It is Casablanca,
made by Warner Brothers in 1942, starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.
Below is a
bit of interesting writing related to Casablanca, a letter from comedian Groucho Marx to Warner Brothers.
Warner Bros had written Marx, warning him
not to proceed with his plan to make a movie called A Night in
Casablanca, as reported he was about to do. Here's the
response:
"Dear
Warner Brothers:
Apparently
there is more than one way of conquering a city and holding it as your
own. For example, up to the time that we contemplated making this
picture, I had no idea that the city of Casablanca belonged exclusively
to Warner Brothers. However, it was only a few days after our
announcement appeared that we received your long, ominous warning us not
use the name Casablanca.
It seems that in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, your
great-great-grandfather, while looking for a shortcut to the city of
Burbank, had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock
(which he later turned in for a hundred shares of the common), named it
Casablanca. . . .
You claim you own Casablanca and that no one else can use that name
without your permission. What about 'Warner Brothers'? Do you
own that, too? You probably have the right to use the name Warner,
but what about Brothers? Professionally, we were brothers long
before you were. We were touring the sticks as The Marx Brothers
when Vitaphone was still a gleam in the inventor's eye, and even before
us there had been other brothers--the Smith Brothers; the Brothers
Karamazov; Dan Brothers, an outfielder with Detroit; and 'Brother, Can
You Spare a Dime?' (this was originally Brothers, Can You Spare a Dime?'
but this was spreading a dime pretty thin, so they threw out one brother,
gave all the money to the other one and whittled it down to 'Brother, Can
You Spare a Dime?')
Now Jack,
how about you? Do you maintain that yours is an original
name? Well, it's not. it was used long before you were
born. Offhand, I can think of two Jacks--there was Jack of 'Jack of
the Beanstalk', and Jack the Ripper, who cut quite a figure in his day.
As for you, Harry, you probably sign your checks, sure in the belief that
you are the first Harry of all time and that all other Harrys are
imposters. I can think of two Harrys that preceded you. There
was Lighthouse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum who
lived on the corner of 93rd Street and Lexington Avenue. Unfortunately, Appelbaum wasn't too well known.
The last I heard of
him, he was selling neckties at Weber and Heilbroner. . . ."
