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Sabrina Fair [VHS] [1954]

VHS ~ Humphrey Bogart
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Audrey Hepburn is the delightful, young, eponymous Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture--and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of great dialogue ("A woman happy in love, she burns the soufflé; a woman unhappy in love, she forgets to turn on the oven") and wonderful performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece. Also enjoyable is the 1995 remake, starring Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford. --Jenny Brown


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For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard.

Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance.

Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday.

The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden.

On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. --Nikki Disney

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars La Vie En Rose, 19 Sep 2003
This review is from: Sabrina [DVD] [1954] (DVD)
A Long Island Chauffeurs daughter is desperately in love with the youngest son of the family her father works for. Sent away to Paris for two years (partly to learn how to cook, and partly to cure her infatuation), she returns with a sophisticated new look, and finds that he is now infatuated with her.

As is clear from the above outline, and from the very beginning of the film which starts with the line "Once upon a time there was a little girl...." this film is basically a fairy tale in which Hepburn's Cinderella gets to choose between the two sons of the fabulously wealthy Larrabee family. It features a wonderful cast - William Holden excels as the charming playboy David Larrabee (the original object of Sabrina's affections), and Bogart, somewhat cast against type as a romantic lead, shows a deft touch for comedy as older brother Linus, who attempts to disentangle his brother from Sabrina only to find himself falling for her too.

This is a tale which could easily become mawkish, but is kept from doing so by witty dialogue and wonderful physical comedy (Linus manipulating his brother into sitting down on a champagne glass, and then providing him with a hammock with a strategic hole cut out is my favourite, but there are many such moments). But this is Hepburn's film, and she is magnificent. Her transformation from gawky teenager to sophisticated young woman is entirely convincing, and she never looked lovelier.

Forget Pretty Woman, forget Maid in Manhatten, this film did it first and it did it better. Get a big bar of chocolate, unplug the phone, and sit back and enjoy the most beautiful face ever captured on film.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Good Cop Bad Cop of Romance and Passion, 22 Oct 2001
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This review is from: Sabrina [DVD] [1954] (DVD)
A heartwarming visual feast of the upstairs/downstairs variety! A wonderful film that keeps you gripped and runs the gamut of human emotions: Sabrina's virtures contrasted with the snobbery of her own Father; Linus's commitment to work set against Brother David's frivolity; all taking place within a setting that allows for love to be ruled by society and parental ambition. Sabrina shines through with the class that Audrey Hepburn alone can bring, and, in the end you might just warm to Humphrey Bogart!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A boxset with 4 of the best films of Audrey Hepburn, 11 Nov 2001
This review is from: Audrey Hepburn [DVD] [1953] (DVD)
This DVD boxset contains four of the best movies with Audrey Hepburn.
The all time favourite classic Breakfast at Tiffany's directed by Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, 10, The Pink Panther series, The Party) where Audrey plays Holy an eccentric New York City playgirl trying to find a man to get married to (that must be rich too!!) who meets Fred, (who later proves to be Paul - George Peppard) and he becomes her next-door neighbour. Paul is a writer who is sponsored by a wealthy lady (Patricia Neal). Audrey Hepburn is wonderful in this movie. I enjoyed watching her performance and her character. Both interested me, but I was caught up in the character the first time I saw it. There are a lot of humorous scenes in the movie. One hilarious scene is when Hepburn gets drunk. She does a great job and deserves the Oscar nomination that she got. The music of the film is been written by Henry Mancini and he really deserves the Oscar that he got for the song moon river in that film.
The Funny Face, a very sweet film a rather slight '50s musical that gets by on the charm of stars Fred Astaire and Audrey, the songs of George and Ira Gershwin and the romantic setting. Unfortunately it's a bit weak in the story department: Maggie Prescot (Kay Thompson) is editor of Quality magazine, the fashion oracle for American women. She's looking for a new type of women to embody all that the magazine is about and with her fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), they're off to the most musty used bookstore they can find to make their air-headed model look intelligent. While doing a shoot in a Greenwich Village bookstore, he encounters mousy clerk Jo Stockton (Hepburn) and is instantly struck by her offbeat beauty and brains. She is the face he's been looking for.
The next one is Sabrina: along with Audrey, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden are in the leading roles. This was Audrey Hepburn's second American film: coming off her Best Actress Oscar winning debut in Roman Holiday. The film was nominated for six Oscars, including another Best Actress for Hepburn. Sabrina Fairchild (Hepburn) is the daughter of the chauffeur for the Larrabee family, and has grown up in the shadow of opulence and grandeur. She grew up watching the two Larrabee brothers grow up: the older Linus (Bogart), whose keen sense of business has kept him constantly expanding the industrial empire, and the younger David (Holden), a playboy that seems to find and discard women. Sabrina has secretly pined away for David her whole life hoping only for the day he'll notice her. Before that time could come, her father sends her to Paris to a gourmet cooking school, hoping she will follow in her mother's footsteps. When she returns two years later, she has been transformed into a sophisticated and beautiful woman, who gains David's eye without a moment of trouble. No trouble, except for the fact he's already engaged to a woman whose family will promote a multi-million dollar merger with the Larrabees. This gets Linus involved, as he tries to stop the romance before it can ruin the business deal. But the focused and driven Linus is also charmed by the beautiful girl.
The film simply sparkles with the chemistry between all the characters. Well written, brilliantly directed, and powerful performances each contribute to a whole that transcends the years, and is one of the best films of its genre ever to be released.
Finally we have Paris when it Sizzles which is a romantic comedy that spends most of its time lampooning the creative process of making a motion picture. This movie about making a bad movie has moments of brilliance though it can become tiresome and all too predictable from the romantic angle. Richard Benson (William Holden) is a well known and well-paid Hollywood screenwriter, and has been paid a great deal in advance for his next script, a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately Benson has wasted the last 18 weeks he was given to write the script, and now has two days before his producer Alexander Meyerheim (Noel Coward) arrives at his Paris apartment for the finished work. In a panic, he hires Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn) as a typist. With time so short, he has to dictate the story off the top of his head, and Gabrielle types as he talks. The lines between the characters and the real life people blur, and the stories start merging together; as the couple in the film falls in love, the same thing seems to be happening inside the Paris apartment. Perhaps the funniest thing about the movie though is the blasé attitude it takes about what it takes to get a movie written. Only two days, after wasting 18 weeks? No problem for a seasoned professional screenwriter. We can whip out something thrilling and without a trace of substance in half that time. Makes you wonder how so many meaningless films actually get made. I really liked that movie and I must say that I rate it second after the Breakfast at Tiffany's in this boxset as Audrey looks absolutely gorgeous, sweet and so talented! Delightful plot, I love Audrey Hepburn!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast service
Very satisfied with service and quality. High quality DVD, good picture and sound. Fast delivery. Will definitely recommend seller.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Isn't it romantic?
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2.0 out of 5 stars Humphry Bogart maybe - but not at his best
A film I'd more likely describe as "pleasant" with a large dose of irony, this romantic comedy stars Humphry Bogart as the "love interest" to Audrey Hepburn's... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars delightful
Audrey hepburn makes a enchanting performance as the daughter of a chauffeur's daugter who fall's in love with a rich playboy, to wind up madly in love with his brother.
Published on 9 Mar 2000

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