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2 unusual facts about Everybody Comes to Rick's


Everybody Comes to Rick's

Koch and the Epsteins received an Academy Award for best screenplay in 1943, but little recognition was given to Burnett and Alison.

Warner Brothers gave the script for adaptation first to screenwriter Casey Robinson, who worked on the romantic pairing of Rick and Ilse; twin-brother screenwriters Julius and Philip Epstein, who worked on the overall structure and dialogue; and screenwriter Howard Koch, who worked on the politics.



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Philip G. Epstein

He had written it in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and Howard Koch as an adaptation of the unproduced play, Everybody Comes to Rick's, written by Murray Bennett and Joan Alison.