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The piano that features in the classic 1940s film Casablanca has been sold for more than $600,000 at Sotheby’s auction in New York.

The upright piano appears in one of the film’s most iconic scenes, in which Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick utters the line: “Here’s looking at you, kid.”

It was sold to an unknown buyer at Sotheby’s in New York.

The piano had been offered for sale by its Japanese collector owner to mark the film’s 70th anniversary.

The piano that features in the classic 1940s film Casablanca has been sold for more than $600,000 at Sotheby’s auction in New York

The piano that features in the classic 1940s film Casablanca has been sold for more than $600,000 at Sotheby’s auction in New York

It was expected to sell for as much as $1.2 million. The owner originally paid about $154,000 for the piano at auction in the late 1980s.

It is used in the film by pianist Sam, played by Dooley Wilson, to play the song As Time Goes By during a key flashback scene set in a Paris bar.

Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, delivers the famous line as he and Ingrid Bergman’s character Ilsa Lund lean on the piano, toasting with glasses of champagne.

The piano’s sale marks the 70th anniversary of the Oscar-winning World War II classic, which is largely set in the Moroccan port city of Casablanca, then part of unoccupied French North Africa.

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Warner Bros. have launched a new eBook range called Inside The Script, which includes classic hits Ben Hur and Casablanca.

Available in the iBookstore for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and for the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the Inside The Script titles take classic movie scripts and expand them for the digital age.

Other movies in the Inside the Script series will include An American in Paris and North by Northwest.

The e-books include items such as the shooting script, production notes, storyboards and on-set photographs.

Warner Bros. have launched a new eBook range called Inside The Script, which includes classic hits Ben Hur and Casablanca

Warner Bros. have launched a new eBook range called Inside The Script, which includes classic hits Ben Hur and Casablanca

“Now we can give fans rarely seen details of how these stories came together,” said Thomas Gewecke, Warner Bros. president of digital distribution.

The Ben Hur e-book includes excerpts from Charlton Heston’s performance and shooting journals from the film sets.

An American in Paris features a reproduction of the tickets to the film’s Hollywood premiere from MGM make-up artist John Truwe.

Casablanca includes a telegram from producer Hal Wallis relating to his row with studio mogul Jack Warner, who beat Wallis to the stage to accept the film’s Oscar for best picture in 1944.

And Hitchcock’s North by Northwest includes costume sketches and composer Bernard Herrmann’s music notes.

 

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