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Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was a cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse. [1] [2] She had a small role in the classic film Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing "Tango Delle Rose" and "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain.
In terms of popularity at the time, the song was a modest hit. The song was reintroduced in the 1942 film Casablanca, where it was sung by Sam, portrayed by Dooley Wilson. Sam's piano accompaniment was played by a studio pianist, Jean Vincent Plummer; Wilson was a drummer. [6] [7] [8] The melody is heard throughout the film as a leitmotif. [9]
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 ...
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (April 3, 1886 – May 30, 1953) was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered for his portrayal of Sam in the 1942 film Casablanca. In that romantic drama, he performs its theme song "As Time Goes By". Wilson was a drummer and singer [1] who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London ...
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. Courtesy of MGM, Lebeau helped entertain the troops at Camp Roberts, California in 1943, starring in The Desert Song.
A famous line in Casablanca, 43rd on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes "We'll Always Have Paris" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a 1988 television episode; I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir, by Art Buchwald (1995) "We'll Always Have Paris", a 1996 song by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies off the album Kids on the Street
In February 1991, Everybody Comes to Rick's was produced by David Kelsey at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent - advertised as both Rick's Bar in Casablanca and Everybody Comes to Rick's Bar in Casablanca. In April it transferred to the West End, running at the Whitehall Theatre for six weeks under the simplified title Rick's Bar Casablanca.
Knock on Wood" is a song written by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl for the film Casablanca, where it was performed onscreen by Dooley Wilson to music played by pianist Elliot Carpenter. [1] Commissioned by producer Hal B. Wallis, the song is the movie's only original composition. [2] [3]