Three more of his screenplays were made into movies prior to his being blacklisted: My Buddy (1944), Casbah (1948, starring Peter Lorre and Yvonne De Carlo), and No Minor Vices (1948, starring Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, and Louis Jordan).
In the 1957 Battle of Algiers, she and three companions including Ali Ammar (aka Ali La Pointe) were killed when French forces bombed their hideout in the Casbah.
The Bellerive, once a hotel on Armour Boulevard, gained notoriety after opening the Casbah Room, a lounge that attracted headliners such as Billie Holiday and Liberace.
(Incidentally, the word 'kasba', which means the same in Hindi and Bengali, also means the same as the Arabic 'casbah'. It is however, not recorded whether The Clash had South Calcutta in mind when they wrote 'Rock the Casbah'.)
Others speculate that the name came from "Algiers," a popular movie from 1938, first introducing many Americans to the Casbah, the center of the city Algeria, Algiers.
"Une blonde platine dans la casbah" is a French-language song by Biyouna from the dual language French-Arabic album Blonde dans la Casbah (Arabic: شــقــراء فـي الـقـصــبــة).