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The enormous success of Casablanca redefined Bogart's career.

For the first time, Bogart could be cast successfully as a tough, strong man and, at the same time, as a vulnerable love interest.

Despite Bogart's elevated standing, he did not yet have a contractual right of script refusal, so when he got weak scripts, he dug in his heels, and locked horns again with the front office, as he did on the film Conflict ( 1945 ).

Though he submitted to Jack Warner on that picture, he successfully turned down God is My Co-Pilot ( 1945 ).

During part of 1943 and 1944, Bogart went on USO and War Bond tours accompanied by Mayo, enduring arduous travels to Italy and North Africa, including Casablanca.