Fresh
Script is long on glibly quipping dialog, dropped with a seemingly casual air, and broadly played situations. The splendid trouping delivers them style. Leavening the chuckles are tugs at the heart.
Variety Staff, Variety
Sabrina
...the chauffeur's daughter who learned her stuff in Paris
1954 · 1h 53m · Approved
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Overview
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larrabee
- Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild
- William Holden as David Larrabee
- Walter Hampden as Oliver Larrabee
- John Williams as Thomas Fairchild
- Martha Hyer as Elizabeth Tyson
- Joan Vohs as Gretchen Van Horn
- Marcel Dalio as Baron St. Foritanel
- Marcel Hillaire as Professor
- Nella Walker as Maude Larrabee
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Wilder's tastelessness now seems his major artistic strength.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It's a Cinderella story that gets turned on its head, a satire about breaking down class and emotional barriers, and a confrontation between New World callousness and Old World humanity.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
Hampered by an unimaginative script ... nevertheless manages to be a thoroughly charming, delightfully romantic variation of the Cinderella story.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
It is a story as light as a feather and as old as yesterday's news, as transparent as a society column item and as smug as a foreign-made car. But Mr. Wilder...has made it into a commentary as crisp as a screed in a smart magazine.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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