Sabrina (1954)
Directed by Billy Wilder
After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.
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Watson has an Audrey Hepburn moment out of "Sabrina" when Hermione makes a late appearance at the ball in a violet dress showing a hint of cleavage.
Lehman had already written a romance where a girl of low station falls in love with a man higher up on the social ladder ("Sabrina," 1954), and he had two musicals under his belt: "The King and I" (1956) and "West Side Story" (1961).
With the help of Ernest Lehman (the pen behind such classic film stories as The King and I, the aforementioned West Side Story, Hello, Dolly!, Sabrina, North by Northwest and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Wise crafts a joyous celebration of life.
Wilder couldn't help fiddling with the script and brought in Lehman ("The King and I," "North By Northwest," "West Side Story," "The Sound of Music") to help touch it up.
…the nineteen-year-age gap is “child’s play” (if one will pardon the icky pun) compared to some other ones that Hollywood has paraded (e.g., The Big Sleep, Sabrina, Charade, As Good As It Gets, Entrapment, A Perfect Murder and anything directed by Woody Allen)…
It’s the good old American yarn (Road to Morocco, Sabrina, The Philadelphia Story) of a beautiful girl in the predicament of two beautiful boys…