Howard Koch (1902-1995) was an Americanscreenwriter. He also wrote under the name Peter Howard. His work includes the radio dramaThe War of the Worlds (1938) and collaboration on the screenplay of Casablanca (1942). 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... Radio drama, which had its greatest popularity in the U. S. and in most other countries before the spread of television, depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story in her or his minds eye. It resembles reading, in some ways, more than... On October 30, 1938, as a Halloween special, Orson Welles performed a live radio adaptation of H. G. Wells classic novel The War of the Worlds, which famously frightened many in the audience into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. ... Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. ...
Wells, who first considered the show silly, was shaken by the panic he had unleashed and promised that he would never do anything like it again.
Later Wells attempted to claim authorship for the script, but it was written by HowardKoch, whose inside story of the whole episode, The Panic Broadcast; Portrait of An Event, appeared in 1970.
There's an introductory note by Ralph J. Gleason, a foreword by film critic Richard Brown, and an essay "The Making of Casablanca" by the late HowardKoch.
For example, Porter claims that Bogart worked undercover for Howard Hughes, procuring male escorts for the business tycoon.
He also charges that Bogart brought Jean Harlow to Mexico for a secret abortion (it was supposedly Hughes's baby).
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