Sabrina DVD

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great old school movie if you like tear jerkers.
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 Classic Hollwood Romantic Comedy
The plotline is completely unbelievable BUT this will still pullat your heart strings and make you smile. Audrey Hepburn is winsome, Holden is charming and Bogart is Bogart. Escapism at it's best and very enjoyable.
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 The original and best!
The later re-make of this classic (with Julia Ormond / Harrison Ford / Greg Kinnear) comes close...maybe VERY close. Still, Audrey Hepburn always brought that special combination of innocence, charm, and wit that can't be duplicated. (That goes for pretty much anything she starred in.) This was one of the movies that helped keep Humphrey Bogart from being type-cast as the wise-cracking tough guy, and gave him a chance to shine as a gentleman and a person of character (while still being vulnerable to human weakness). And how can you fault William Holden's performance, for that matter? A treasure of American Cinema, and highly recommended.
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 Sabrina
My sister has been looking every where for the original SABRINA with Audrey Hepburn. I was so amazed when I came upon VIDEO UNIVERSE, I am not sure how I did it, but it may have been thru Amazon. Any way I am saving it for a Christmas present, if I can hold off that long, I am so anxious to see how thrilled she will be with it. Now I know where to come to look for videos. My sister is a collector of videos, so I am sure we will run across some more for me to look up. Thanks again, I am really pleased, Betty
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 A Cinderella story with sparkle and wit and sophistication.
Acquiring Samuel Taylor's hit Broadway comedy "Sabrina Fair" for the movies, Billy Wilder cast the title role with Audrey Hepburn as the Long Island chauffeur's daughter, who ages from nineteen to twenty-one during the film, the title of which was abbreviated (except in Britain) to a mere "Sabrina". The twenty-four-year-old Hepburn's leading men were William Holden (thirty-six) as her employer's irresponsible "young" playboy son and Humphrey Bogart (fifty-five) as his soberly work-oriented older brother. Wilder had intended the latter role for Cary Grant (forty-nine), who declined to play a "stuffy businessman," so Bogart was a last minute replacement. Playwright Samuel Taylor collaborated with Wilder and Ernest Lehman on this adaptation of Taylor's play, which lost some subsidiary characters and gained others. And it was "opened up" to allow for the Parisian sequence where Sabrina grows from awkward teenager to a chic, sophisticated twenty-one, as she studies French cooking. "Sabrina" uses the Cinderella theme of Taylor's long-running Broadway comedy. It's a Hollywood picture--wealthy characters, Long Island estate, Wall Street associations, Rolls Royce and Paris gowns. Wilder takes Taylor's play and spreads it out over the rich, luxurious area that was only suggested on the stage, thereby adding a great deal of atmosphere to it and endowing it with credibility. Slick wisecracks abound, and Wilder gleefully lets his audience know the outcome long before his screen characters perceive it. This is really Audrey's picture, since she has the title role and has come to it trailing her triumph from the previous year's "Roman Holiday". And indeed, she is wonderful in it--an actress of extraordinary range of sensitive and moving expressions within such a frail and slender frame. She is even more luminous as the daughter and pet of the servants' hall than she was as a princess. "Sabrina" is pure pleasure. "Sabrina" was a commercial hit. Paramount Studios shrewdly capitalized on the fact that the film boasted a total of four Oscar winners--Bogart for "The African Queen," Hepburn for "Roman Holiday," Holden for Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17," and even Billy himself for "The Lost Weekend". The director, finally, was getting to be a kind of star. "Sabrina" was Billy Wilder's last film for Paramount--a good-bye present that brought in enough money to make up for the previous excursion into the lower depths of "Ace in the Hole" (1951). [filmfactsman]
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