"traced the path to Morocco shown in the film's opening scene. Notes Bibliography Streaming audio Casablanca (film) Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play ""Everybody Comes to Rick's"". The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid; it also features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. Set during contemporary World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate who must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, escape from"
"Casablanca Express Casablanca Express is a 1989 Italian action war film starring Jason Connery and Francisco Quinn that was filmed in Morocco. It was produced by Pietro Innocenzi and Umberto Innocenzi and directed by Sergio Martino. The film was later featured in an episode of ""Cinema Insomnia"". In 1942 Winston Churchill arrives in Algiers. He plans to travel on to Casablanca where he will meet Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin for the Casablanca Conference. His aides and army commanders strongly advise against travelling by train, but Churchill is adamant. Intelligence discovers that Churchill's presence is known to the Germans,"
"ultimate winner turned out to be the British wartime naval saga, ""In Which We Serve""), but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences insisted that since ""Casablanca"" was not released nationally until early 1943, it would compete at the Award ceremony taking place in 1944. Sixteen months after its New York premiere, ""Casablanca"" won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. There were five additional nominations: Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart), Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains), Best Cinematography, Black-and White (Arthur Edeson), Best Film Editing (Owen Marks) and Best"
"Casablanca (1983 TV series) Casablanca is an American drama series, based on the 1942 film of the same name set in the genre of spying and intrigue during World War II. Five episodes were filmed but, following its NBC premiere on April 10, 1983, and two additional installments on April 17 and 24, it was taken off the air. The two remaining unaired episodes were ultimately scheduled four months later, during summer programming, and shown on August 27 and September 3. As in the 1942 feature, which was widely released in 1943 and won the Academy Award for Best Picture"
"""On Santa Fe Trail"" and ""This Is the Army"") sent condolences to the family. Wallis is interred in a crypt at the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. 1938 and 1943 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Awards Hal B. Wallis Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938), and ""True Grit"" (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and"
"travelled to Casablanca by plane. Casablanca Express Casablanca Express is a 1989 Italian action war film starring Jason Connery and Francisco Quinn that was filmed in Morocco. It was produced by Pietro Innocenzi and Umberto Innocenzi and directed by Sergio Martino. The film was later featured in an episode of ""Cinema Insomnia"". In 1942 Winston Churchill arrives in Algiers. He plans to travel on to Casablanca where he will meet Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin for the Casablanca Conference. His aides and army commanders strongly advise against travelling by train, but Churchill is adamant. Intelligence discovers that Churchill's presence"
"""Casablanca"" went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Curtiz was selected as Best Director and the Epsteins and Koch were honored for writing the Best Adapted Screenplay—and gradually its reputation grew. Its lead characters, memorable lines, and pervasive theme song have all become iconic, and the film consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history. In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. ""Rick's Café Américain"" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and German officials, refugees desperate to reach the still-neutral United"
"Los Angeles. Although ""Casablanca"" was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected it to be anything other than one of the hundreds of ordinary pictures produced by Hollywood that year. ""Casablanca"" was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. The film was a solid if unspectacular success in its initial run. Exceeding expectations,"
"control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910. It was especially during the years of military governor Hubert Lyautey that Casablanca became Morocco's economic center and Africa's biggest harbour. The famous 1942 film ""Casablanca"" underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers, carried out without any reference to the local population, and with the film's vast cosmoplitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Czech and some other nationalities) including not a single Arab. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A terrorist"
"not formalised until 1910. Under the French rule, Muslim anti-Jewish riots occurred in 1908. The famous 1942 film ""Casablanca"" (starring Humphrey Bogart) underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers. The film has a cosmopolitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Spaniard, Czech, Norwegian, Austrian, Bulgarian, Russian, and some other nationalities). Europeans formed almost half the population. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A bomb attack on 25 December 1953 (Christmas Day) caused 16 deaths. Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast)"
"A Night in Casablanca A Night in Casablanca is a 1946 film starring the Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, and Harpo. The picture was directed by Archie Mayo, and written by Joseph Fields and Roland Kibbee. Set in Casablanca shortly after World War II, escaped Nazi war criminal Heinrich Stubel (Sig Ruman) has steadily murdered three different managers of the Hotel Casablanca. Disguised as a Count Pfferman, Stubel's goal is to reclaim the stolen art treasures that he has hidden in the hotel. However, the only way he can do this undetected is by murdering the hotel's managers and running the"
