Daily Dialogue — December 11, 2010

“Here’s looking at you, kid.”

 — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942), screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is five words or less — maximum impact, minimum words — suggested by CWillGoWrite. Casablanca suggested by Nuff McGreevey.

Trivia: The script was based on the unproduced play “Everybody Comes to Rick’s”. Samuel Marx of MGM wanted to offer authors (Murray Burnett and Joan Alison) $5,000 for it, but MGM boss Louis B. Mayer refused; Irene Lee of the Warner Brothers story department praised it to Jack L. Warner, who agreed to buy it for $20,000.

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