Flashback Feels: ‘Casablanca’ Celebrates 80th Anniversary

it's time for flashback. Last week was lucy but this week I feel like it's an older one. All the way back to 1943 today guys to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of the most quotable movies of all time. Hit it again. Sam casa blanca City of Hope and Despair. Located in french Morocco in North Africa, the meeting place of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, refugees lured into this danger swept oasis by the hope of escape to the Americas but they're all trapped for there is no escape Against this fascinating background. Has woven the story of an imperishable love and the enthralling saga of six desperate people. Oh that was the trailer isn't that weird? Yes, believe it or not. That's what movie trailers looked like and sounded like 80 years ago. So that was the original theatrical trailer for Casablanca that played in theaters leading up to the film's. Yes, such an event. And Casablanca first hit theaters all the way back in january 23rd, 1943. Here in the U. S. The romantic war drama was filmed and even set during World War Two and it focuses on an american expat named rick Blaine played by Humphrey Bogart who lives in the french Moroccan city of you guessed it, Casablanca. Well the film follows his struggle to decide whether or not to help his former love played by Ingrid Bergman and her fugitive husband. This is the attempt to flee Casablanca and escape the Nazis and there are several memorable lines for the iconic film and many still quoted to this day where I'm going. You can't follow what I've got to do. You can't be any part of I'm no good at being noble. But it doesn't take much to see that. The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. No, no. Is looking at you kid. Ah there you go. You're looking at you kid. One of the most iconic lines in the history of cinema. That's right. And the films other famous lines include we'll always have paris Kiss me as if it were the last time. Play it again. Sam and of course the classic last line. It might be a good idea for you to disappear from Casablanca for a while. There's a free french garrison over at Brazzaville. I could be induced to arrange a passage, my Letter of Transit, I could use a trip. It doesn't make any difference about our bet. You still owe me 10,000 francs and that 10,000 francs should pay our expenses, our expenses louis. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Now. Today Jordan Casablanca is considered one of the greatest films of all time. But no one would have ever believed that at the time. That's because the production got off to a really bumpy start to put it politely and its stars were anything but confident in this film. When filming started, the script was only half finished and Bogart and Bergman were both uncertain about their roles in the film, Bogart's concerns were understandable. That's considering he had never even played a romantic lead before. My gosh, surprise, surprise. Well of course, Casablanca went on to be a massive success, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, best director and best adapted screenplay. Bogart was also nominated for Best Actor, his first ever Oscar Nom. And in 1989 the Library Congress selected the movie as one of the first for preservation in the national film registry. And in 2007, Casablanca ranked third on the American Film Institute's 100 best movies of the last 100. And they even moved the date of the, of the movie to coincide when that's right. When F. D. R. Was in Casablanca, which was amazing.