"CASABLANCA" 1942 - DUŻO WODY UPŁYNĘŁO W SEKWANIE

"As Time Goes By" was written by lifelong bachelor Herman Hupfeld and debuted in the 1931 Broadway musical, 'Everybody's Welcome', sung by Frances Williams.
The film is #2 on the American Film Institute's (AFI) 100 Years . . . 100 Songs list. It had been a personal favorite of playwright Murray Burnett, who co-authored the play ('Everybody Comes to Rick's') upon which the film was based, who, seven years later, had visited Vienna just after the Nazis had entered. Later, after visiting a café in south France where a black pianist had entertained a mixed crowd of Nazis, French citizens and foreign refugees, Burnett was inspired to write the melodrama "Everybody Comes to Rick's", which was optioned for production by Martin Gabel and Carly Wharton, and later on Warner Bros. Pictures.
After the film's release, the song stayed on radio's "Hit Parade" for 21 weeks.
However, because of the coincidental musicians' union recording ban, the 1931 Rudy Vallee version became the smash hit (it contains the rarely-sung introductory verse, not heard in the film).
Max Steiner, in a 1943 interview, admitted that the song "must have had something to attract so much attention".

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Muzykę do „Casablanki” skomponował Max Steiner, najbardziej znany z tematu „Przeminęło z wiatrem”.

„As Time Goes By” Hermana Hupfelda było częścią oryginalnej sztuki;
Steiner chciał skomponować własną kompozycję, ale Bergman obcięła już włosy do następnej roli (María w "Komu biją dzwony") więc nie przekręcono scen.