🎥 🍿Sabrina (1954) Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Billy Wilder IMDb RATING 7.6/10 71K

• The film began a lifelong association between costume designer Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn.
• Humphrey Bogart was very unhappy during the filming, convinced that he was totally wrong for this kind of film, mad at not being Billy Wilder's first choice, and not liking William Holden or Wilder. But Wilder's offbeat casting produced a performance that critics generally considered successful. Bogart later apologized to Wilder for his behavior on-set, citing problems in his personal life.
• Humphrey Bogart did not get along with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. He nicknamed Holden "Smiling Jim", and said that Hepburn was quite untalented and could not act.
• William Holden and Audrey Hepburn had just won Best Actor and Best Actress at the previous Academy Awards for Stalag 17 (1953) and Roman Holiday (1953) respectively.
• Both Raymond Bailey and Nancy Culp of the Beverly Hillbillies appear in this movie but not in the same scenes.
• The film began a lifelong association between costume designer Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn.
• Although Hubert de Givenchy provided Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe, Edith Head won an Oscar for Best Costumes, as Givenchy is uncredited. Head, as the film's official costume designer, was given credit for the costumes, although the Academy's votes were obviously for Hepburn's attire. Head did not refuse the Oscar. 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.