Casablanca

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Casablanca, released in 1942 during World War II, was filmed almost entirely on the Warner Bros. studio lot, with production ending just as the actual Allied invasion of North Africa, on which the film's setting was loosely based, was making international headlines — a coincidence of timing that boosted the film's contemporary relevance and box-office success. The film's screenplay went through extensive last-minute rewrites during production, and the film's famously ambiguous, bittersweet ending — in which Humphrey Bogart's character sends Ingrid Bergman's character away with another man for the greater wartime cause — was reportedly still being finalized even as filming was underway. Casablanca's dialogue produced some of the most quoted lines in film history, including "Here's looking at you, kid" and "We'll always have Paris," phrases that have become permanently embedded in American popular culture well beyond audiences who've actually seen the film itself. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and its combination of wartime romance, political intrigue, and a genuinely bittersweet rather than conventionally happy ending has made it one of the most enduringly beloved and frequently revisited films of Hollywood's studio era.

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