Round up the usual suspects : the making of Casablanca : Bogart, Bergman, and World War II / Aljean Harmetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harmetz, Aljean.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Casablanca (Motion picture).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hyperion, [1992]

Summary:

In late 1941, a play called Everybody Comes to Rick's went from being a standard World War II romantic suspense film to an exceptional movie, earning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Harmetz has written the inside story of the making of Casablanca.

Contents:

Just another movie

The studio: Jack L. Warner, executive producer ... and Hal B. Wallis

Writing Casablanca: A survival of the fittest script

False starts

Bogart, Bergman, and Henreid: A date with fate

The studio system goes to war

The first day of shooting

The usual suspects: Rains, Veidt, Greenstreet, Lorre, and Wilson

Love and censorship

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Working relationships: On the set and off

The refugee trail: Europeans in Hollywood

At the airport: The end of production

"Our ism ... Americanism"

Play it, Sam

Selling the movie and selling the war

Controlling Hollywood

The Academy Awards

As time went by

The first fifty years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-389) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Harmetz, Aljean. Round up the usual suspects.

ISBN:

1562829416

9781562829414

1562827618

9781562827618

OCLC:

26160407

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