What if Trivia

The producers of Casablanca originally cast Ronald Reagan in the part of Rick.



If they had gone through with this, I wonder if that would have meant that Humphrey Bogart would have been our 40th President? And would he have done a better job considering he had died 14 years prior to his election? I suppose we will never know. I suppose he would have been a little rotted and smelling on the campaign trail. Besides... he was too short to be president. No modern president was shorter than Bogart who stood, 5' 8"... but Bogart would have towered over James Madison who was only 5'4".