Synopsis
Billy Wilder directs the lighthearted romantic comedy Sabrina, based on the play by Samuel A. Taylor. Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the simple, naïve daughter of a chauffeur, Thomas Fairchild (John Williams). They live on an estate with the wealthy Oliver Larrabee (Walter Hampden) and his two sons: workaholic older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) and fun-loving younger brother David (William Holden). Sabrina adores the charming David, but he thinks of her as just a kid. Her father sends her away to Paris for chef school, where she meets Baron St. Fontanel (Marcel Dalio), and she returns a worldly, sophisticated woman. David immediately falls for her, but he is already engaged to marry heiress Elizabeth Tyson (Martha Hyer). Sabrina wants to break up the wedding in order to finally catch the man of her dreams, while Linus fights to keep the marriage on in the interest of family business and Mr. Tyson's (Francis X. Bushman) fortune. In order to keep Sabrina away from David, Linus pretends to court her himself. In doing so, they eventually realize their true feelings for each another.
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Movie News
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"Sabrina" showdown
Looks like ABC and WB are fighting to see who can score the highest ratings with actress Melissa Joan Hart. ABC has scheduled to repeat the TV movie Sabrina Down Under on Friday, May 25, at 8 p.m., up against two back-to-back episodes of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch on the WB
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TV STUFF: 'Sabrina' Pulls a Trick
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 6, 2000 -- It's official: "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" has given the broomstick to ABC. The kid-friendly sitcom, starring Melissa Joan Hart, is bolting the alphabet for the kid-friendly climes of the WB, it was confirmed Wednesday.
The actually kinda-watchable "Sabrina" premiered on ABC in 1996. It leaves on its own terms -- and then some. Producers got a two-year deal from the WB. ABC was said to be "on the fence" about bringing the show back for a fifth season. The WB "Sabrina" is expected to air where the ABC "Sabrina" aired -- on Friday nights.
A FUN TIME TO BE HAD BY ALL: The off-Broadway hit "Wit," about a terminally ill doctor in the last stages of her terminal illness, will get the TV movie treatment via HBO, Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. Nichols will direct it, Thompson will star in it and HBO will air it. Shooting is scheduled to be
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TV STUFF: 'Witch' Way for 'Sabrina'?
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 4, 2000 -- And for her next trick, "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" will move to … the WB? Melissa Joan Hart Today's Daily Variety says ABC's hit comedy, starring Melissa Joan Hart as the title spell-caster, could be headed to the rival network next season.
The report says the show's makers rejected ABC's initial overtures to renew the series, balking at the offered money (a mere $1.3 million to $1.5 million per episode). The offer that's reputedly got their attention is one from the WB that would net them just $675,000 for each show but lock them into the schedule for two years.
"Sabrina" debuted on ABC in 1996. It's headed into its fifth season.
ABC wouldn't comment on the Variety report, saying only of "Sabrina": "It's still part of ABC's schedule."
Yeah, well, that much we had figured out.
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