OMG! Joy Page has died at 83! She was the very sexy (and very underage) girl in Casablanca who begged Rick for his advice.
“If a person did something very, very bed and locked it away in her heart …”
She only got the part because she was family.
Damn. She was one of my earliest crushes.
Sigh.
I’m surprised to see that she was not the last surviving cast member. Madeleine LeBeau (Yvonne) is still alive at 84.
One bump. In the event anyone else remembers her.
(sigh)
Oh - heck yeah. The hot - what? Romanian? Bulgarian? - refugee who was married but whom Claude Rains’ Louis was trying to get into bed? She was cute! If not very convincing as a European refugee.
I was recently watching Casablanca on TV, so I remember her very well (she was supposed to be Bulgarian, btw). I was always amused by Louis’ indignation that Rick chose to interfere with his attempt to get her to sleep with him.
Oh, and while I was watching it a friend called during the “Marseilles” scene and asked what I was listening to. I was shocked (shocked, I tell you) to find out that she had never seen Casablanca. One of these days I will correct this gap in her cinematic experience.
Well, if you have Jews playing the roles of Nazis in the movie, it seems quite reasonable to have an American playing the part of a Bulgarian.
The actress I recall just barely – I do remember that she was beautiful. What stuck with me about the scene is that, despite his blatant attempt at sexual extortion, Captain Renault clearly is intended to be a sympathetic character, if a little rakish; it clearly is not even intended to strike a jarring note when, bested by Rick’s generous rigging of his own table, he remarks that there will be a French lady in the Cafe Americain the following day and “I would greatly appreciate it if she lost.” In this story, that is within his rights.
I think you were jumping ahead here…
I remember her. The scene always stuck out in my mind because I have a huge lech for Claude Raines. My reaction was “you idiot, you get your visas and you get to sleep with Claude Raines? And you have a problem with this??”
Yes, a very beautiful actress indeed.
Weakest casting in Casablanca. I always felt she sounded like Dorothy’s (The Wiazrd of Oz) pen-pal from Bulgaria, Kansas.
Still sad to hear of her going, though.
(Madeleine LeBeau was, to me, the most beautiful woman in the movie… )
You just hafta be pretty old.
Hey! I can say that, because I’m probably older than you. 
I see from imdb that she was also Jack Warner’s stepdaughter and was married for a long time to William T. Orr, who was executive producer for a whole heap of Warner Bros. TV shows (“Cheyenne,” “77 Sunset Strip”) etc.
Of course, you could get that from the link too. :o
Edited for stupidity.
Joy Page, Humphrey Bogart, and Dooley Wilson were the only (credited) actors in the movie who were born in the U.S.: