{"id":3939,"date":"2012-09-27T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2015-12-16T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:56:05","slug":"how-did-a-haircut-get-as-time-goes-by-into-casablanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2012\/09\/27\/how-did-a-haircut-get-as-time-goes-by-into-casablanca\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did a Haircut Get “As Time Goes By” Into Casablanca?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: “As Time Goes By” would have been removed from Casablance had it not been for a haircut. <\/p>\n

The song “As Time Goes By” was written by Herman Hupfeld. It first appeared in a Broadway musical titled Everybody’s Welcome in 1931. The show was not particularly successful, and the song was only moderately more successful than the show, getting recorded by a few artists. For the most part, though, the song came and went and was basically forgotten.<\/p>\n

Forgotten except for a fellow who was attending Cornell when the song came out. Murray Burnett thought that the song was excellent. So when he and Joan Allison co-wrote a play in 1940 about a bar in Casablanca named Everybody Comes to Rick’s, Burnett had the song be the song that their play’s two ill-fated lovers, Rick and Ilsa, listened to often when they spent their time together in Paris in love. <\/p>\n

Burnett and Allison were not able to get the play produced, so they sold the rights to the play to Warner Brothers, who turned it into the classic film, Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.<\/p>\n

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