Plot
Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas (John Williams), and she has been in love with David Larrabee (William Holden) all her life. David is an oft-married, idle playboy, crazy for women, who has never noticed Sabrina, much to her and the household staff's dismay. Distraught, she leaves her father a suicide note and tries to kill herself by carbon monoxide poisoning. She fails when David's workaholic older brother, Linus (Humphrey Bogart) intervenes.
Sabrina then attends culinary school in Paris called Mount Douglas, and after 2 years she returns home as an attractive and sophisticated woman. David, after initially not recognizing her, is quickly drawn to her.
Linus sees this and fears that David's imminent marriage to Elizabeth Tyson (Martha Hyer) may be endangered. If the engagement is broken, it would ruin a profitable opportunity on a great corporate merger between Larrabee Industries and Elizabeth's very wealthy father's business. Linus confronts David about his irresponsibility to the family, the business, and Elizabeth, but David is unrepentant.
Linus then tries to distract Sabrina from David by drawing her affections to himself. He succeeds, but in the process falls in love with her, though he cannot admit this even to himself.
Linus reveals his maneuver to Sabrina, leaving her disillusioned about him and David. Sabrina agrees to leave and never come back, and Linus arranges for her to return to Paris by ship the next day.
The next 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 he schedules a meeting of the Larrabee board to announce this. However, David shows up at the meeting and declares that he's decided to marry Elizabeth after all. As a result, Linus finally recognizes his own feelings for Sabrina. He rushes off to join her on the ship, and they sail away together to Paris.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_(1954_film)
Cast
Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larrabee ハンフリー・ボガート
Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild オードリー・ヘップバーン
William Holden as David Larrabee ウィリアム・ホールデン
John Williams as Thomas Fairchild ジョン・ウィリアムズ
Academy Awards
Won
Best Costume Design
Nominated
Best Director (Billy Wilder)
Best Actress (Audrey Hepburn)
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Adapted Screenplay
1954年公開のビリ・ワイルダー監督の「麗しのサブリナ」。主演はハンフリー・ボガート、オードリー・ヘップバーン、ウィリアム・ホールデン。オードリーは前年に「ローマの休日」でアカデミー主演女優賞をばかりで、まだ新人の女優でした。
本作品はローマの休日に次ぐヒット作と言えるでしょう。
オードリー・ヘップバーンは多くの年上男優と共演しています。グレゴリー・ペック、ゲイリー・クーパー・フレッド、アステア、ハンフリー・ボガート、ウィリアム・ホールデン、ケーリー・グラント、ヘンリー・フォンダ、バート・ランカスター、ピーター・フィンチ、レックス・ハリソンらと多くの俳優と共演しています。いずれも10歳以上も年が離れています。
この映画中、ボガートがYes we have no bananasという曲を流しています。
この映画のための曲ではなくて、1922年フランク・シルヴァーとアーヴィング・コーンによって書かれました。ブラジルのバナナ不足によって書かれた曲とされています。ブロードウェイ・シアターのレヴュー「Make it Snappy」において使用されました。
明日は「フィラデルフィア物語」について書きます。
