Sabrina (1954) | |
| Director(s) | Billy Wilder |
| Producer(s) | Billy Wilder |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Top Topics | Romance (Comic) |
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Sabrina Overview:
Sabrina (1954) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Billy Wilder.
The film was based on the play Sabrina Fair written by Samuel A. Taylor performed at the National Theatre, NY & Royale Theatre, NY from Nov 11, 1953 - Aug 21, 1954.
SYNOPSIS
This classic romance showcases Hepburn's grace and natural beauty. Hepburn, a chauffeur's daughter who lives over a mansion's garage, returns home from a French cooking school as a charming sophisticate. She had been sent away after losing her heart to her father's employer's playboy son (Holden). Upon Hepburn's homecoming, her new appearance and polish knock Holden off his feet. But Holden's brother, Bogart, a nose-to-the-grindstone businessman, has plans for Holden to marry a rival's daughter (Hyer) in a practical, if not romantic, merger. Bogart advises Hepburn to watch her heart, but then finds himself enchanted. Wilder's astringent dialogue and a sly performance from Bogart life this above the suds. Remade in 1995 by Sydney Pollack with Harrison Ford in the Bogart role.
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.Sabrina was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2002.
Academy Awards 1954 --- Ceremony Number 27 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actress | Audrey Hepburn | Nominated |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler; Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer | Nominated |
| Best Cinematography | Charles Lang, Jr. | Nominated |
| Best Costume Design | Edith Head | Won |
| Best Director | Billy Wilder | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman | Nominated |
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e20 – The Mephisto Waltz
on Apr 10, 2020 From The Stop ButtonSo, Luke Ford, who plays Lucifer this episode, looks a lot like Taylor Kitsch. Enough I thought they maybe paid for Kitsch. They didn?t, they got Ford. Who doesn?t seem to have voiced goat Satan in the previous episodes. Anyway. It?s the big finale, with Kiernan Shipka unintentionally letting Ford o... Read full article
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e19 – The Mandrake
on Apr 9, 2020 From The Stop ButtonThis episode gets off to a rough start wrapping up last episode?s cliffhanger?Sabrina and the gang discovering a shrine to her in the mines, which is at least hundreds of years old. Kevin Rodney Sullivan?s direction is peculiar in a bad way (unless there?s a good reason for it like they reshot all o... Read full article
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e18 – The Miracles of Sabrina Spellman
on Apr 8, 2020 From The Stop ButtonSo following Sabrina showing herself off as a possible messiah, Richard Coyle gets back to town with Miranda Otto?Otto?s totally Stepford Wives?and convinces his bosses she?s a heretic and they?re just going to have to kill her. Meanwhile, Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) is enjoying her new powers. She can... Read full article
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) s01e17 – The Missionaries
on Apr 7, 2020 From The Stop ButtonSo, actually, no, ?Chilling Adventures of Sabrina? apparently hasn?t hit the darkest hour or the point of no return yet because this episode just sort of shrugs at all the disastrous things gone wrong for Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) and her family. Cousin Ambrose (Chance Perdomo?who?s great this episod... Read full article
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Quotes from
Sabrina Fairchild: No self-respecting waitress would take dollars.
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 puts a romantic record on the phonograph]
Linus Larrabee: Sabrina.
Sabrina Fairchild: Yes?
Linus Larrabee: Do you mind if we turn this off?
Sabrina Fairchild: Why?
Linus Larrabee: [pained] Because.
Sabrina Fairchild: Don't you like it?
Linus Larrabee: I used to like it.
[Sabrina takes the record off]
Sabrina Fairchild: Certain songs bring back certain memories to me too. Did you love her?
Linus Larrabee: I'd rather not talk about it.
Sabrina Fairchild: I'm sorry.
Linus Larrabee: That's all right.
Sabrina Fairchild: It's so strange to think of you being touched by a woman. I always thought you walked alone.
Linus Larrabee: No man walks alone from choice.
Sabrina Fairchild: As a child I used to watch you, from the window over the garage. Coming and going, always wearing your black homburg and carrying a briefcase and an umbrella. I thought you could never belong to anyone. Never care for anyone.
Linus Larrabee: Oh yes, the cold businessman behind his marble desk, way up in his executive suite. No emotions, just ice water in his veins and ticker tape coming from his heart. And yet... one day that same cold businessman, high up in a skyscraper, opens a window, steps out on a ledge... stands there for three hours wondering... if he should jump.
Sabrina Fairchild: Because of her?
Linus Larrabee: No. No, that was another woman. Sabrina, do you find it hard to believe that someone might want to blot out everything for sentimental reasons?
Sabrina Fairchild: Oh I believe it! Do you know what I almost did for sentimental reasons? I...
[stops herself]
Sabrina Fairchild: I went to Paris to blot it out.
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Facts about
The estate on which the film was shot actually belonged to Paramount Pictures chairman Barney Balaban.
Many critics felt that Humphrey Bogart was miscast in the film, and that William Holden should have played Linus with a younger actor as David.
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