Casablanca
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Burnett, Murray and Joan Alison. Everybody Comes to Rick's. New York: Wharton and Gabel, 1941.
Francisco, Charles. You Must Remember This . . . : The Filming of Casablanca . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
Harmetz, Aljean. The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II. New York: Hyperion, 1992. (Previously published as Round up the Usual Suspects.)
Koch, Howard, Comp. Casablanca: Script and Legend. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1973.
Lebo, Harlan. Casablanca: Behind the Scenes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Osborne, Richard E. The Casablanca Companion: The Movie Classic and Its Place in History. Indianapolis: Riebel-Roque, 1997.
Steiner, Max. Casablanca: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Los Angeles: Turner Classic Movies/Rhino Movie Music, 1997.
Verses omitted from "As Time Goes By"
by asighisjust, September 30, 2012
Recently I learned there are three verses to "As Time Goes By," omitted from the film music to Casablanca, sung by Dooley Wilson, and now accepted as standard. Rather than retype them here, readers can go to Wikipedia articles, (i) "As Time Goes By" and (ii) read also about the composer, Herman Hupfeld, NOT Max Steiner, who, purportedly did not like the song/verses in the first place. The complete lyrics make more sense for me now than previously, as lovely as they were/now are.
