Joy Page Quotes

A collection of quotes by Joy Page.

Joy Page was an American actress, born on November 9, 1924, in Los Angeles, California. She gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s for her talent and striking beauty. Page's birth name was Joy Cerrette Paige, but she changed it to Joy Page during her career.

Her most notable role came in 1945 when she portrayed Annina Brandel, the Bulgarian refugee in the classic film "Casablanca." Her performance alongside Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman left a lasting impression on audiences around the world. Page went on to appear in a variety of films during the 1940s, including "None But the Lonely Heart" (1944) and "Red House" (1947).

However, despite her early success, Joy Page's acting career didn't reach significant heights. She slowly transitioned into behind-the-scenes work, primarily focusing on writing and producing documentaries and television shows. This shift allowed her to explore her passion for storytelling from a different perspective.

Joy Page married twice and had two children. She passed away on April 18, 2008, at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, leaving behind a small yet memorable contribution to the golden era of Hollywood cinema. Her role in "Casablanca" remains one of her most celebrated achievements, ensuring her legacy in film history.

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been 'sold' to me as an essentially secular and democratic one. The idea was a haven for the persecuted and the survivors, a democracy in a region where the idea was poorly understood, and a place where as Philip Roth had put it in a one-handed novel that I read when I was about nineteen even the traffic cops and soldiers were Jews. This, like the other emphases of that novel, I could grasp. Indeed, my first visit was sponsored by a group in London called the Friends of Israel. They offered to pay my expenses, that is, if on my return I would come and speak to one of their meetings.I still haven't submitted that expenses claim. The misgivings I had were of two types, both of them ineradicable. The first and the simplest was the encounter with everyday injustice: by all means the traffic cops were Jews but so, it turned out, were the colonists and ethnic cleansers and even the torturers. It was Jewish leftist friends who insisted that I go and see towns and villages under occupation, and sit down with Palestinian Arabs who were living under house arrest if they were lucky or who were squatting in the ruins of their demolished homes if they were less fortunate. In Ramallah I spent the day with the beguiling Raimonda Tawil, confined to her home for committing no known crime save that of expressing her opinions. (For some reason, what I most remember is a sudden exclamation from her very restrained and respectable husband, a manager of the local bank: 'I would prefer living under a Bedouin to another day of Israeli rule!' He had obviously spent some time thinking about the most revolting possible Arab alternative.) In Jerusalem I visited the Tutungi family, who could produce title deeds going back generations but who were being evicted from their apartment in the old city to make way for an expansion of the Jewish quarter. J

Christopher Hitchens