Casablanca

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The original novel ended with Kinderman and Dyer talking about Casablanca (1942), whereas, in the ex [...]	D
The only film directed by Michael Curtiz to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.	D
Dooley Wilson was, in fact, the only member of the cast to have ever actually visited the city of Ca [...]	D
Although the censors would not allow it, there is a strong implication that Rick and Ilse were intim [...]	D
Julius Epstein made two attempts to turn the film into a Broadway musical, in 1951 and 1967, but nei [...]	D
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid later reprised their roles for a radio performance [...]	D
The scene of Maj. Strasser's arrival was filmed at Metropolitan Airport, now known as Van Nuys Airpo [...]	D
The Allies invaded Casablanca in real life on 8 November 1942. As the film was not due for release u [...]	D
When Rick refuses to allow a German civilian into the gambling room, the German shouts that he will [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
The street used for the exterior shots had recently been built for another film, Il canto del desert [...]	D
Rick's Cafe was one of the few original sets built for the film, the rest were all recycled from oth [...]	D
During a January 2023 piece on the public radio program Radio Diaries, both Noah Isenberg (author of [...]	D
The original unproduced play, "Everybody Comes to Rick's", was found by Irene Lee, who headed the st [...]	D
Paul Henreid did not get on well with his fellow actors. He considered Humphrey Bogart "a mediocre a [...]	D
The song "As Time Goes By" had been written years before the film was made. Thus, it was deemed inel [...]	D
Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet co-starred in many films, but here they have no scenes together.	D
Neither Ingrid Bergman nor Paul Henreid wanted to appear in the film. Bergman thought the material l [...]	D
When this film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Jack L. Warner was first on stage to accept t [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Paul Henreid's character orders the same drink in Casablanca that Henreid's character did in Perduta [...]	D
Rick's initial chess position: White: a2, b2, c2, d4, e5, f2, g2, h4, Ke1, Qd1, Ra1, Rh1, Bc1, Nc3, [...]	D
Rick's bet with Captain Renault for 10,000 francs would be the equivalent of $1,658.00 1942 dollars. [...]	D
Sydney Greenstreet wanted to wear something more ethnic to show that his character had assimilated i [...]	D
Conrad Veidt, who played Maj. Strasser, was well known in the theatrical community in Germany for hi [...]	D
Although the film itself wasn't owned by WB between 1956 and 1996 (its owners during this time being [...]	D
Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein finished their screenplay three days before the film began s [...]	D
The timing of the movie's release benefitted greatly from the late 1942 invasion of North Africa nea [...]	D
The theme from the film, "As Time Goes By" was later used for the Warner Bros' 75th Anniversary prom [...]	D
In the original screenplay "Everyone goes to Rick's", Sam is listed in the cast of characters as "TH [...]	D
When Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, he wears the dark German uniform. But, presumably, due to [...]	D
Due to its strong anti-Nazi themes, the film was not released in Germany until 1952, after the war w [...]	D
When Capt. Renault drops the bottle of Vichy water into the trash, he's symbolically rejecting the G [...]	D
The suggestion of joining the Free French in Brazzaville is not without merit. The city served as an [...]	D
Venerable character actor Clarence Muse, who lost the role of Sam to Dooley Wilson, played the role [...]	D
Humphrey Bogart's then-wife, actress Mayo Methot, continually accused him of having an affair with I [...]	D
Howard Hawks had said in interviews that he was supposed to direct this film and Michael Curtiz was [...]	D
The film is renowned for the international diversity of its cast and crew, who reportedly hailed fro [...]	D
Renault refers to Rick having served with the loyalists in Spain. Although Rick admits to having bee [...]	D
Bogart was an extremely avid and skilled chess player, and was known to have hustled games for money [...]	D
When Victor Lazslo is shown the ring briefly, at the start of the film, it has the symbol of the Fre [...]	D
