casablanca

     

Casablanca (Spanish for "whitehouse" {Casa = House, blanca = white} ; Amazigh: Anfa; Stanard Arabic: الدار البيضاء; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Greater Casablanca region.

Trivia about casablanca

  • This 1942 film gained greater distinction following a January 1943 meeting of Allied leaders in its title location
  • The Old Medina is the oldest section of this largest city in Morocco, sweetheart
  • 1942:"Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."
  • Ann Sheridan & Hedy Lamarr were considered for the role of Ilsa in this 1942 classic
  • Rick Blaine
  • As Rick, Bogart said he came to this city, Morocco's main port, for the waters
  • For best movie, Reader's Digest chose 8 films, including this one set at Rick's Cafe Americain
  • It's Morocco's largest city & chief seaport, sweetheart
  • 1942:"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"
  • Contrary to popular belief, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in this 1942 film
  • (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) This WWII classic set in war-torn Morocco is my candidate for the best Hollywood movie of all time
  • The sixteenth film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, it teamed Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman & Humphrey Bogart
  • 1942:"Louis, I think this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
  • 1942:Bogart as bitter Rick Blaine runs a bar in north Africa, sweetheart
  • 1942 film that includes the line, "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"
  • "Here's looking at you, kid" & at this 1942 classic which tops the list
  • What Bogart actually said in this film was "If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"
  • You must remember this is the most populous city in Morocco, but Rabat is the capital
  • In the No. 1 spot is this 1942 movie's script
  • In January 1943 FDR & Winston Churchill met in this North African city to discuss the war effort
  • You must remember this city in Arabic is Dar-El-Beida
  • "I'll have Sam play 'As Time Goes By'. I believe that's your favorite tune"
  • 1942:"It doesn't take much to see that the problems of 3 little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world"
  • Songs like "As Time Goes By" were as much the stars of this 1942 classic as the lead actors
  • "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
  • 1942--"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
  • This Bogart-Bergman film is better remembered than its source, the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's"
  • In it, Rick tells Ilsa, "I remember every detail; the Germans wore gray; you wore blue"
  • The 2008 Blu-ray release of this all-time classic comes with a passport holder, for your flight to Lisbon
  • This Moroccan city is a sister to Chicago; it might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Louis
  • Max Steiner wrote the score for this 1942 film, but it was Herman Hupfeld who gave us "As Time Goes By"
  • In this film, Bogie told Conrad Veidt, "Your business is politics. Mine is running a saloon"
  • Morocco
  • Morocco has its own "white house", this city whose name means just that
  • Translating the structure into Spanish gets you this Oscar winner
  • 1942:Ugarte,Sascha,Major Strasser
  • At a 1943 meeting in this N. African city, FDR & Churchill agreed to an invasion of "the soft underbelly of the Axis"
  • Major Strasser,Victor Lazslo
  • Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein & Howard Koch are grouped together for quotes from this classic 1942 film
  • "Mr. Rains is properly slippery and crafty as a minion of Vichy perfidy" in this drama
  • Rick gives Ilsa up to Victor in this 1942 film masterpiece
  • 1940s classic film in which the heroine says, "Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time"
  • One of the world's largest mosques, the Great Hassan II Mosque stands in this largest Moroccan city
  • Spread out along 10 miles of the coast, it's Morocco's chief port, Sweetheart
  • Lusaka,Casablanca,Dakar
  • In 1973 Kiss was signed to this fledgling record label that shares its name with a 1940s best picture Oscar winner
  • Hal Wallis was nominated for producing an amazing 19 times, but won only once -- for this 1942 Bogart classic
  • "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue"
  • Here's looking at you, kid, if you can tell me this name of Morocco's chief seaport and largest city
  • The world will always welcome great movie tunes like the one heard here, from this 1942 classic
  • In this movie, Captain Renault boldly exclaims, "If I were a woman... I should be in love with Rick"
  • As luck would have it, the 1942 film named for this city opened 3 weeks after the Allies landed there