CASABLANCA opens in NY. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, from the play Everybody Comes To Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The enduring masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre holding court in Rick's Moroccan gin joint in Nazi occupied Nth. Africa, circa 1942. And a love lost & found. Here's lookin' at you, kid.