Classic Academy Award Films Casablanca 1942 Casablanca was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected it to be anything other than one of the hundreds of ordinary pictures produced by Hollywood that year. Casablanca was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the

1.2M views · 40K reactions | Actor and author Tom Hanks shares the legendary backstory behind one of the most powerful scenes in CASABLANCA ('42) as he introduces the film tomorrow night with Ben Mankiewicz. Join us at 8pm ET as he shares some of his favorite films and discusses his new book: "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel." | Turner Classic Movies: TCM | Facebook