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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