Sabrina – 1954 – Audrey Hepburn

The Story … Sabrina

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, a three-times-married, non-working playboy, has never paid romantic attention to Sabrina. Since she has lived for years on the Larrabees’ Long Island, New York, estate with her father, to him, she is still a child.

Eavesdropping on a party at the mansion the night before she is to leave to attend the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, Sabrina watches, follows, and listens as David entices yet another woman into a dark and vacant indoor tennis court.

Distraught, she leaves her father a suicide note and then starts all eight cars in the closed garage in order to kill herself. She is passing out from the fumes when Linus, David’s older brother, opens the door, discovers her, and carries her back to her quarters above the garage when she does pass out.

After two years in Paris, Sabrina returns home an attractive, sophisticated woman. When her father is delayed from picking her up at the station, flirtatious David, passing by, offers her a lift without recognizing her. She accepts.

Once David realises who she is, he is quickly drawn to Sabrina and invites her to join him at a party at the mansion, and then later invites her to the indoor tennis court.

When Linus sees this, he fears that David’s imminent marriage to Elizabeth Tyson may be endangered. If that engagement were broken it would ruin a profitable opportunity for a great corporate merger between Larrabee Industries and Elizabeth’s very wealthy father’s business.

Instead of confronting David about his irresponsibility, Linus pretends to sympathize with him. Linus manipulates David to sit down on champagne glasses he has placed in his pockets, and David is incapacitated for a few days.

Linus now takes David’s place with Sabrina, on the pretext that “it’s all in the family”, and both fall in love, though neither will admit it. Linus’s plan is to pretend that he will accompany Sabrina back to Paris on an ocean liner but then not join her, getting her away from David, the family, and the now-threatened merger.

However, when Linus instead confesses these intentions to Sabrina, she is hurt but understands the logic of the tactic. She agrees to sail the next day to live in Paris, but without Linus’s offered money and other inducements.

The following morning Linus has second thoughts and decides to send David to Paris with Sabrina. This means calling off David’s wedding with Elizabeth and the big Tyson deal, and Linus schedules a meeting of the Larrabee board to announce this.

Instead, David enters the meeting room at the last minute and shows that he will marry Elizabeth after all. He also helps Linus recognize his own feelings for Sabrina by insulting her and letting Linus punch him in the face. Then, having already arranged a car and a tugboat to wait for Linus, David assists him to rush off and join Sabrina’s ship before it leaves the harbour.

Once this is accomplished, Linus seeks out Sabrina on board after providing an inside-joke hint that he is there, and they sail away together …

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Credits :

Directed by : Billy Wilder

Screenplay by : Billy Wilder, Ernest Lehman and Samuel A. Taylor

Based on : Sabrina Fair by Samuel A. Taylor

Produced by : Billy Wilder

Cinematography : Charles Lang

Edited by : Arthur P. Schmidt

Music b : Frederick Hollander

Production Company : Paramount Pictures

Distributed by : Paramount Pictures

Release Dates : September 3, 1954

Genre : #romance – #comedy – #love

Cast :

Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larrabee

Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild

William Holden as David Larrabee

Walter Hampden as Oliver Larrabee, Linus and David’s father

John Williams as Thomas Fairchild, Sabrina’s father

Martha Hyer as Elizabeth Tyson, David’s fiancée

Joan Vohs as Gretchen Van Horn

Marcel Dalio as Baron St. Fontanel

Marcel Hillaire as The Professor, Sabrina’s culinary instructor

Nella Walker as Maude Larrabee, Linus and David’s mother

Francis X. Bushman as Mr. Tyson, Elizabeth’s father

Ellen Corby as Miss McCardle, Linus’s secretary

Nancy Kulp, as Jenny, one of the Larrabees’ maids.

Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_(1954_film)

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