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Casablanca had realized that even though The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was immensely popular, the show did not carry over well to recordings. [2] By mid-1975, Casablanca was almost bankrupt, and desperately needed a commercial breakthrough if they were to survive. [3] That breakthrough came in an unlikely form: a double live album Alive!
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of ...
Following Casablanca, Lebeau appeared in two further American films.The first was a large role in the war drama Paris After Dark (1943), with her former husband. The following year, Lebeau had a smaller role in Music for Millions.
If you ate French on Friday night at Royal Mansour, switch tonight to Moroccan, or vice versa. Casablanca isn’t a big drinking city, but the hotel’s 1950s-inspired jewel box, The Bar, is ...
The album was dedicated to the memory of Casablanca founder and early Kiss supporter Neil Bogart, [3] who had died of cancer during the recording sessions. It is also the band's last album recorded with Ace Frehley credited as an official member and their first album with Vinnie Vincent , as the initially uncredited lead guitarist .
Casablanca's financial fortunes changed with the success of KISS Alive, the band's 1975 live recording, which stayed on the charts for 110 weeks and has sold nine million copies. [5] The label changed names to Casablanca Records and Filmworks and successfully branched out into film with movies such as The Deep and Midnight Express. [3]
"I still haven't really thought about that. I've been more worried about finding a place to sleep each night since then," he told CBS News. "So I've been working, really."
Formed by Larry Blackmon in 1974 as the New York City Players [1] the band was signed by Casablanca Records to its Chocolate City imprint in 1975 as the Players. However, according to original band member Nathan Leftenant, the group soon changed its name after the threat of legal action by Mercury Records due to the name "the Players" being too similar to Ohio Players, who recorded for Mercury ...