Cinema Rialto

This guide to Cinema Rialto in Casablanca opens with Josephine Baker singing inside this red and white Art Deco hall in 1943, in the tense months after the Allied landings of Operation Torch. It steps back to the cinema's 1930 opening under architect Pierre Jabin, part of the Protectorate-era building boom, and to the later stage that drew Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, and Dizzy Gillespie. Look up at the stepped, curving facade Jabin drew nearly a century ago, still holding its line above a quiet marquee.