“It’s about a girl who had just come to Paris from her home in Oslo. At the house of some friends, she met a man about whom she’d heard her whole life. A very great and courageous man. He opened up for her a whole beautiful world full of knowledge and thoughts and ideals. Everything she knew or ever became was because of him. And she looked up to him and worshiped him… with a feeling she supposed was love.”
Casablanca, dir. Michael Curtiz
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As MGM never allowed to record any bloopers to maintain the glamorous image if their stars, we will never get to see all those funny moments when an actor messed up his/her line or when something funny happened to them. However, there are a few unscripted moments in some of Norma Shearer’s films. In one scene in “Their Own Desire” she almost slipped and threatened to fall back into the swimming pool after Robert Montgomery was playing with her toes. In “Riptide” she is startled when the gramophone shuts close, in “A Free Soul” the donkey chases and knocks down a fellow actor and in “Marie Antoinette” the boy who plays her son wants to put down his chair a bit too enthusiastically, which makes him fall.
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“All hail Cleopatra, kindred of Horus and Ra, beloved of the moon and sun, daughter to Isis and of Upper and Lower Egypt - Queen!”
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