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Casablanca, Poster for the Film
Bill Gold
1942
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Brooklyn-born Bill Gold designed some of the best-known movie posters of the twentieth century. Trained at the Pratt Institute, in 1941 Gold was hired by Warner Bros. to work in the poster department of its New York office. After World War II, during which he made training films for the army, Gold returned to Warner Bros., this time in Los Angeles. He eventually started his own advertising firm. Gold designed the iconic poster for Casablanca at age twenty-one, his first assignment. The film interrogates the isolationist stance that prevailed in the United States prior to its involvement in World War II while also constructing a distinctly American figure in Bogart’s character Rick; it remains an American classic.
This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior…
Praise the Lord; for He is good,
His steadfast love is eternal.
Praise the God of gods,
His steadfast love is eternal.
Praise the Lord of lords,
His steadfast love is eternal;
Who alone works…