Casablanca (1942)

Casablanca (1942)

 

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid

   

Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans

The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison

The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson

Warner Bros. story editor Irene Diamond convinced producer Hal B. Wallis to purchase the film rights to the play in January 1942

Brothers Julius and Philip G. Epstein were initially assigned to write the script. However, despite studio resistance, they left to work on Frank Capra's Why We Fight series early in 1942

Howard Koch was assigned to the screenplay until the Epsteins returned a month later

Principal photography began on May 25, 1942, ending on August 3; the film was shot entirely at Warner Bros

Studios in Burbank, California, with the exception of one sequence at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles

 

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