Play it, Sam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vThuwa5RZU#t=92
Casablanca - As Time Goes By - Original Song by Sam (Dooley Wilson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22CiKMPpaY
"As Time Goes By" - Casablanca - The Original Sam (Dooley Wilson) song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaAqze81y4Y
Casablanca won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Its lead character Humphrey Bogart, it's memorable line "Play it again Sam" and pervasive theme song "As Time Goes By" have all become iconic; and the film consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films of all time. And so this brings us to Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (April 3, 1886 -- May 30, 1953) an American actor and singer who is best remembered as the piano-player and singer "Sam" who sings "As Time Goes By" at the request of Ingrid Bergman in this Classic 1942 Film 'Casablanca' -- the Sam in the famously misremembered line "Play it again, Sam" -- is a phrase which was never actually spoken in the film. And so I have made it a point to intro this video with the actual film clip of the spoken line in the Movie - J.R.
Casablanca film locations
http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/c/Casablanca.html#.VHrnLxHLwih
Based on an unproduced play (Everybody Comes To Rick’s by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison), this confused production, with a script changing from day to day and no ending decided, was never likely to produce one of the great weepies of all time. Yet, finally, all the pieces fell into place perfectly.
Casablanca is almost entirely studio-bound, shot on Warners’ Burbank lot, and, with Jack Warner’s customary thrift, recycling sets from previous productions.
Eastern sets were rehashed from The Desert Song, while the railway station was leftover from the Bette Davis weepie Now Voyager. If you want to see the original plane from the movie, and you’re willing to suspend your disbelief, it’s rumoured that it’s included in the Casablanca tableau at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida, where audio-animatronics recreate ‘great scenes from the movies’.
You can see the large hanging lamps from Rick’s Bar in the Lighting Prop Shop and Sam’s (Dooley Wilson) surprisingly tiny piano on the Warner Bros VIP Studio Tour. The tour can be a bit unpredictable, according to filming schedules – this is definitely not like the Universal theme park – it really is an intimate and technical 21/4 hour tour of the determinedly lo-tech studio.
You can see locations from Spider-Man, Minority Report and Gremlins among many others, along with TV faves such as E.R. and The West Wing. There’s always the chance of glimpsing real filming (although television stuff is most likely). Numbers are limited, so book ahead. There’s also a DeLuxe tour, a couple of hours longer and including lunch in the studio commissary.
The famous farewell scene on the tarmac was filmed, not at an actual airport, but at Warner’s, on Stage 21 or Stage 1 – according to which version you believe.
There is one location to be visited, though. The arrival of Captain Strasser (the splendidly nasty Conrad Veidt) was filmed at the old Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys near Burbank.
The site has since been incorporated into Van Nuys Airport, 6590 Hayvenhurst Avenue, occupying the area between Woodley Avenue to the east, Balboa Boulevard to the west, and Roscoe Boulevard and Vanowen Street. The art deco control tower has been demolished but, until recently, you could have seen one of the old hangars from the movie.
When the airport was realigned, the two hangars were no longer contained within the terminal boundaries. Used as engineering workshops, they could be found on Waterman Drive, a tiny private street running west from Woodley Avenue between Daily Drive and Lindbergh Street, to the northeast of the airport lot. One hangar was demolished some years ago, but the other survived. Sadly, this final trace of Casablanca – which stood on the south side of the slight bend in the drive – has now also disappeared.
It seems, though, that the façade of this last hangar was dismantled and put into storage, and there are plans for it to be restored one day. Let’s hope.
• Many thanks to Alanna Hill for help with this section.
Dooley Wilson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dooley_Wilson
Dooley Wilson: As Time Goes By - Casablanca sountrack 1942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qp7aq6adr8
Composed in 1931 by Herman Hupfeld, the song only became a hit when sang in the movie.
Herman Hupfeld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hupfeld
Herman Hupfeld (February 1, 1894 – June 8, 1951) was an American songwriter whose most notable composition was "As Time Goes By."
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Hupfeld was sent to study violin in Germany at age 9. Returning to the United States he served in the military during World War I, and he entertained camps and hospitals during World War II. He never wrote a whole Broadway score, but he became known as a composer who could write a song to fit a specific scene within a Broadway show.
"As Time Goes By" is most famous from the film Casablanca (1942), although it was originally written for the Broadway show Everybody's Welcome (1931), which ran for 139 performances. In 1931, the song was a modest hit, with versions issued on Victor, Columbia, Brunswick and the dime store labels. The song was featured in the unproduced play Everybody Comes To Rick's, which was the basis for the Casablanca story and script.
photos
https://www.google.hr/search?q=Herman+Hupfeld&client=opera&hs=tzN&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Cu16VLXNA-TTygOZuYGgBA&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=931&bih=600
The Montclair residence of "As Time Goes By" composer Herman Hupfeld hums with artistic activity
http://www.northjersey.com/community-news/a-house-hums-an-artistic-melody-1.366007?page=all