--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > I've been having some Internet conversations lately with one > of the women I knew only slightly during the Rama Daze, but > whom I've come to appreciate more As Time Goes By (cue Hoagy > Carmichael, who didn't even play piano when he played 'Sam' > in "Casablanca").
Oops, my bad. Hoagy Carmichael played piano in another Bogey movie; the person who played 'Sam' in "Casablanca" was Dooley Wilson. The story about him, however, is true. He was a singer, but didn't play any instruments, someone else's fingers being shot playing the piano in that movie in close-ups. People kept booking him for years afterwards as a solo act, and he'd get there and have to ask, "Where is my pianist?" and they'd have to run out and find one to back him up. No one actually ever said, "Play it again, Sam" in that movie, either. That's just a myth.
