Classic Academy Award Films Casablanca 1942 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

"Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman starred in 'Casablanca' (1942), creating one of cinema's most beloved masterpieces with unforgettable romantic chemistry. Bogart, born December 25, 1899, in New York City, and Bergman, born August 29, 1915, in Stockholm, Sweden, led an extraordinary cast including Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. Director Michael Curtiz filmed at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. This timeless romantic dra