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Sabrina(film, 1954) starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden

3/9/2020

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Sabrina(film, 1954) starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden
​Sabrina (Sabrina Fair/La Vie en Rose in the United Kingdom) is a 1954 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's 1953 play Sabrina Fair. The picture stars Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. This was Wilder's last film released by Paramount Pictures, ending a 12-year business relationship between Wilder and the company. The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002.

Plot

Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a three-times-married playboy who has never paid attention to Sabrina because to him she was still a child. Eavesdropping on a party at the Larrabee mansion, as she has often done before, Sabrina notices David enticing yet another woman. Distraught, she leaves her father a suicide note and starts every car in the garage so as to kill herself. Instead she is interrupted by David's older brother Linus, who escorts her back to her quarters above the garage.

Sabrina had been on the point of sailing for France, where she is to attend Le Cordon Bleu, the leading culinary school in Paris. After two years there, she returns home as an attractive and sophisticated woman. When her father is delayed from picking her up at the station, David offers her a lift instead without even knowing it is Sabrina.

Once David realizes who she is, he is quickly drawn to Sabrina and invites her to join him at a party at the mansion. When Linus sees this, he fears that David's imminent marriage to Elizabeth Tyson may be endangered. If the engagement is broken, it would ruin a profitable opportunity for a great corporate merger between Larrabee Industries and Elizabeth's very wealthy father's business. Instead of confronting David about his irresponsibility, Linus pretends to sympathize with him. In a moment of inattention, David sits down on champagne glasses he has placed in his pockets, so that he is incapacitated for a few days.

Linus now takes David's place with Sabrina on the pretext that “it’s all in the family” until both fall in love, although neither will admit it. In fact Linus’ plan is to pretend to be accompanying Sabrina back to Paris but not to join her on the liner. However, when he reveals his intention to Sabrina instead, she agrees to leave the next day and never come back.

The following 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. David enters the room at the last minute and declares that he has decided to marry Elizabeth after all. David helps Linus recognize his own feelings for Sabrina and assists him in rushing off to join Sabrina's ship before it leaves the harbor. Linus and Sabrina meet on board and sail away together.
Audrey Hepburn with William Holden in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with William Holden in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with William Holden in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with William Holden in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn with Humphrey Bogart in film Sabrina(1954)

Cast

Audrey Hepburn in film Sabrina(1954)
Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild

Audrey Hepburn in film Sabrina(1954)
Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larrabee

Audrey Hepburn in film Sabrina(1954)
William Holden as David Larrabee

Production

Sketches for skirt, blouse, and apron by Edith Head for Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina.
Sketches for skirt, blouse, and apron by Edith Head for Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina.
Initially, Cary Grant was considered for the role of Linus, but he declined, and the role was taken by Humphrey Bogart. Best known for playing tough detectives and adventurers, Bogart was cast against type as a smart businessman gradually transformed into a romantic lead.

During production of the film, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden entered into a brief but passionate and much-publicized love affair. Bogart had originally wanted his wife Lauren Bacall to be cast as Sabrina. He complained that Hepburn required too many takes to get her dialogue right and pointed out her inexperience.

Bogart was very unhappy during the filming, convinced that he was totally wrong for this kind of film, mad at not being Wilder's first choice, and not liking Holden or Wilder. 
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Wilder began shooting before the script was finished, and Ernest Lehman was writing all day to complete it. Eventually he would finish a scene in the morning, deliver it during lunch, and filming of it would begin in the afternoon.

Although Edith Head won an Oscar for Best Costumes, most of Hepburn's outfits are rumored to have been created by Hubert de Givenchy and chosen personally by the star. In a 1974 interview, Head stated that she was responsible for creating the dresses, with inspiration from some Givenchy designs that Hepburn liked, but that she made important changes, and the dresses were not by Givenchy. After Head's death, Givenchy stated that Sabrina's iconic black cocktail dress was produced at Paramount under Head's supervision but claimed it was his design.

The film began a lifelong association between Givenchy and Hepburn. 

The location used to portray the Larrabee family's mansion in Glen Cove, New York was 'Hill Grove', the home of George Lewis in Beverly Hills, California. This mansion was later demolished during the 1960s. The location used to portray the Glen Cove train station was the Glen Cove train station on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The building at 30 Broad Street in Manhattan's financial district was used as the location for the headquarters of the Larrabee company.
The film opened in New York and Los Angeles on September 23, 1954 and was number one at the US box office for two weeks.

In 1995
 Paramount Pictures remade the film.
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Seis Hermanas(Serie de TV, 2015-2017)/Six Sisters(tv serie, 2015-2017)

22/4/2020

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best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters
Year: 2015-2017
Writer: Ramón Campos/Gema R. Neira/Verónica Fernández/Adolfo Valor
Alberto Grondona
Director: Antonio Hernández/Miguel Conde/David Ulloa/Jaime Botella/Inma Torrente/Verónica Anciones
Music: Sergio Moure
​Costume design: María Jiménez del Monte/Elena de Lorenzo
Stars: Celia Freijeiro/María Castro/Mariona Tena/Marta Larralde/Candela Serrat/Carla Díaz/Álex Adróver/Álex Gadea/Fernando Andina/Cristóbal Suárez
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish

Historia

Seis hermanas fue una serie de televisión española producida por Televisión Española en colaboración con Bambú Producciones.

