Title: Round up the usual suspects : the making of Casablanca : Bogart, Bergman, and World War II /
Authors: Harmetz, Aljean.
Publisher: Hyperion,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Casablanca (Motion picture)
Abstract: 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.