At the beginning of the film, the spinning globe shows the extent of three empires during the Second [...]	D
The background of the final scene, which shows a Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior airplane with pers [...]	D
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt returned from a wartime conference in Casablanca with Winston C [...]	D
The phrase "usual suspects" refers to the number of suspects and not any specific individuals. This [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.	D
The "Casablanca Hangar" at the Van Nuys Airport, built in 1928, was demolished in 2007.	D
The difference in height between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman changes throughout the film. Thi [...]	D
In the play, the Ilsa character is an American named Lois Meredith; she does not meet Laszlo until a [...]	D
Some years ago in a shop dealing with historical documents, a photo still from this film was found, [...]	D
Hal B. Wallis's first choice for director was William Wyler.	D
During the flashback, Rick and Ilsa hear artillery fire and Rick says, "it's Germany's new 77" which [...]	D
The first scene that Michael Curtiz and company shot was one of the flashback scenes in Paris, which [...]	D
In the German version, the immortal line "Here's lookin' at you, kid", became, "Ich seh' Dir in die [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the Top 100 America's Greatest Love Story [...]	D
Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid make their first appearance 24 minutes into the film.	D
Sidney Greenstreet's iconic white suit would reappear in the 1968 film, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunte [...]	D
In opening sequences when Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca by plane, the aircraft depicted is an [...]	D
Ugarte cashes in winnings of 2,000 francs from his winnings at the roulette wheel. 2,000 Francs in 1 [...]	D
After hearing the French message via the loudspeaker, Rick predicts "Nothing can stop them now. Wedn [...]	D
In most of his scenes Claude Rains is smoking a cigarette. He never inhales, however, using the tric [...]	D
The first writers assigned to the script were twins Julius Epstein and Philip Epstein, who, against [...]	D
During the scene in which the "La Marseillaise" is sung over the German song "Die Wacht am Rhein" (" [...]	D
The rear half of the movie prop plane that Ilsa and Victor flew out of Casablanca can be seen as pla [...]	D
The film's success led to plans for a sequel, which was to be called Brazzaville. Ingrid Bergman was [...]	D
The original title of the screenplay, "Everybody Comes to Rick's," is uttered by Claude Rains in the [...]	D
It is unclear where the line "Here's looking at you, kid" originated, but it definitely predated bot [...]	D
A $100,000 insurance policy was taken out on the film's leading player, Humphrey Bogart, in case he [...]	D
In 1989, Casablanca (1942) was added to the National Film Registry by the United States Library of C [...]	D
In 2006, the film's script was named "Best Screenplay of All Time" by the Writers Guild of America.	D
S.Z. Sakall played the maitre d' at "Rick's "Cafe Americain." Sydney Greenstreet played Signor Ferra [...]	D
During Rick's flashbacks to Paris, he and Ilsa are shown dancing at a nightclub. The song to which t [...]	D
The music heard over the film's opening credits was a retread: composer Max Steiner had originally w [...]	D
Casablanca, Morocco, was one of the key stops for refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe, which is wh [...]	D
The title was changed from "Everybody Comes to Rick's" to Casablanca (1942) partly due to the succes [...]	D
The name of the Paris cafe, La Belle Aurore, means The Beautiful Dawn.	D
Just before he shot Maj. Strasser (Conrad Veidt), Humphrey Bogart ad-libbed the line, "All right, Ma [...]	D
The film's screenwriters, twins Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, objected initially to the c [...]	D
Ingrid Bergman's character's name, Ilsa, was suggested by director Michael Curtiz; he got it from a [...]	D
Peter Lorre, who played Ugarte, was born in what is now Slovakia and had changed his name from LÃ¡ [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered the Second World War. [...]	D
Ingrid Bergman's contract was owned by producer David O. Selznick, and producer Hal B. Wallis sent t [...]	D
During production, Humphrey Bogart was called to the studio to stand in the middle of the Rick's Caf [...]	D
