It arrived just as Joseph Breen returned to his desk at the PCA, and just as another regulatory body was taking form. On May 6, 1942, Variety reported that four out of the 11 films in production on the WB lot had militant themes. Warner Brothers, which had already been ahead of the curve on anti-Nazi rhetoric, pushed several war movies into production. The United States officially entered World War II on December 8, 1941, an event which triggered a wave of morale-boosting films and outright propaganda. Railing against Hitler, like the characters in Arise, My Love, was no longer the exception but the rule. When Casablanca entered pre-production in 1942, much had changed in America. The censors also flagged Rick’s best friend, Captain Louis Renault, for repeated offenses and insisted on a different death for the Nazi villain. Rick and Ilsa have an affair even after she reappears with her husband in Casblanca, and that wasn’t the only issue the PCA had with the movie. We never see Rick or Ilsa enjoying the “best sex” of their lives, but Harry’s picked up on something the screenwriters hinted at in the script - and that Joseph Breen obscured with an editing choice. But in this prelude to their own romance, they’ve stumbled upon one of Casablanca’s censored plotlines.
It’s one of the flirty arguments the pair revisit throughout When Harry Met Sally, as they slowly fall for each other. Harry and Sally are debating the ending of Casablanca as they drive from Chicago to New York in 1977. Even Ingrid Bergman, which is why she gets on the plane at the end of the movie.” “Yes, and so would any woman in her right mind,” Sally says.
“Than live with the man you’ve had the greatest sex of your life with, just because he owns a bar and that is all he does,” Harry finishes.
That probably sounds very snobbish to you, but I don’t.” Harry continues, “You’d rather be in a passionless marriage - “ “And be the first lady of Czechoslovakia,” Sally interrupts. “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in Casablanca married to a man who runs a bar. “Wouldn’t you rather be with Humphrey Bogart than the other guy?” Sally would not. “Of course she wants to stay,” Harry replies. “I don’t think she wants to stay,” Sally counters. That’s why he puts her on the plane,” Harry says. Hollywood Codebreakers: ‘Casablanca’ Disguises an Affair with a Dissolve
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