Excerpted from The Tunesmith: The Musical Journey of M.K. Jerome. In the beginning, and for many years afterward, Casablanca was just a movie. Those who were associated with the film (especially stars ...

When Charaf Tajer was a kid growing up in Paris, he and his friends would collect items from legacy French brands—Hermès, Cartier, Lacoste—and wear them to project their visions of themselves. “We ...

Sam is a Senior Writer for Collider. His love for movies, TV shows, and books stretches back to his early childhood and has grown exponentially with every passing year. Lucky for him, this love grew ...

The first thing a New York Times reader would have learned about Casablanca was that Humphrey Bogart would be replacing Ronald Reagan as the leading man. Reagan, it was reported, had been called up ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

Of all the classic Hollywood films, it's one of the best-known and most enduring — this week, Casablanca turns 75. Amazingly, the people involved thought it would be just another Hollywood flick, one ...

President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at the Allied Conference In Casablanca, January 1943. At the end of November 1942, Franklin Roosevelt suggested to Winston Churchill that a meeting ...