Program Details

A Video From the OLLI Archives: Inside Casablanca: Scenes From Behind the Silver Screen

Instructor
Kurt F. Stone
SUM7263
Video Catch-up
Available

Course Description

OLLI breaks into their Archives to bring you one of their most popular video documentaries! Kurt Stone, D.D. shares interesting behind the scenes information about the making of the film Casablanca, including little known facts about specific scenes, production codes and the actors, diversity, politics, world events and the timing of the movie, characters and personalities, the Academy Award, the TV series, and more. PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATION- NO INSTRUCTOR PRESENT

About the Instructor

  • FAU's "Hollywood Brat," Dr. Kurt F. Stone is now in his 26th year with Lifelong Learning. A man who wears many, many hats (medical ethicist, best-selling author, essayist, historian, blogger and ordained rabbi), Kurt is the recent recipient of the "Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award" by "Who's Who in America." His intense love and knowledge of film is, as he has long said, "is the best part of my genetic make-up."

    Recipient of the 2004 Excellence in Teaching Award