Sabrina

Ignore the critics who say this is one of Billy Wilder's minor works. It is a major movie, a masterpiece of romantic comedy, and it still looks as fresh as a daisy. Sabrina Fair is a Cinderella story about a chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) and two brothers, Humphrey Bogart as the workaholic zillionaire and William Holden as the playboy. Because Hepburn's infatuation with Holden is unwittingly wrecking a business deal, the cold-fish Bogart decides to divert her - with predictable results. For a film that is so funny, so sophisticated and so technically polished, it comes as a surprise to learn that the production was a difficult one. Bogart and Wilder didn't hit it off, and because the director was writing by night and shooting the next day, Hepburn conspired with him to create delays on the set so that Wilder could have more time. The performances are impeccable, with Hepburn radiant, Holden showing real star quality and Bogart perfectly cast against his tough-guy image so that his entry into a new age of innocence is all the more funny and all the more moving.