https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMvGeKtvoqA
This is apparently the original play, on which the movie Casablanca was based, but only in part.
I never knew until tonight.
http://vincasa.com/Screenplay-Everybody_Comes_to_Rick's.pdf
In reviewing the way this picture was actually made,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMvGeKtvoqA
one can only say something like that it turned out one of the most brilliant and complex works of true desperate improvisation (not the fake kinds) one can think of.
Listen to Run, Rabbit, Run, (1939) referred to in the original play, this song said to be Churchill's favorite song, for moments during the Battle of Britain Blitz attacks. This song, and the Negro piano player's antics, did not make it into the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1SX8r5y1qw
It seems probable that Luis Rinaldo, later cast with Claude Rains, as white French Captain Louis Reynard, was originally written as a sort of Spanish or Italian moorish mulatto, described in the play as "dark" and very handsome.
This post is dedicated to Randy Fertel, who is working on a different version of his scholarly work on improvisation.
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