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Casablanca In Cambridge

Davis Dunavin
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WSHU
A mural on the back wall of the screening room in the Brattle Theatre. The mural once stood in the nearby Casablanca restaurant.

The enduring legacy of Humphrey Bogart – and his most famous film – is deeply entwined with the story of a one-room theater not far from Harvard Square.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.