The film is renowned for the international diversity of its cast and crew, who reportedly hailed from some 34 different countries or nations. Only three members of the credited cast (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson, and Joy Page (stepdaughter of studio head Jack L. Warner, making her film debut as Annina, the troubled young Bulgarian bride) were born in the United States. Conrad Veidt and Curt Bois were from Germany, Peter Lorre from what is now Slovakia, S.Z. Sakall and director Michael Curtiz were from Hungary, Ingrid Bergman from Sweden, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet and editor Owen Marks from England, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine and composer Max Steiner from Austria, Madeleine Lebeau and Marcel Dalio from France, Leonid Kinskey from Russia, John Qualen from Canada (along with Warners chief Jack L. Warner). In addition, of the 93 uncredited extras, 71% were not American-born.

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