
This marked the first time a sitting US president had visited Africa and the first time a president had left America during a war. In January 1943, the same month that "Casablanca" went to wide release, a secret meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill took place in Casablanca, from the 14th to the 24th. Ben Affleck: Rafe McCawley Josh Hartnett: Danny Walker Kate Beckinsale: Evelyn Johnson Cuba Gooding, Jr. This change paid dividends thanks to a second attention-grabbing headline a few months later. The cast members of Pearl Harbor have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar. The Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor forces the US into World War II. Originally slated for a summer 1943 release, "Casablanca" instead premiered in time for Thanksgiving.

The time crunch escalated when Allied forces invaded Casablanca, in an event called Operation Torch, in November 1942. play them both evenly.' You see we didn't have an ending, so we didn't know what was going to happen!" Koch has admitted that when the shoot began, the script was unfinished: "Ingrid Bergman came to me and said, 'Which man should I love more. military response he declared: We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. While Wallis and director Michael Curtiz are believed to have contributed, three different writers are credited: Howard Koch and brothers Julius & Philip Epstein.

As a result, the script was cobbled together. To stay topical, the film needed a quick turnaround. Cast Ben Affleck Captain Rafe McCawley Josh Hartnett Captain Danny Walker Kate Beckinsale Nurse lieutenant Evelyn Johnson Cuba Gooding Jr.