"including and following the revisions. Because of the contributions from both Hemingway and Faulkner, the film represents the only film story on which two winners of the Nobel Prize of Literature worked. Filming began on February 29, 1944 as Faulkner worked on the script, ending on May 10. The film released nationally on October 11, 1944. Audience reception of the film was generally good, with most film critics claiming the film was a remake of ""Casablanca"" (1942). These reviews were mixed, either praising or condemning the film in comparison to ""Casablanca"". Critics specifically mentioned Lauren Bacall's performance or the chemistry"
"was survived by his wife, Estelle (née Williams), who died in 1971. Dooley Wilson Arthur ""Dooley"" Wilson (April 3, 1886 – May 30, 1953) was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, ""Casablanca""; in the film, he also performed its theme song, ""As Time Goes By"". Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films. His role in ""Casablanca"" was"
"Dooley Wilson Arthur ""Dooley"" Wilson (April 3, 1886 – May 30, 1953) was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, ""Casablanca""; in the film, he also performed its theme song, ""As Time Goes By"". Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films. His role in ""Casablanca"" was by far his most prominent, but his other films included ""My Favorite"
"Victory"", ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"", ""The Maltese Falcon"", ""Sergeant York"", and ""Now, Voyager"". In March 1944, Wallis won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 16th Academy Awards. During the ceremony, when the award was announced for Casablanca, Wallis got up to accept, but studio head Jack L. Warner rushed up to the stage ""with a broad, flashing smile and a look of great self-satisfaction,"" Wallis later recalled. ""I couldn't believe it was happening. ""Casablanca"" had been my creation; Jack had absolutely nothing to do with it. As the audience gasped, I tried to get out of the"
"for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German"
"members of a ""subversive organization,"" they wrote, ""Yes. ""Warner Brothers""."" Epstein died of cancer in Hollywood, California in 1952 at the age of 42. Julius outlived him by forty-eight years, dying in 2000 at age 91. Selected filmography as a screenwriter: Philip G. Epstein Philip G. Epstein (August 22, 1909 – February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his screenplay for the film ""Casablanca"" (1942), which won an Academy Award. He had written it in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and Howard Koch as an adaptation of the unproduced play, ""Everybody Comes to Rick's,"" written by"
"(1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which led to him having the role of Major Strasser in ""Casablanca"" (1942). Veidt was born in a bourgeois district of Berlin, Germany, the son of Amalie Marie (née Gohtz) and Phillip Heinrich Veidt. (Some biographies wrongly state that he was born in Potsdam, probably on the basis of an early claim on his part.) His family was Lutheran. In 1914, Veidt met actress Lucie Mannheim, with whom he began a relationship. Later in the year Veidt was conscripted into the German Army during World War I. In 1915, he was"
"Julius J. Epstein Julius J. Epstein (August 22, 1909December 30, 2000) was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, best remembered for his screenplay, written with his twin brother, Philip, and Howard E. Koch, of the film ""Casablanca"" (1942), for which the writers won an Academy Award. It was adapted from an unpublished play, ""Everybody Comes to Rick's,"" written by Murray Bennett and Joan Alison. His identical twin died in 1952, a loss that he felt for the rest of his life. He continued writing, receiving two more Oscar nominations. In 1998, he received a Los Angeles Film Critics"
"Hal B. Wallis Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938), and ""True Grit"" (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. Aaron Blum Wolowicz was born October 19, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of"
"Casablanca Conference The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill. Also attending and representing the Free French forces were Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud, though they played minor roles and were not part of the military planning. Premier Joseph Stalin had declined to attend, citing the ongoing Battle of Stalingrad as requiring his presence in the"
"of the conference to the American people in a radio address on February 12, 1943. Casablanca Conference The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill. Also attending and representing the Free French forces were Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud, though they played minor roles and were not part of the military planning. Premier Joseph Stalin had"
"Philip G. Epstein Philip G. Epstein (August 22, 1909 – February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his screenplay for the film ""Casablanca"" (1942), which won an Academy Award. He had written it in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and Howard Koch as an adaptation of the unproduced play, ""Everybody Comes to Rick's,"" written by Murray Bennett and Joan Alison. Epstein was born to a Jewish family in New York City and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; his identical twin brother was Julius Epstein. Their father, Harry was a livery stable owner in"
"Casablanca. Marc Sorkin Marc Sorkin or Mark Sorkin (1902–1986) was a Russian-born film editor and director. He worked with Georg Wilhelm Pabst on a number of films as editor or assistant director. He was born in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then part of the Russian Empire. He began working in the German film industry in Berlin in the 1920s. Following the Nazi Party's takeover of power in 1933, the Jewish Sorkin left for France where he worked in that country's cinema industry. After the Invasion of France by the Germans in 1940 he left for the United States"