The film ran into some trouble with Joseph Breen of the Production Code Administration (run by Josep [...]	D
In the 1980s this film's script was sent to readers at a number of major studios and production comp [...]	D
The hidden symbol within the ring shown to Victor Laszlo is the Cross Lorraine, used to denote Free [...]	D
The facade of the arched hanger featured in the film had previously been seen in the Laurel and Hard [...]	D
The phrase, "I'm shocked--shocked!," comes from an earlier Warner Bros. film, Five Star Final (1931) [...]	D
The set for Rick's Cafe was built in three unconnected parts so the internal layout of the building [...]	D
The film cost approximately $950,000, some $100,000 over budget.	D
It is never revealed why Rick cannot return to America. Julius J. Epstein later said that "my brothe [...]	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
In Peter Biskind's book, 'My Lunches with Orson', Orson Welles recounted a conversation he had had w [...]	D
On March 19, 1943, the film was banned in the Republic of Ireland for infringing on the Emergency Po [...]	D
"Rick's CafÃ© AmÃ©ricain" was modeled after the Hotel El Minzah in Tangier, Morocco.	D
The scene in which Victor Laszlo leads the band and patrons of Rick's in singing "La Marseillaise" w [...]	D
Murray Burnett (a high school teacher) and Joan Alison co-authored (the former while on summer vacat [...]	D
To prepare for working with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman watched Il falcone maltese (1941) many t [...]	D
Producer Hal B. Wallis originally wanted Philip Dorn in the role of Victor Laszlo, but he was unavai [...]	D
Later there were plans for a further scene--showing Rick, Renault and a detachment of Free French so [...]	D
The script was based on the unproduced play, 'Everybody Comes to Rick's'. MGM's Samuel Marx wanted t [...]	D
Producer David O. Selznick, to whom Ingrid Bergman was under contract, at first did not want to loan [...]	D
Oscar-winning screenwriters Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein are the grandfather and great-un [...]	D
After the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, the La Marseillaise clip was shared by th [...]	D
The quote "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine" Inspired [...]	D
"Here's looking at you, kid", was voted as the #5 movie quote by the American Film Institute, and as [...]	D
Because the film was made during WWII the production was not allowed to film at an airport after dar [...]	D
Renault tells Rick he knows that he ran guns to Ethiopia, referring to Italy's invasion in 1935. In [...]	D
Prior to the film's release, gossip items circulated that Humphrey Bogart was taking Swedish lessons [...]	D
The influx into Hollywood of large numbers of European exiles fleeing the war helped the casting eno [...]	D
The play's cast consisted of 16 speaking parts and several extras; the film script enlarged it to 22 [...]	D
Busy Asian American actor Spencer Chan makes an early appearance at the casino tables, accompanied b [...]	D
MichÃ¨le Morgan asked for $55,000, but Hal B. Wallis refused to pay it when he could get Ingrid Be [...]	D
Lisbon being the port of embarkation to the Americas for war refugees was also used in the TV minise [...]	D
At a salary of $25,000 for five weeks' work, Conrad Veidt was the highest-paid actor on the set and [...]	D
The movie's line "... I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship", was voted as the #20 [...]	D
The movie theme, "As Time Goes By," would be the theme song and the title of a popular British sitco [...]	D
Dooley Wilson was borrowed from Paramount at $500 a week.	D
In 1973, a Warner Bros. executive approached FranÃ§ois Truffaut about directing a remake. He refus [...]	D
Annina Brandel and her husband are seen several times before the casino encounter. Early in the film [...]	D
Paul Henreid was loaned to Warners for the role of Victor Lazlo by Selznick International Pictures a [...]	D
Casey Robinson, who re-wrote the romantic scenes between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was off [...]	D
The movie's line "I stick my neck out for nobody" was voted as the #42 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Li [...]	D
The first writers to tackle a screenplay were Ã†neas MacKenzie and Wally Kline, who spent six wee [...]	D
Veuve Cliquot champagne is still a fine beverage in 2021. Veuve is the French word for widow.	D
