Sarah Jilani

And what Julie did, he went out there alone, he rented a little bungalow in the valley, and he would write a treatment every single day.

Walt would get in his car, race out to Julie in the valley.

Julie would hand him the lines.

Walt would come back to the script conference in Burbank.

And they would say, Jerry, you're a genius.

There was a script reader and to her lasting credit, she's the one who noticed it and brought it to Warner.

I know that it was on December 8th of 41, the day after Pearl Harbor, that Warner signed it and they called for the Epstein's and it was underway.

Though the title needed work, the basic story outline was... A bitter and broken-hearted American starts to run a cafe in Casablanca.

And in the course of the film, he helps the man who got the woman who broke his heart escape to America with that woman that he could have reclaimed for himself but did not.

I mean, Ingrid Bergman, God, with that light on her at the end at the airport.

Has there ever been a more beautiful portrait of a woman in film?

Everybody at the studio was supposed to come in in the morning at 9 o'clock.

Julie and Phil would saunter in after lunch and Warner would have fits and he called them into his office and said, who do you think you are?

Bank presidents come into work at nine.

University presidents come in at nine.

What do you think you're doing?

And Julie or Phil said to him, fine, Jack, then have a bank president finish the script.

When they got back to Hollywood, Koch had also been working on it, and they basically tore up what he had done and just launched in.

Now, there were other people who contributed to it.

That line, is that my heart beating or the German guns?