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Auction History Result 2x959 CASABLANCA Czech program '40s Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Curtiz, rare! Date Sold 11/22/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Undated (from the late 1940s; from the first release of this movie in Czechoslovakia) Vintage Czech Movie Program (measures 6" x 8 1/4" [15 x 21 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Casablanca, the classic 1942 Michael Curtiz (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) anti-Nazi World War II (WWII) romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a play by Murray Burnett and June Alison"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; it is interesting to note that the movie was made while World War II was being fought, and at a point when it seemed very real that Germany might take over the entire world, and in that context, the strong emotions expressed throughout the movie are all the more poignant, given what was going on in the world at that time) starring Humphrey Bogart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Rick", Richard Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund), Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Captain Renault), Conrad Veidt (as Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (as Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (as Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (as Carl), Dooley Wilson (as Sam), Madeleine LeBeau (as Yvonne), Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha), John Qualen (as Berger), Marcel Dalio (as Emil, the croupier at the roulette wheel), Corinna Mura (as the cabaret singer who plays the guitar and sings "La Marseillaise"), Helmut Dantine (as the young man playing roulette), and Joy Page (as Dantine's girlfriend, who is willing to sleep with Rains) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that Czechoslovakian programs are quite rare. Except for the six Czechoslovakian programs that we are currently listing in separate auctions, we've only seen one before! It is especially interesting that this program is from a Hollywood movie, because very few such movies were distributed in Czechoslovakia before the Communist takeover, and likely incredibly few afterwards. Also, note that this movie was released in the late 1940s through the MPEA, which distributed movies in Germany, Japan, Austria, and Czechoslovakia right after World War II until 1950 (a lot of the people who went to those movies were U.S. servicemen stationed in those countries). Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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