Casablanca Movie Poster Tin Sign

Vintage Casablanca movie poster tin sign with holes for mounting. Casablanca: of all the classic Hollywood films, it's one of the best-known and most enduring. Originally the film was slated for release in early 1943, but the film premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City on November 26, 1942. The publicity people moved it forward to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa and the capture of Casablanca.The film then went into wide release on January 23, 1943, to coincide with the Casablanca Conference, a high-level meeting between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca. Many of the actors had first-hand experiences of the war and of Nazi brutality. Canadian connection: John Qualen, who played Berger — Laszlo's resistance contact — was a Canadian, born in Vancouver and raised in both Vancouver and rural Illinois.322g 42.5 x 30 cm