{"id":30403,"date":"2012-12-17T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=30403"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:18:23","slug":"casablanca-piano-auction-sale-for-602500-30403","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/casablanca-piano-auction-sale-for-602500-30403\/","title":{"rendered":"Casablanca piano auction sale for only $602,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30404\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30404\" title=\"Casablanca-Piano-auctioned-sothebys-nationalturk-0455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca-Piano-auctioned-sothebys-nationalturk-0455-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"In Casablanca , a Hollywood classic, the character Sam (Wilson) plays the signature song \u201cAs Time Goes By\u201d on the piano that is now sold \" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca-Piano-auctioned-sothebys-nationalturk-0455-280x220.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca-Piano-auctioned-sothebys-nationalturk-0455.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Casablanca , a Hollywood classic, the character Sam (Wilson) plays the signature song \u201cAs Time Goes By\u201d on the piano that is now sold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>The piano used in movie classic \u2018Casablanca\u2019 has been sold for over $600,000 at a Sotheby auction.<\/h1>\n<p>New York \/ NationalTurk &#8211; A piano used in the classic film \u201cCasablanca\u201d sold for just over $600,000 , falling far short of predictions that it could be sold for $1 million or even more.<\/p>\n<h2>Chepear than water !<\/h2>\n<p>The 58-key upright piano on which actor and singer Dooley Wilson performed \u201cAs Time Goes By,\u201d the signature song of the 1942 best film\u2019s star-crossed lovers played by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, sold at Sotheby\u2019s Auction House for only $602,500 including commission.<\/p>\n<p>The auction house had assigned the iconic prop a pre-sale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million, given some astonishing prices attained by movie memorabilia in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In Casablanca , a Hollywood classic, the character Sam (Wilson) plays the signature song \u201cAs Time Goes By\u201d on piano during flashback scenes set in Paris, as well as in Bogart\u2019s club in Casablanca, where he and Bergman rekindle their romance.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Bergman\u2019s memorable lines included the imploring: \u201cPlay it, Sam. Play \u2018As Time Goes By.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Japanese Collector to pay for Casablanca piano<\/h3>\n<p>Sotheby\u2019s had sold the piano, which was the one used during the Paris flashback scenes, to a Japanese collector in 1988, who paid $154,000, one of the highest prices ever paid for a movie prop at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The film, set in Morocco during World War Two, won three Academy Awards including best picture, best writing and best director for Michael Curtiz.<\/p>\n<p>The Sotheby auction house did not identify the buyer, who could feed 10000 hunger deprived African children for this addition to his collection.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! 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