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And the answer is: nobody. That line isn't in the movie. We become the full scoop from the website The Phrase Finder:

This is well-known equally one of the about widely misquoted lines from films. The actual line in the film is 'Play it, Sam'. Something approaching 'Play it over again, Sam' is showtime said in the film by Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in an commutation with the piano role player 'Sam' (Dooley Wilson):

Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.
Sam: I don't know what yous mean, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "Equally Time Goes By."
Sam: Oh, I can't remember information technology, Miss Ilsa. I'grand a little rusty on it.
Ilsa: I'll hum it for you lot. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum…
Ilsa: Sing it, Sam.

The line is usually associated with Humphrey Bogart and later in the film his character Rick Blaine has a like substitution, although his line is simply 'Play it':

Rick: You know what I desire to hear.
Sam: No, I don't.
Rick: Yous played information technology for her, you can play information technology for me!
Sam: Well, I don't retrieve I can recall…
Rick: If she can stand it, I tin! Play it!
(http://www.phrases.org.great britain/meanings/284700.html)

Then at that place you have it. Information technology's well-nigh like hearing that Bugs Bunny never said, "What's up, Physician?"

The plot of the film is quite nuanced and complex, taking place during 1942 in the city of Casablanca, Morocco, which is a magnet for refugees and shady agents on both sides of WWII because of its location on the coastline of Africa down from Gibraltar. I won't attempt to summarize the whole thing here, merely it has a nice setup and a fascinating moral issue. The setup is that Rick, the owner of Rick'south Cafè, a gambling den and general meeting place for those in the know, had been madly in love with a adult female named Ilse in 1940. He'd  met her in Paris right at the start of the war. Okay. She'd thought at the time that her husband, a Czech resistance fighter named Victor Laszlo, had died in a concentration army camp. When the hubby showed up, alive and well, she'd gone off with him without a word to Rick. Now, in the film's nowadays, she's in Casablanca with said married man and runs into Rick there. The moral issue? Should Rick help Ilsa and her husband to escape the Nazis past giving them false letters of transit, or should he merely help the husband get away and keep Ilse with him? (I'g oversimplifying madly here.) The husband actually knows that Ilse loves Rick and is willing to leave by himself. So what should Rick practise? (I get a lilliputian irritated with the thought that information technology's up to the two men to make the decision.) At the last moment, Rick makes [!] Ilsa lath the plane to Lisbon with Laszlo, telling her that she would regret information technology if she stayed—"Maybe not today, perchance not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life". Well, then!

In the story "Every bit Time Goes By" was Rick and Ilse'southward song–you know, "their" song. Information technology was written by the American songwriter Herman Hupfeld and was basically his only big hit, although I must mention that he was also the author of the immortal "When Yuba Plays The Rhumba On The Tuba." The song wasn't even written originally for the famous movie just for a flopped Broadway evidence titled Everybody's Welcome that ran for 139 performances in 1931. It was so re-used in a never-produced play called Everybody Goes to Rick's which follows the same basic story line as the moving-picture show. In 1942 a story editor at Warner Brothers persuaded the producer Hall B. Wallis to buy the moving picture rights to the play, merely no one at the studio expected much from it. They were certainly proven wrong!

I can't resist including hither the actual commencement verse of the song which was omitted in the movie and is nigh unknown. I think information technology sets up the ideas of the rest of the song very well, and am lamentable that Albert Einstein missed out on beingness associated and so strongly with romance.

This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension
Yet nosotros abound a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory
And then we must go down to world
At times relax, relieve the tension
No matter what the progress
Or what may still be proved
The uncomplicated facts of life are such
They cannot be removed.

Hither'south the clip from the picture show which includes the song but too the context effectually information technology:

And, because I merely tin can't resist, hither's Hupfeld's other hit:

Here are the lyrics every bit they appear in the film:

Yous must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.

And when two lovers woo
They even so say "I love yous"
On that y'all can rely
No matter what the future brings
As fourth dimension goes by.

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts total of passion
Jealousy and detest
Adult female needs man, and man must accept his mate
That no one can deny.

It'south notwithstanding the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A instance of do or die
The earth will always welcome lovers
Every bit fourth dimension goes by.

© Debi Simons

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