[Ads-l] Play it again, Sam

[Bill Mullins]

In Fred Shapiro's article about misquotations in the Yale Alumni Magazine (May/Jun 2016), he mentions that the  earliest he's been able to find the "Play it again, Sam" version of the quote from Casablanca was January 19, 1954.  

_San Francisco Chronicle_ 12 Aug 1943 p 6 col 2
"Dooley "Play It Again, Sam" Wilson of "Casablanca" fame has a stellar role in "Stormy Weather," the musical cavalcade at the Paramount."

Bill Mullins
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