Murray Burnett (1911 - September 23, 1997) was a high school teacher and playwright from New York City. Burnett and Joan Alison wrote the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's", which was the basis for the movie "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. In the summer of 1938, while on vacation from his job as English teacher at a vocational school, Murray and his wife Frances travelled to occupied Vienna to help Jewish relatives there, … Wikipedia
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