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“By the time she was given the role (of Ilsa Lund) in April, Bergman would have accepted a script much worse than Casablanca. She had been stuck in Rochester, New York, where her husband was in medical school, since August, and she despaired of ever making another movie.”

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Book:Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

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