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SABRINA (1954)
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Release date: September 22nd 1954
Audrey's character: Sabrina Fairchild
Genre: Drama/Romance
Runtime: 1 hr, 48 min
Summary:
The daughter of a chauffeur (Sabrina, played by
Hepburn) has
been
madly in
love
with the youngest
playboy son (David,
played by Holden)
of a Long
Island
society
family.
Never serious about the
young woman,
she dreams he will one day
fall madly in love with her. She moves to
Paris to become a chef, and returns to
Long
Island a changed woman on the outside. Inside, Sabrina is still madly in
love with David. When David invites her to a ball at the mansion, she is
delirious with delight. This affair, however, jeopardizes not only David's
impending marriage, but a business deal brokered by his older, responsible
brother (Linus, played by Bogart). An unfortunate "accident" lays David up for
several days, during which time Linus plans to woo Sabrina, only to entice her
to move back to Paris.
CAST
Linus Larrabee - Humphrey Bogart
Sabrina Fairchild - Audrey Hepburn
David Larrabee - William Holden
Oliver Larrabee - Walter Hampden
Thomas Fairchild - John Williams
Elizabeth Tyson - Martha Hyer
QUOTES
Thomas Fairchild: He's still David Larrabee, and you're still the
chauffeur's daughter. And you're still reaching for the moon.
Sabrina Fairchild: No, father. The moon is reaching for me.
Sabrina: Oh, but Paris isn't for changing planes, it's for changing your outlook!
For throwing open the windows and letting in... letting in la vie en rose.
Sabrina: You can't go walking up the Champs Elyses looking like a tourist undertaker!
And another thing, never a briefcase in Paris and never an umbrella. There's
a law.
Sabrina: I have learnt how to live... How to be In the world and Of the world,and
not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never never again run away
from life. Or from love, either...
TRIVIA
This was the second film in a row where Audrey
gets her hair cut as a symbol of maturity. The first was in Roman Holiday
(1953). It is also the first of four films in a row where she'd play a
character romantically linked with a man old enough to be her father.
Audrey and William Holden fell in love during the making of this film, but
Hepburn broke off the relationship on learning that Holden could not have
children.
During production Billy Wilder was continuously working on the script. One
day he asked Audrey to feign illness so he would have enough time to finish
the scene to be shot.
Hubert de Givenchy originally thought he would be providing wardrobe for
Katharine Hepburn, as he had never heard of Audrey Hepburn before they were
introduced.
Humphrey Bogart was a last minute replacement for Cary Grant. Bogart and
William Holden couldn't stand each other. Bogart disapproved of Audrey
Hepburn (he wanted his wife Lauren Bacall in the role), while Holden fell in
love with her. Bogart got $300000, Holden got $150000, and Hepburn only
$15000. Asked how he liked working with Hepburn, Bogart replied: "It's ok,
if you don't mind to make 20 takes."
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