(Though twenty-seven-year-old Ilsa still refers to fifty-six-year-old Sam as “boy.”) Silver Screen Collection/Getty Like all wartime American cinema, Casablanca operated under the watchful ...

Whether it’s the opening scene that swiftly outlines what’s at stake or the Parisian flashbacks that succinctly bring us up to speed on Rick and Ilsa’s love affair, Casablanca is an easy ...

The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca ... will help them escape to America. But when Ilsa, a former lover of Rick's, and her husband ...

Her character is inspired by Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa from "Casablanca", according to an interview Ferguson did with The Daily Beast. Coincidentally, much of the film was shot in Casablanca in Morocco.