Casablanca (film) 14, 2012, at Sotheby's for more than $600,000 to an anonymous bidder. The piano Sam "plays" in Rick's Café Américain, put up for auction with other film memorabilia by Turner Classic Movies at Bonhams in New York in November 2014, sold for $3.4 million. Although an initial release date was anticipated for early 1943, the film premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City on November 26, 1942, to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa and the capture of Casablanca. It went into general release on January 23, 1943, to take advantage of the Casablanca Conference, a
Grand Casablanca Benslimane, Berrechid and Settat from the region of Chaouia-Ouardigha to form the new region of Casablanca-Settat. The region was bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and by the region of Chaouia-Ouardigha on the other three sides. The last wāli or governor of Greater Casablanca was Mohammed Kabbaj. The Wilaya of Greater Casablanca consisted of two prefectures and two provinces: Grand Casablanca Grand Casablanca or Greater Casablanca (Arabic: الدار البيضاء الكبرى; Amazigh: "Tamnaḍt Tameqqṛant n Anfa") was one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco that existed from 1997 to 2015. Located in coastal northwestern Morocco, it was the