The uncredited Casey Robinson assisted with three weeks of rewrites, including contributing the seri [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of the top 100 America's Greatest Music in th [...]	D
No one knew right up until the filming of the last scene whether Ilsa would end up with Rick or Lasz [...]	D
The last line is one of the most misquoted lines in all of film history. The correct line is, "Louis [...]	D
The film had six quotes on the American Film Institute's list of top movie quotes, more than any oth [...]	D
The cigarette smoke seen in the cafe is not all from cigarettes. Stagehands "sprayed" smoke off-came [...]	D
Conrad Veidt's wife, Ilona (Lily) Prager, was Jewish and that is one of the reasons why he had to fl [...]	D
Contrary to popular belief, the line "[P]lay it again, Sam" is not spoken in this movie. Ingrid Berg [...]	D
In the original script, "Everyone Come to Rick's", Ilsa was not a "virtuous" woman. She was living w [...]	D
In the market scene, as one of the Resistance members is shot, the wall of the building behind him i [...]	D
The second unit montages, such as the opening sequence of the refugee trail and the invasion of Fran [...]	D
After Rick does a favor for a young couple, Sascha says a line in Russian: "Nu, kakoi chelovek, eto [...]	D
A film favorite of Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner who staged regular screenings at his mansion [...]	D
Leonid Kinskey was cast because he was Humphrey Bogart's drinking buddy. He was not the first choice [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
Madeleine Lebeau, who plays Yvonne, and Marcel Dalio, who plays croupier Emil, were husband and wife [...]	D
The entire picture was shot in the studio, except for the sequence showing Maj. Strasser's arrival, [...]	D
Due to World War II, post Pearl Harbor, mandatory BLACK OUTS occurred in shipyards and Airports - ev [...]	D
The Paris train station set was recycled from Perdutamente tua (1942).	D
Rita Hayworth and Margaret Lockwood were approached for the lead, but Warner Bros. couldn't get eith [...]	D
Back in the mid-2000s, Madonna wanted to remake the film with her as IIsa Lund and Ashton Kutcher as [...]	D
When Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein won an Oscar for their script, they became the first Ac [...]	D
"La Marseillaise", which the good-guys sing in to drown out the Nazis in Rick's cafe, was written in [...]	D
In many of the film's better-known posters, the shot of a trench coat- and fedora-wearing Humphrey B [...]	D
In the scene where young Bulgarian bride Annina Brandel comes to Rick for help with her dilemma, Ric [...]	D
Warner Bros. wanted to remove the song "As Time Goes By", but Ingrid Bergman had already had her hai [...]	D
Ingrid Bergman considered her left side as her better side, and to the extent possible that was the [...]	D
Sam's piano sold for more than $600,000 (Â£370,000) at a New York auction in December 2012.	D
Although Russian born character actor Leonid Kinskey was not the first choice for Sasha the bartende [...]	D
Although M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl are listed in the opening credits for "Songs", they are in fact [...]	D
"As Time Goes By" was written by lifelong bachelor Herman Hupfeld and debuted in the 1931 Broadway m [...]	D
Herbert Marshall, Dean Jagger, and Joseph Cotten were considered for the role of Victor Laszlo until [...]	D
Jack Benny may have had an unbilled cameo role, as claimed by a contemporary newspaper advertisement [...]	D
The Famous Climatic Airport Scene was at Van Nuys Airport, in the very young suburbs North of Los An [...]	D
Rick never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. If sh [...]	D
The iconic "La Marsaillaise" sequence was intended to have been even more pointed against the Nazis. [...]	D
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #3 Greatest Movie of All Time.	D
The emotion seen in Yvonne's expression as she sings was also shown from another perspective in the [...]	D
Corrina Mura plays the gypsy guitarist who sings in the cafe.	D
Early in the movie, Victor Laszlo acquires a large scar over his right eye. The reason for the scar' [...]	D
Rick and Ilsa standing over Sam's piano in Paris was the first scene to be shot. Filming a tender lo [...]	D
Was voted the 3rd Greatest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.	D
Contrary to popular belief, actor (and future United States President) Ronald Reagan was never slate [...]	D
Capt. Renault's line, "You like war. I like women", was changed from "You enjoy war. I enjoy women" [...]	D
