Casablanca was written deliberately responsive to 1941-12-07, as the script shows. Everybody Comes to Rick's was bought for a record amount by Hal Wallis (Aaron Blum Wolowicz) in 1942-01-12 and then totally rewritten by Julius and Philip Epstein.
La Belle Aurore is a real cafe in Cap Ferrat, France.
For althist fans, if Japan hadn't been tricked then another entry into the same war would've been supported by an entirely different rave film, maybe starring Ronald Reagan, or Donald Duck.
Casablanca was written deliberately responsive to 1941-12-07, as the script shows. Everybody Comes to Rick's was bought for a record amount by Hal Wallis (Aaron Blum Wolowicz) in 1942-01-12 and then totally rewritten by Julius and Philip Epstein.
La Belle Aurore is a real cafe in Cap Ferrat, France.
For althist fans, if Japan hadn't been tricked then another entry into the same war would've been supported by an entirely different rave film, maybe starring Ronald Reagan, or Donald Duck.