“How extravagant you are — throwing away women like that. Someday they may be rationed.”

This is the story of the making of the Bogart/Bergman film, Casablanca, but written in such a way as it draws a portrait of not just Hollywood but the United States in that place and time. It ain’t all pretty and some of it is poignant (the chapter on Hollywood refugees, many of whom were…

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