Casablanca: As Time Goes By: 50th Anniversary Commemorative

I love the Book and I was so happy to get it on time and in wonderful condtion as well. I would buy form this seller again. Thank you Angela Miller

Casablanca: As Time Goes By [Fiftieth Anniversary Edition] I bought this book by mistake, probably late at night, meaning instead to buy something about the city, its history and its architecture. When it arrived and was not what I had wanted, I was initially disappointed, but ended up reading it from cover to cover, enoying every section. It is physically a very satisfying book to handle, with heavy, good quality paper. It is easy to read and the photos are wonderful. I have seen the film only once and it didn't make much of an impression on me (am I the only person in the world that it didn't?) yet, when I read this book, I began to understand why so many people think so highly of it. I can strongly recommend this book to film enthusiasts and any others who are drawn to the era.

This commemorative book, published in 1992, certainly does its job of commemorating the movie Casablanca. It's a slender book with tons of photos of the actors, sets, and posters from the movie, and packed with everything you seemingly would want to know about it. You find out about what led to Casablanca's production, its inspiration, how the actors were chosen, the history occurring at the time that helped it along, the quarrels on set, the difficulties with budget and timing, the process for coming up with the ending of the movie. You learn about the director's accent and odd way of speaking that sometimes confused everyone. (When he asked for a "poodle" and such a dog was brought, he angrily tried to clarify that what he wanted was a "puddle". ) You learn about Bogart's standoffishness to Ingrid Bergman, and Peter Lorre's continual playing of practical jokes on the cast. There's a bio about each actor, and how the movie affected his or her career, and a listing of movies that were intended copies or spinoffs. This is a great book if you love Casablanca, its actors, or want to know about moviemaking of that era.

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." Unrequittted love? No one knows it better than Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Paris, Casablanca, does it matter where love meets up again? Reality intrudes, and makes these two face facts. This is the ultimate love story of the century. What this world truly means. Unrequited love, and our responsibility to everyone else. "Fall in love all over again." And I always thought that quote was so corny. Until I saw this. Watch this. You'll really fall in love with Ingrid and Humphrey, and cry at their nobility and their own love. And what they'll do for love. See it. Understand it. There is nothing better.