Pay It Again, Sam: Casablanca Piano Sold on Film's 70th Anniversary

An anonymous buyers agreed to pay more than $600,000 for the piano used by Dooley Wilson in Casablanca.

Its keys are immortalized in cinema visuals. Now, the piano itself has changed hands.

The collector, who paid $154,000 a few decades ago, had offered it up for sale to mark the 70th anniversary of the release of the iconic film. Auction-watchers had expected a sale price of more than $1 million.

Wilson played Sam, the pianist who was a friend of bar owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart). Sam played the piano many times for both Sam and Ilsa Lund, Rick's now-and-again flame played Ingrid Bergman. Sam and his piano are instrumental in many scenes in the film, including the one in which Rick utters the famous line, "Here's looking at you, kid."

Just a bit of trivia, though. Hollywood lore to the contrary, Rick never utters the line "Play it again, Sam."