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Lot Details
Lot 171
[CASABLANCA] Rick's Cafe chair from set of Casablanca.
[Los Angeles: Warner Brothers, circa 1942]. Bamboo and wicker chair. The chair frame bottom with hand production markings: "445/1/20" and "BS7416". Height 34 inches. Accompanied by a certificate (see below) and a framed photograph of Sam singing in Rick's Cafe. Some breaks and losses.
Provenance: Profiles in History, Hollywood Auction 62, 21 December 2013, lot 210, and with their certificate; that catalogue stating the chair was purchased from Cinema Mercantile in 1983.
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" - A cafe chair from the set of one of the best movies of the 20th century. Rick's Cafe is at the center of the action for much of Casablanca, which starred Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund and Dooley Wilson as Sam. The film was released in 1942 and was awarded Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay at that year's Oscars.
C Estate of Richard Schilling
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