"expansion plan. In 1999, the city managed to gain Cartoon Network Studios which took up residence in an old commercial bakery building located on North 3rd St. when it separated its production operations from Warner Bros. Animation in Sherman Oaks, CA. Burbank has a rich cinematic history. Hundreds of major feature films have filmed in Burbank over the years, but perhaps none more famous than ""Casablanca"" (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart. The movie began production a few months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Due to World War II, location shooting was restricted and filming near airports was banned. As"
"magic of Bogart and Bergman was the result of two actors working at their best, not any real-life sparks, though Bogart's perennially jealous wife assumed otherwise. Off the set, the co-stars hardly spoke. Bergman, who had a reputation for affairs with her leading men, later said of Bogart, ""I kissed him but I never knew him."" Because Bergman was taller, Bogart had blocks attached to his shoes in certain scenes. ""Casablanca"" won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Picture. Bogart was nominated for an Academy Award Best Actor in a Leading Role, but lost to Paul Lukas for his performance"
"""Casablanca"" in which he played Carl, the head waiter. The comic style of Ernie Kovacs influenced numerous television comedy programs for years to come. The Fox Film Corporation was formed by William Fox. Comedian, Actor and Producer Louis C.K (born Louis Székely) is a US-Mexican dual citizen. His grandfather, Géza Székely Schweiger, immigrated to Mexico with his family from Hungary. Actress Vilma Bánky starred in numerous silent films opposite Hollywood legends such as Rudolph Valentino and Ronald Colman. Actor Adrien Brody's mother was Hungarian. Actress Rachel Weisz's father was Hungarian inventor George Weisz. Actress Drew Barrymore's mother is Hungarian. Actor"
"thirty-eight rejected it outright, thirty-three generally recognized it (but only eight specifically as ""Casablanca""), three declared it commercially viable, and one suggested turning it into a novel. Many subsequent films have drawn on elements of ""Casablanca"". ""Passage to Marseille"" (1944) reunited actors Bogart, Rains, Greenstreet, Lorre and director Curtiz in 1944, and there are similarities between ""Casablanca"" and another later Bogart film, ""To Have and Have Not"" (also 1944). Parodies have included the Marx Brothers' ""A Night in Casablanca"" (1946), Neil Simon's ""The Cheap Detective"" (1978), and ""Out Cold"" (2001). Indirectly, it provided the title for the 1995 neo-noir film"
"""Dumbo"" (1941) and ""Bambi"" (1942). The onset of US involvement in World War II also brought a proliferation of films as both patriotism and propaganda. American propaganda films included ""Desperate Journey"" (1942), ""Mrs. Miniver"" (1942), ""Forever and a Day"" (1943) and ""Objective, Burma!"" (1945). Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi ""Watch on the Rhine"" (1943), scripted by Dashiell Hammett; ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder; the George M. Cohan biopic, ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" (1942), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular ""Casablanca"", with Humphrey Bogart. Bogart would star in"
"Dictator"" (1940) clearly satirised fascism. Michael Curtiz's ""Casablanca"" (1943) was not simply a romance between the characters played by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, but vilified the Nazis and glorified resistance to them. Frank Capra's ""Why We Fight"" series (1942–1945) won the 1942 Academy Award for best documentary, though it was designed to ""influence opinion in the U.S. military"". During the Cold War, ""propaganda played as much of a role in the United States' struggle with the Soviet Union as did the billions of dollars spent on weaponry."" ""Face to Face with Communism"" (1951) dramatised an imagined invasion of the"
"Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea; as a tourist in the 1939 drama, ""Only Angels Have Wings"", starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, which is considered to be one of Howard Hawks' finest films; as a warrior in the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby comedy classic, ""Road to Morocco"" (1942); in the classic World War I drama, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943), starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, in which he played a sergeant; as a native officer in the classic World War II romance, ""Casablanca"", starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman; as an aide in the 1944 version of"
"Caboblanco Caboblanco (1980) is an American drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Dominique Sanda and Jason Robards. The film has often been described as a remake of ""Casablanca"". The movie marks the third collaboration between Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson (following 1976's St. Ives and 1977's The White Buffalo). Giff Hoyt (Bronson), a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief"
"meanings which he has for each person. Because of its November 1942 release, the New York Film Critics decided to include the film in its 1942 award season for best picture. ""Casablanca"" lost to ""In Which We Serve"". However, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stated that since the film went into national release in the beginning of 1943, it would be included in that year's nominations. ""Casablanca"" was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won three. As Bogart stepped out of his car at the awards ceremony, ""the crowd surged forward, almost engulfing him and his wife,"