Casablanca Newlywed Joy Page Dies at 83

Bogie told her, "Go Back to Bulgaria." But then he arranged for the luckless refugee groom to win miraculously at the roulette table - so the lovely young bride wouldn't have to sacrifice her virtue to the corrupt police captain for a visa. Awwww.

Pretty, dark-haired Joy Page, the stepdaughter of studio head Jack Warner, was just 17 when she played the role of Annina Brandel in Casablanca. It was a pretty little subplot that mirrored the larger theme of sacrificing for love. It allowed the rakish Claude Rains to accuse Bogart's character of being a closet softie, and warn him: "There's a stunning blonde coming in tomorrow and I'll be very pleased if she loses."

The actress passed away this week in California from complications of stroke and pneumonia.