Casablanca (film) misquotation. One of the lines most closely associated with the film—"Play it again, Sam"—is inaccurate. When Ilsa first enters the Café Americain, she spots Sam and asks him to "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake." After he feigns ignorance, she responds, "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'." Later that night, alone with Sam, Rick says, "You played it for her, you can play it for me," and "If she can stand it, I can! Play it!" Rick's toast to Ilsa, "Here's looking at you, kid", used four times, was not written into the draft screenplays, but
Casablanca (1955 TV series) represented 14 of the 20 productions. The series was based on "Everybody Comes to Rick's", a play written in 1940 by American authors Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, and the celebrated 1941 film version, "Casablanca". It starred Charles McGraw as Rick Blaine, the character played in the film by Humphrey Bogart. After the 7-episode "Kings Row", it was the second-least-successful among Orr's twenty ABC series, canceled after the production of only ten episodes. Director John Peyser has attributed the failure to studio head Jack L. Warner's refusal to finalize the hiring of charismatic rising star Anthony Quinn to play Rick