Sabrina

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sabrina, 1954.

Introduction and comments following Sabrina, 1954, with Ben Mankiewicz and TCM Backlot Guest Programmer Sabrina Milkan.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sabrina, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sabrina, 1954.

Guest host Madeleine Stowe introduces Sabrina, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sabrina, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Sabrina, 1954.

Writer-director Billy Wilder executes one of his signature openings in the voice of his title character (Audrey Hepburn), who along the way introduces the leading men (Humphrey Bogart and William Holden as Linus and David Larrabee), in Sabrina, 1954.

Linus (Humphrey Bogart) is demo-ing the family corporation’s new plastic when he learns that brother David (William Holden), now enamored with Audrey Hepburn (title character), the chauffeur’s daughter, invited to her first party after two years schooling in Paris, has abandoned his fiancée (Martha Hyer), in Sabrina, 1954.

The teen title character (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of the chauffeur to a North Shore dynasty, is about to gas herself in the garage because the younger heir cares nothing for her, when the elder, Linus (Humphrey Bogart), intervenes, early in Sabrina, 1954.

You’d never guess William Holden and Humphrey Bogart (as filthy-rich corporation-owning brothers David and Linus Larrabee) were not on friendly terms, here tangling over the latter’s plan to marry-off the former, in Billy Wilder’s Sabrina, 1954.

Now stylish and sophisticated after two years at school in Paris, Audrey Hepburn (title character), daughter of the chauffeur to the Long Island Larrabees, is not recognized by womanizing David (William Holden), whom she’s loved since childhood, in Billy Wilder’s Sabrina, 1954.

Chauffeur Fairchild (John Williams) reads a letter from his daughter (Audrey Hepburn, title character), sent to cooking school in France to separate her from carefree heir David (William Holden), then drives the responsible brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart), in Sabrina, 1954.

When a wealthy playboy falls in love with his chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) his staid older brother pretends to pursue her himself in Sabrina (1954).