CASABLANCA opens in New York. 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 classic. Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre all come to Rick's nightclub in Nazi occupied Morocco, 1942. Of all the gin joints in the world, she walks into mine. Here's lookin' at you, kid.