Co-writer, with Murray Burnett, of "Everybody Comes to Rick's", a play sold to the Warner Brothers studio that became the basis of "Casablanca" (WB, 1942). Alison and Burnett were each paid one-off fees of $10,000 for rights to the first filming of the play, and received on-screen credit only for subsequent productions of "Casablanca" through ensuing years.
I'm in the process of dying. Maybe this week. Maybe next. The thing
that sustains me a great deal is the Jeopardy! (1984) show, when I can yell out
more answers than the contestants. [1989 interview; she died in 1992,
aged 90]