re: Two questions about Casablanca.

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Plus, they weren't ripped, they were just thin. Actors in the thirties and forties weren't muscular, with rare exceptions.

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Good examples of this:



Johnny Weissmuller was considered "ripped" or muscular for the times.

And this was the 1953 Mr. Universe line up.

(Yes, that is Sean Connery in the middle.)



Actors "working out" to be in pictures didn't really start (maybe a few exceptions here and there) until the 1980s - Stallone was probably the first to make it part of his persona, followed closely by Arnold (of course, he was a bodybuilder first), then guys like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson (and so on).