Murray Burnett
writer, high school teacher
Born: 1911
He co-wrote (with Joan Alison) Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced play that was bought by Warner Brothers for the unprecedented sum of $20,000 and used as the basis for the movie Casablanca (1942). The play was finally brought to the stage in 1991.
Died: 9/23/1997 See also:
