Casablanca

Trivia

• Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
• Won the Academy Award for Best Director.
• Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
• Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
• Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Academy Award for Best Film Editing; and 1 more.
• Based on Everybody Comes to Rick's (1940 play written by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison).
• The project was renamed Casablanca, apparently in imitation of the 1938 hit Algiers.
• Casablanca also shares many narrative and thematic similarities with Algiers, which itself is a remake of the acclaimed 1937 French film Pépé le Moko, directed and co-written by Julien Duvivier.
• The original play was inspired by a trip to Europe made by Murray Burnett and his wife in 1938, during which they visited Vienna shortly after the Anschluss and were affected by the antisemitism they saw.

Filming Locations

• California
• The entire picture was shot in the studio except for the sequence showing Strasser's arrival and close-ups of the Lockheed Electra (filmed at Van Nuys Airport) and a few short clips of stock footage views of Paris.

Previous Showings

35 Runs • 24 Festivals

Original Billings: 1 run (February 24, 1943)

Original Run: February 24, 1943 (Wednesday - Saturday)

All runs on record (35):

• February 24, 1943 (Wednesday - Saturday)Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
• April 24 - 28, 1993w/ Mrs. Miniver
• January 15 - 19, 1995w/ The Hound of the Baskervilles
• April 24 - 26, 1995w/ The Big Sleep
• December 26 - 30, 1997Featuring Humphrey Bogartw/ The Maltese Falcon
• January 15 - 17, 1999Winter 1999w/ Notorious
• January 21 - 24, 1999Winter 1999w/ Notorious
• January 29 - 31, 1999Winter 1999w/ Notorious
• February 5 - 7, 1999Winter 1999w/ Notorious
• June 11 - 17, 1999summer99w/ Notorious
• December 31, 1999w/ It's a Wonderful Life
• June 10 - 16, 2000Summer 2000w/ Yankee Doodle Dandy
• July 21 - 31, 2001summer2k1w/ The Big Sleep
• January 17 - 30, 2003FilmNoirw/ The Big Sleep
• January 16 - 18, 2004w/ The War of the Worlds
• February 10 - 12, 2006Winter 2006w/ The Maltese Falcon
• August 11 - 14, 2006Summer 2006w/ Notorious
• August 11 - 14, 2007Summer 2007 63 films in 12 weeks, including 22 films starring Fred Astairew/ In a Lonely Place
• November 14 - 20, 2008Humphrey Bogart Also, Holiday Favoritesw/ Beat the Devil
• June 9 - 11, 2009Summer 2009
• December 18 - 19, 200920th Anniversary Festivalw/ The Philadelphia Story
• June 26 - 29, 2010Summer 2010w/ Singin' in the Rain
• July 9 - 14, 2011Summer 2011w/ The Maltese Falcon
• January 7 - 13, 2012w/ To Be or Not to Be
• September 14 - 22, 2013The Best of Bogart and Film Noir Classicsw/ The Maltese Falcon
• March 14 - 20, 2014Starring Barbara Stanwyckw/ Double Indemnity
• January 22 - 24, 2016w/ Gilda
• January 13 - 20, 2017British and Lubitschw/ To Be or Not to Be
• September 2 - 4, 2017Warner Brosw/ The Maltese Falcon
• April 6 - 8, 2018Hitchcock and Other Masters of Suspense plus, Frankenstein at 200w/ Gaslight
• February 8 - 10, 2019Humphrey Bogart Festivalw/ In a Lonely Place
• July 16 - 17, 2022Summer 2022w/ In a Lonely Place
• September 8 - 10, 2023September 2023 Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn every Friday through Sundayw/ Roman Holiday
• July 24 - 27, 2025Summer 2025w/ Only Angels Have Wings
• June 26 - 28, 2026Summer 2026 including the Films of Marilyn Monroew/ The Maltese Falcon

More

• Tile: Casablanca
• IMDb: Casablanca
• Wikipedia: Casablanca (film)