Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina
Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn
in "Sabrina"(1954, US)
↑ "Sabrina"(ⅲ)
↑ "Sabrina"(ⅱ)
@ Not to be confused with Sabrina (1995 film).
●Sabrina (Sabrina Fair in the United Kingdom) is a 1954 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's play Sabrina Fair. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden. This was Wilder's last film released by Paramount Pictures, ending a 12-year business relationship with Wilder and the company. The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002.[3]
●Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is an oft-married, idle playboy, crazy for women, who has never noticed Sabrina, much to her and the staff's dismay. Sabrina then attends culinary school in Paris and returns as an attractive and sophisticated woman.
David, after initially not recognizing her, is quickly drawn to her. David's workaholic older brother, Linus, sees this and fears that David's imminent wedding with a very wealthy woman, Elizabeth Tyson, may be endangered. If the wedding were to be canceled, so would a great corporate deal with the bride's family. So Linus tries to redirect Sabrina's affections, and in the process falls in love with her.
At the end Sabrina sets off for Paris on a ship, after Linus has told her to leave and never come back. The next day Linus has second thoughts and decides to call off his brother's wedding with Elizabeth and send David off on the ship to Paris with Sabrina. He calls a board meeting to announce his decision, but when it turns out that David has not boarded the ship, but instead intends to go through with the marriage, Linus realizes that he is in love with Sabrina. He manages to get on the ship, and the couple sails away together for Paris.
Cast
Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larrabee
Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild
William Holden as David Larrabee
John Williams as Thomas Fairchild, Sabrina's father
Storyline
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire with no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically employed in the family business but never showing up for work, spending all his time entertaining, and having been married and divorced three times. Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but whom David hardly notices till she goes away to Paris for two years and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds she's captured David's attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself also falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her. Written by Brian C. Madsen <bcmmovies@earthlink.net>
●A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur. But it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.
Director:
→ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047437/
→ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_(1954_film)
→ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_(1954_film)
↑ "Sabrina"(ⅰ)
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