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	1943 Oscar Winners
		When screenwriter Howard Koch (AA) complained about some of the changes Curtiz made to the Casablanca script, Curtiz replied in his famous fractured English, "Don't worry what's logical.
		Casablanca, produced by Hal B. Wallis, directed by Michael Curtiz (AA), screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch (AA) based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
		I make it go so fast no one notices." But Curtiz also knew when to slow down, overruling Koch's objections and including the flashback scenes that show Rick (Humphrey Bogart, AAN) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) in love in Paris.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1943.htm

	Casablanca: Special Edition (1942)
		The latter category includes statements from Bergman’s daughter Pia Lindstrom, Rudy Behlmer, screenwriters Julius Epstein and Howard Koch, story editor Irene Lee Diamond, film historian Ronald Haver, playwright Murray Burnett, actor Dan Seymour, composer Henry Mancini, soundman Francis Scheid, and first assistant director Lee Katz.
		Murray Burnett, Joan Alison, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
		The show includes remarks from Alistair Cooke, writer/director Richard Brooks, screenwriter Julius Epstein, writer Budd Schulberg, director John Huston, actors Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman and Van Johnson, and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich.
	www.dvdmg.com /casablancase.shtml (2769 words)

	1943 Oscar Winners
		Casablanca, produced by Hal B. Wallis, directed by Michael Curtiz (AA), screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch (AA) based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
		The script was based on an unproduced play, and legend has it that screenwriter Koch was turning in pages each morning for scenes to be filmed that day.
		In spite of the problems, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards* and was a box office hit, getting unexpected publicity from the Allied landing in the real city of Casablanca in late 1942 and from the summit conference held there by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin a few months later.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1943.htm (1425 words)

	1943 Oscar Winners
		Casablanca, produced by Hal B. Wallis, directed by Michael Curtiz (AA), screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch (AA) based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
		The script was based on an unproduced play, and legend has it that screenwriter Koch was turning in pages each morning for scenes to be filmed that day.
		In spite of the problems, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards* and was a box office hit, getting unexpected publicity from the Allied landing in the real city of Casablanca in late 1942 and from the summit conference held there by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin a few months later.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1943.htm (1425 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Mission to Moscow : Plot
		Even so, screenwriter Howard Koch found it very difficult to get film work after the war because of his contributions to this "Pinko" project (conversely, Jack Warner pulled a Pontius Pilate, washing his hands of the matter by insisting that he was strongarmed into making the film).
		Seen objectively, Mission to Moscow is top-rank entertainment, superbly and excitingly assembled in the manner typical of Warners and director Michael Curtiz.
		Sent to Moscow by FDR as a means of finding out if Russia is a potentially trustworthy ally in case of war, Davies and his family are given the royal treatment by the Commissars, who display the social, technological, agricultural and artistic advances made under the Stalin regime.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/67472/plot.jhtml (1425 words)

	Films, audio-ETOL
		So much so, that the movie was cited years later by the House Un-American Activities Commission and was largely responsible for the screenwriter, Howard Koch being Blacklisted.
		Huozhe(1994) aka Lifetimes; Living; and, To Live Set in 40s China following the life of a gambler turned puppeteer over four decades.
		This is a movie where the ability of the director (Bertolucci) to depict reality made him show his hero-party, the PCI (exemplified in the main character Olmo), as the villain which stopped the revolution.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/film (2426 words)

	Film at the Skirball
		The film, based on the writings of former U.S. ambassador to Russia Joseph E. Davies, presents a positive view of Stalinist Russia—so much so that its screenwriter, Howard Koch, was later blacklisted as a pro-Communist writer.
		Greta Garbo plays Queen Christina of Sweden, whose affair with a Spanish Catholic emissary (John Gilbert) instead of her politically correct cousin leads to controversy in her Protestant homeland.
		Award-winning film directors and producers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey gave audiences a fresh look at Tammy Faye Baker and Monica Lewinsky in their cutting-edge and entertaining documentaries The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Monica in Black and White.
	www.skirball.org /program/marapr05/film.asp (2426 words)

	Granta: 'The Handbag Studio' by Thomas Keneally
		Hearing the Schindler tale from the lips of a survivor, Gosch was enthused and got together a team including the screenwriter Howard Koch, famous for his involvement in the screenplay of Casablanca and for having been blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
		Schindler was playing poker against the SS garrison of his factory-camp, and all the prisoners knew it.
		In the reasonable hope of prolonging Oskar's life, or imposing a more reasonable shape on it, Gosch wrote to him, 'I hope the fact that you have taken an apartment in Frankfurt does not mean that you are carrying on with too many women.
	www.granta.com /extracts/2135 (4810 words)

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