The young Bulgarian wife desperate to leave Casablanca, Annina Brandel (played by Joy Page), describ [...]	D
Humphrey Bogart's character says in his Paris flashback to his lover that they could get a captain t [...]	D
As Major Strasse approaches Captain Renault after the singing of "La Marseillaise," a minor keyed ve [...]	D
Other actresses considered for the part of Ilsa were Edwige FeuillÃ¨re, MichÃ¨le Morgan and Tama [...]	D
What may seem to us like a throw-away line at the end of the movie, about Rick going to the Free Fre [...]	D
To maximize profits from foreign distribution of the film, the studio suggested that any unpleasant [...]	D
The medals worn by Captain Renault are, from left to right: the Legion of Honor, the 1914-1918 World [...]	D
The letters of transit that motivate so many characters in the film did not exist in Vichy-controlle [...]	D
Hal B. Wallis didn't want Humphrey Bogart wearing a hat too often in the film, as he thought it made [...]	D
The dialogue spoken by Carl when he is serving the German couple seeking to emigrate to America tran [...]	D
George Raft was never offered the role of Rick Blaine. The film was created as a Bogart vehicle (acc [...]	D
Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) never tells Victor, her husband (Paul Henreid), that she loves him. The closes [...]	D
The film was shot at Warner Bros. Studios on Stage 11. That stage was also the home of "Community Ge [...]	D
The first shot of Rick sees him playing chess; this was Humphrey Bogart's personal favorite past-tim [...]	D
S.Z. Sakall, who plays the maitre d' at Rick's Cafe, actually has more screen time than Peter Lorre [...]	D
Producer Hal B. Wallis nearly made the character Sam a woman. Hazel Scott, Lena Horne and Ella Fitzg [...]	D
Several times the writers discussed having Rick leave with Ilsa but this was always rejected, primar [...]	D
Many of the actors who played the Nazis were in fact German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany.	D
Producer Hal B. Wallis considered Hedy Lamarr for the role of Ilsa, but she was then under contract [...]	D
Dooley Wilson (Sam) was a professional drummer who faked playing the piano. As the music was recorde [...]	D
Captain Louis Renault utters the iconic command: "Round up the usual suspects!" with a clear conscie [...]	D
Ingrid Bergman replaced Hedy Lamarr in the film,	D
The action starts on Dec. 3, 1941, which is the date Rick used when signing a cafe-related document [...]	D
Dan Seymour, who played "Abdul, the Doorman", would later play villains opposite Humphrey Bogart in [...]	D
Warner Bros. purchased the play for $20,000, the most ever paid for an unproduced work up to that ti [...]	D
Howard Koch was instructed to start the screenplay all over again, paying particular attention to Ri [...]	D
The movie "Casablanca" plays a significant role in the plot of the 2016 best-selling novel, "A Gentl [...]	D
Director Michael Curtiz's Hungarian accent often caused confusion on the set. He asked a prop man fo [...]	D
After shooting, Max Steiner spoke against using "As Time Goes By" as the song identifying Rick and I [...]	D
Despite playing adversaries on-screen, both Conrad Veidt and Paul Henreid were both fervent anti-fas [...]	D
After the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001 a State Department employee, Kathy Kriger, who'd been sta [...]	D
The "Casablanca Hangar" filmed at the Van Nuys Airport, built in 1928, was demolished in 2007.	D
The airplane leaving for Lisbon at the end of the film is of Air France. Twice, their logo, the wing [...]	D
Around nine minutes into the movie, Rick OKs a credit slip dated 2-Dec-1941.	D
Although this was an overtly anti-Nazi film, it wasn't the first one that Warner Bros. had made (it [...]	D
In 1943, Jack Benny parodied the movie on his radio show, with himself as "Ricky Bogart" and Eddie ' [...]	D
With the death of Madeleine Lebeau on May 1, 2016, there are no surviving members of the credited ca [...]	D
Studio publicity in 1941 claimed that Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan were scheduled to appear in thi [...]	D
Ingrid Bergman's line "Victor Laszlo is my husband, and was, even when I knew you in Paris" was almo [...]	D
The French dialogue between Yvonne and the French officer translates as, French Officer: "Hey you, y [...]	D
The top of Sam's piano is hinged to open in two directions, in order to allow Rick to hide the lette [...]	D

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