History of Casablanca control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910. It was especially during the years of military governor Hubert Lyautey that Casablanca became Morocco's economic center and Africa's biggest harbour. The famous 1942 film "Casablanca" underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers, carried out without any reference to the local population, and with the film's vast cosmoplitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Czech and some other nationalities) including not a single Arab. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A terrorist
A Night in Casablanca in the works, and Groucho sent several open letters to Warner Bros. to get newspaper coverage. These letters were among those he donated to the Library of Congress, and he reprinted them in his book "The Groucho Letters," which he published in 1967. In the end, the matter died without legal action, and the storyline of the film was changed to be a send-up of the genre rather than "Casablanca" specifically. Warner Bros. now owns the distribution rights to this film via Castle Hill Productions. A Night in Casablanca A Night in Casablanca is a 1946 film starring the Marx