La serie está ambientada en el Madrid de 1913-1917 y cuenta la historia de las seis hermanas Silva:
  • Adela (Celia Freijeiro), la hermana mayor, pilar fundamental de las hermanas Silva, es una de las mujeres más elegantes y admiradas de la alta sociedad del momento; toma la mayoría de las decisiones, es correcta, generosa, cariñosa y bondadosa; viuda muy joven, cree que el amor no volverá a tocar a su puerta;
  • Blanca (Mariona Tena), es guapa, clasista, amable, elegante y educada, prometida con el rico banquero Rodolfo Loygorri (Fernando Andina), pero enamorada de su cuñado, el médico Cristóbal Loygorri(Álex Gadea);
  • Diana (Marta Larralde), de fuerte carácter, sustituye a su padre al frente de la fábrica de la familia Silva, es la hermana emprendedora, cree que se infravalora a la mujer y, aunque no cuenta con encontrar el amor de su vida, su destino tiene distintos planes para ella;
  • Francisca (María Castro), canta en secreto en el Cafe Ambigú pero su sueño es cantar para un público más selecto;
  • Celia (Candela Serrat), le encantan las letras, estudió magisterio y su sueño es seguir estudiando, escribir y conocer mundo. Más adelante descubre que siente un sentimiento de amor hacia su amiga obrera Petra;
  • Elisa (Carla Díaz), es la hermana pequeña, consentida, irascible e inmadura , sueña con encontrar un hombre de buena posición con el que pueda formar una familia. 
Las seis hermanas pasan de ser mujeres de clase alta sin ningún tipo de preocupación a dirigir la fábrica textil y los negocios de su padre, don Fernando Silva, después de la repentina muerte de éste, en una sociedad en la que las mujeres no tienen ni derecho a voto.
best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters

Story

Seis Hermanas (English: Six Sisters) is a Spanish soap opera with 489 episodes produced by Bambú Producciones for Televisión Española.

The series is set in the Madrid of 1913 and tells the story of the six sisters Silva of upper-class who try to save the factory of their father after his abrupt death:
  • Adela (Celia Freijeiro), the older sister, takes most of the decisions, generous, loving and kind;
  • Blanca (Mariona Tena) (She is classy and extremely kind, although after a serious illness changes drastically) she is engaged to Rodolfo Loygorri (Fernando Andina), but she is in love with her brother-in-law;
  • Diana, is the enterprising sister who believes that women are undervalued, and although she does not intend to find love, her destiny has different plans for her;
  • Francisca (Maria Castro), sings secretly in the Cafe Ambigú, but her dream is to become a lyric singer and sing Opera;
  • Celia (Candela Serrat), whose dream is to study and to write, later discovers that she has romantic feelings for her worker friend Petra (Carlota Olcina);  
  • Elisa (Carla Diaz), who is the little sister, is spoiled, irascible and bossy, and dreams of finding a man with whom she can form a family.
best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters

Personajes/Personages

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Adela Silva by Celia Freijeiro
Adela Silva
by Celia Freijeiro

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Blanca Silva by Mariona Tena
Blanca Silva, Baronesa de Loygorri, Dama de la Reina Victoria Eugenia de España
by Mariona Tena

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Diana Silva by Marta Larralde
Diana Silva, Diana Silva Torrealba de Montaner, Marquesa de Fuensanta
by Marta Larralde

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Francisca Silva by María Castro
Francisca Silva, Condesa de Barnos
by María Castro

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Celia Silva by Candela Serrat
Celia Silva
by Candela Serrat

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Elisa Silva by Carla Díaz
Elisa Silva
by Carla Díaz

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Salvador Montaner, Marqués de Fuensanta by Álex Adróver
Salvador Montaner, Marqués de Fuensanta
by Álex Adróver

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Cristóbal Manuel Loygorri del Amo​ by Álex Gadea
Cristóbal Manuel Loygorri del Amo​, Barón Consorte de Loygorri​
by Álex Gadea

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Rodolfo Loygorri del Amo, Ex-Barón Consorte de Loygorri​ by Fernando Andina
Rodolfo Loygorri del Amo, Ex-Barón Consorte de Loygorri​
by Fernando Andina

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Luis Civantos​ by Cristóbal Suárez
Luis Civantos​
by Cristóbal Suárez

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Enrique Gutiérrez​ by Pep Anton Muñoz
Enrique Gutiérrez​
by Pep Anton Muñoz

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters
Ricardo Silva Santos 
by Juan Ribó​

best Spanish tv serie Seis Hermanas(2015-2017)/Six Sisters Sofía Álvarez de Terán​ by Julia Molins
Sofía Álvarez de Terán​
by Julia Molins

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