss Ilsa. I'm a trivial rusty on it.
Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum…
Ilsa: Sing it, Sam.

The line is unremarkably associated with Humphrey Bogart and later in the film his character Rick Blaine has a similar exchange, although his line is simply 'Play it':

Rick: You know what I desire to hear.
Sam: No, I don't.
Rick: You played it for her, you tin can play information technology for me!
Sam: Well, I don't think I tin call up…
Rick: If she can stand up it, I can! Play it!
(http://www.phrases.org.britain/meanings/284700.html)

So there y'all accept it. Information technology's almost like hearing that Bugs Bunny never said, "What'southward upwards, Medico?"

The plot of the movie is quite nuanced and circuitous, taking place during 1942 in the city of Casablanca, Morocco, which is a magnet for refugees and shady agents on both sides of WWII considering of its location on the coastline of Africa down from Gibraltar. I won't endeavor to summarize the whole thing here, but it has a nice setup and a fascinating moral upshot. The setup is that Rick, the owner of Rick's Cafè, a gambling den and general meeting place for those in the know, had been madly in dear with a woman named Ilse in 1940. He'd  met her in Paris correct at the start of the war. Okay. She'd thought at the fourth dimension that her husband, a Czech resistance fighter named Victor Laszlo, had died in a concentration camp. When the husband showed up, alive and well, she'd gone off with him without a give-and-take to Rick. At present, in the moving picture'southward present, she'south in Casablanca with said married man and runs into Rick there. The moral issue? Should Rick assistance Ilsa and her hubby to escape the Nazis by giving them false letters of transit, or should he merely help the husband go away and keep Ilse with him? (I'chiliad oversimplifying madly hither.) The husband actually knows that Ilse loves Rick and is willing to get out by himself. Then what should Rick practice? (I go a little irritated with the idea that it'south upwards to the two men to make the decision.) At the last moment, Rick makes [!] Ilsa lath the airplane to Lisbon with Laszlo, telling her that she would regret information technology if she stayed—"Perchance not today, maybe not tomorrow simply soon and for the balance of your life". Well, then!

In the story "As Time Goes By" was Rick and Ilse's song–you lot know, "their" song. It was written by the American songwriter Herman Hupfeld and was basically his just big hit, although I must mention that he was besides the writer of the immortal "When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On The Tuba." The vocal wasn't even written originally for the famous picture just for a flopped Broadway show titled Everybody's Welcome that ran for 139 performances in 1931. It was then re-used in a never-produced play called Everybody Goes to Rick's which follows the same basic story line every bit the movie. In 1942 a story editor at Warner Brothers persuaded the producer Hall B. Wallis to purchase the motion-picture show rights to the play, but no 1 at the studio expected much from it. They were certainly proven incorrect!

I can't resist including here the actual get-go verse of the vocal which was omitted in the movie and is nigh unknown. I retrieve it sets upwards the ideas of the rest of the vocal very well, and am sorry that Albert Einstein missed out on existence associated and so strongly with romance.

This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like 4th dimension
Still nosotros grow a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein'south theory
So we must get down to globe
At times relax, relieve the tension
No affair what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed.

Here's the clip from the movie which includes the song but likewise the context around information technology:

And, because I just tin't resist, here'south Hupfeld's other hit:

Here are the lyrics equally they appear in the film:

You must think this
A kiss is merely a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
Every bit time goes by.

And when two lovers woo
They all the same say "I love yous"
On that you tin can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by.

Moonlight and dearest songs
Never out of appointment
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs human being, and man must have his mate
That no one can deny.

Information technology'due south still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of exercise or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes past.

© Debi Simons

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