Casablanca remained very successful throughout the rest of the 1970s.

The only black people on the Casablanca set, Wilson and Carpenter became and remained friends.

In 1976 Guber merged his company Filmworks with Casablanca Records, headed by Neil Bogart, to formed Casablanca Record and Filmworks, Inc. Guber became Chairman while Bogart remained President of the combined company.

Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port.

The Port of Casablanca is one of the largest artificial ports in the world, and the largest port of North Africa.

Casablanca was an important strategic port during World War II and hosted the Casablanca Conference in 1943, in which Churchill and Roosevelt discussed the progress of the war.

The only watercourse in Casablanca is Oued Bouskoura, a small seasonal creek that until 1912 reached the Atlantic Ocean near the actual port.

Almost the entire Casablanca waterfront is under development, mainly the construction of huge entertainment centres between the port and Hassan II Mosque, the Anfa Resort project near the business, entertainment and living centre of Megarama, the shopping and entertainment complex of Morocco Mall, as well as a complete renovation of the coastal walkway.

Some historians believe the Roman frontier reached actual Casablanca, founded by Romans as a port.

Roman control reached the area of Casablanca, then called Anfa according to Leo Africanus: it was used as a port by the Phoenicians and later the Romans.

The 2008-2012 investment plan aims to invest $ 16. 3 billion and will contribute to major projects such as the combined port and industrial complex of the Tanger-Med and the construction of a high-speed train between Tangier and Casablanca.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

The Americans surrounded the port of Casablanca by 10 November, and the city surrendered an hour before the final assault was due to take place.

Mohammedia (, Al-Muḥammadia, Berber: El Muḥemmadiya, Fḍala ) is a port city on the west coast of Morocco between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Greater Casablanca.

In the meantime the murder of Europeans at Casablanca had led to the occupation of that port by France.

* Mohammedia, a port city located 15 miles northeast of Casablanca in western Morocco

Some historians, like Leo Africanus, believe the Roman frontier reached Casablanca, founded by the Romans as a port.

This supporting mission was the American capture of the French port of Safi in French Morocco on the morning of 8 November 1942 as part of a larger operation to capture Casablanca in Morocco.

Legally speaking, Moroccans consider Anfa to be a prefecture ( a district ) with half a million city dwellers, and thus a part of Grand Casablanca.

As Portugal broke the ties with the Spanish king in 1640, Casablanca came under fully Portuguese control once again.

The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

The movie has many similarities with Casablanca – the same enemies, the same kind of hero, even a piano player sidekick ( this time Hoagy Carmichael ).

The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.

Morocco riots overrun Casablanca due to discontent with French rule.

Economic growth is far more diversified, with new service and industrial poles, like Casablanca and Tangier, developing.

Potential speed gains are large, with travel time from Casablanca to Marrakesh down from 3 hours to 1: 20, and from the capital Rabat to Tangier from 4: 30 to 1: 30.

Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong ( 1933 ), Little Women ( 1933 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

In 1993 she started Courir pour le plaisir, a 5km run for women in Casablanca that has since become the biggest women ’ s race held in a Muslim country, with up to 30, 000 entrants.

In 1989, it joined with the rest of the Arab world in readmitting Egypt to the 19th Arab League Summit at Casablanca.

Thomas After Casablanca made Bogart one of the studio's top stars, Bogart found his relationship with Jack Warner deteriorating.

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an " operita ", María de Buenos Aires, that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano / narrator bar-room scena straight out of Casablanca.

Ebert has provided DVD audio commentaries for several films, including Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Dark City, Floating Weeds, Crumb, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ( for which Ebert also wrote the screenplay, based on a story that he co-wrote with Russ Meyer ).

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

The 2004 census recorded a population of 2, 949, 805 in the prefecture of Casablanca and 3, 631, 061 in the region of Grand Casablanca.

The population of Grand Casablanca was estimated in 2005 at 3. 85 million.

Fes-al-Bali, a medina of Fes, Morocco, with its population of 156, 000, may be the world's largest contiguous completely carfree area, and the medinas of Cairo, Casablanca, Meknes, Essaouira, and Tangier are quite extensive.

As of 2004, Marrakech had an aging population of about 260 Jews, most over the age of 60, while Casablanca has between 3, 000 to 4, 000 Jews.

Toll-revenues of this road, including the Casablanca bypass, totaled 219 million dirhams, reaching 3rd spot of top earners