Casablanca: Madeleine LeBeau still alive?

[commasense]

It took me a minute to realize that you were quoting Rick. :smack:

[Kropotkin]

Madeleine LeBeau died 1 May 2016, according to today’s Washington Post. I still tear up when she sings La Marseillaise in Casablanca.

[dropzone]

@Purd_Werfect

I just saw it for the first time. Based on description alone, it sounds like something that wouldn’t appeal to me. Despite that, I found it immediately compelling in a way few films have been. Everything in that movie is perfect. The look, the sound, the direction.

Nah, the dialogue was just one cliche after another. I knew the whole movie before I saw it.

Playing the scene again, both in memorial and because that damn song would inspire me to march straight into Hell, fixin’ for a fight. Au revoir, mon ami! We will meet again in Heaven, where you will shoot me down. :o

[E-DUB]

Casablanca was not “one cliche after another”. It was one great scene after another, many, if not most, of which have been so reused in other works that they have become cliches.

The singing of Le Marseillaise, for example, was used in “V”, the sci-fi series (only with, I believe, America the Beautiful).

[Baker]

@E-DUB

Casablanca was not “one cliche after another”. It was one great scene after another, many, if not most, of which have been so reused in other works that they have become cliches.

The singing of Le Marseillaise, for example, was used in “V”, the sci-fi series (only with, I believe, America the Beautiful).

I think we were being whooshed.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

He was . . . misinformed.

[Count_Blucher]

@Kropotkin

Madeleine LeBeau died 1 May 2016, according to today’s Washington Post. I still tear up when she sings La Marseillaise in Casablanca.

When it comes to Love, you’re a true Democrat.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Casablanca is my all-time favorite movie.

@Johnny_L.A

Lebeau was the prettiest member of the cast. Her passion shown in the short shot of her as she sings La Marseillaise is one of my favourite shots.

Absolutely: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/CCEB/production/_89695425_89695422.jpg. But I still give Ingrid B. top marks.

@ExTank

…What, in y’all’s opinion, makes this a classic?

For me:

Vibrant characters, often snappy dialogue, good vs. evil, intrigue, the death (and rebirth) of idealism, redemption, forgiveness, true love…yep, that’s all I got.

What about you?

All that, and a great cast, exotic setting, and the ideals of patriotism, service to a noble cause, and self-sacrifice.

@Johnny_L.A

I’ve never liked the way Sydney Greenstreet swats the fly, after telling Paul Henreid to go see Rick…

I always laugh when I see the English words on German Maj. Strasser’s office door in French- and Arabic-speaking Casablanca.

@Skammer

Well, make sure she gets home safely. And come straight back.

:: hangdog expression ::

Yes, boss.

[carnivorousplant]

@Elendil_s_Heir

:: hangdog expression ::

Yes, boss.

It is certainly one of my favorite films.
My Wife came across The African Queen a few evenings ago, and we watched it again.

[Rodgers01]

Wow… Obituary here: Madeleine LeBeau obituary | Movies | The Guardian

[outlierrn]

I never make plans that far ahead.