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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 30 general entries.
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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
Sabrina
Fairchild. Sabrina's father chose her first name from a poem..."Sabrina Fair, listen where thou art sitting under the glassy, cool, translucent wave."
Louis. Louis taught Sabrina all about photography.
How Can I Remember. Sabrina asked David to request this song while they were dancing.
Eleven. "When I came to this country, I was alone--like Sabrina--I just weighed more."
"it always looks dirty". The colors Elizabeth's mother recommends are taupe and buff.
Vogue. "Welcome to Vogue, Sabrina, you speak no French, yes?"
"No."
"No!?"
"Yes, I mean, please could you repeat the question?"
the Tooth Fairy. "The world's only living heart donor."
Bojangles. Linus tells Sabrina this as they are dancing in the solarium.
Ron. At Linus' office:
David: "I need to talk to you."
Linus: "I'm in a meeting!"
David: "How often do I come here?!"
Linus: "You're right. Ron... Ron..."
At the beginning of the movie, which of the two Larrabee brothers is Sabrina in love with? | Sabrina
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David. David Larrabee is a playboy with no work ethic. He has been married several times, and does not seem overly concerned that he never shows up for his job. The actor William Holden plays David.
Sabrina's father works for the Larrabee family doing what job? | Sabrina
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He is their chauffeur. Sabrina's father drives Linus to work. David usually drives his own car or doesn't need a ride to work because he rarely goes.
The night before Sabrina is to leave for Paris, she tries to kill herself. How does she try to do it? | Sabrina
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By inhaling carbon monoxide from the Larrabees' cars. While the Larrabees are having a party, Sabrina hides in a tree to watch. She sees David with a woman he later sneaks away with. Sabrina follows them and is heartbroken, watching them dance together. She loves David but thinks that he will never feel the same, so she decides to kill herself. She first writes her father a suicide note, and then goes into the Larrabees' garage and turns on all the cars. Then she waits for the carbon monoxide to kill her.
Who stops Sabrina from killing herself? | Sabrina
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Linus. Linus is David's workaholic elder brother. He is dedicated to his business, and often has to remind his brother David that he has a job. Linus comes into the garage and finds Sabrina hiding under a car. He doesn't seem to realize what she is trying to do, because he tells her that a chauffeur's daughter should know better than to leave cars running in a closed garage.
Why does Sabrina travel to Paris? | Sabrina
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She is going to take a cooking class. Sabrina's mother was a cook and her father decides to send her to a cooking school. Her father also wants her to be away from David, because he knows how much she loves him. He is afraid she will have her heart broken. The actress Audrey Hepburn plays Sabrina.
When Sabrina returns from Paris, she is older, sophisticated and beautiful. David immediately falls for her and invites her to a family party, even though his new fiancee will be there. David tells Sabrina he wants to sneak away from the party with her and meet up where? | Sabrina
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At the tennis courts. When David tells Sabrina he wants to sneak away, she knows that he wants to meet at the tennis courts. She once saw him sneak away with another girl from a party, and that is where they met. Sabrina goes to the tennis courts, but David does not follow her because he sits on wine glasses and needs stitches. Linus meets her instead and they dance together.
David accidentally sits on two wine glasses and needs stitches in his rear end. Linus makes him a special hammock with a hole in the middle, so that David can lie down comfortably with his bottom sticking out of the hole. What is the hammock made of? | Sabrina
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plastic. David intended to spend time with Sabrina, but because he has to rest, Linus "volunteers" to do so. In reality Linus only wants to keep Sabrina away from David. He wants David to marry a woman whose family owns the second largest holdings of sugar cane in Puerto Rico. Linus uses the sugar cane to make plastic, the same plastic that he uses to make David's hammock. If David marries the daughter of this family, Linus will have a connection to the sugar cane, thus improving his business.
Who tells Sabrina that he once considered killing himself? | Sabrina
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Linus. When Linus and Sabrina are out sailing, Linus tells her that he once stood outside the balcony of his office for a few hours, thinking about whether or not he should jump. When Sabrina asks him why he did not, he says that it was because there were children playing on the sidewalk below. The actor Humphrey Bogart plays Linus.
Linus doesn't want David to marry Sabrina for business reasons. Linus cooks up a plan that will have Sabrina sailing away to Europe under the impression that he will be going with her. Where does Linus plan to send her? | Sabrina
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Paris. Sabrina keeps telling Linus how wonderful Paris is, so he pretends that he wants to travel there. Then he lets Sabrina believe that she will be going with him, when in fact he plans to stay behind and have her leave on her own.
At the end of the movie, which of the Larrabee brothers does Sabrina end up with? | Sabrina
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Linus. Linus tells David that he can be with Sabrina if he wants. Then he calls a meeting at his office, and plans to tell David's fiancee that David won't be marrying her. David shows up and convinces Linus to go after Sabrina. Linus jumps on a boat and catches up to Sabrina's ship which is already sailing away. He meets her on the deck and they embrace in the last scene.
At the beginning of the film, what song did David ask the orchestra to play, when he went to meet his date in the solarium? | Sabrina
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"How Can I Remember?". Sabrina often watched David from a tree overlooking the Larrabee’s parties. He would leave his date momentarily, instruct the orchestra to play "How Can I Remember?", and after he grabbed a bottle of champagne and two glasses, he would go to meet her in the solarium.
Which magazine did Sabrina work for in Paris? | Sabrina
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Vogue. Mr. Fairchild was grateful that Mrs. Larrabee got Sabrina a job in Paris, working as an assistant for "Vogue" magazine. Sabrina was aprehensive at first about moving, because she thought that David would forget her. Her father, on the other hand, hoped that if Sabrina moved away from home, she would forget David.
What was the name of the company that Larrabee Corporation wanted to merge with? | Sabrina
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Tyson Electronics. Linus wanted to merge with Tyson Electronics, as they had recently invented an indestructible flat screen TV. It was the hottest thing on Wall Street and could make them billions.
What did Linus get his mother Maude for her birthday? | Sabrina
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Portable fax machine. Linus seemed to think it was appropriate to get his mother a portable fax machine for her birthday as she was a busy business lady.
Sabrina picked up a skill in Paris. What was it? | Sabrina
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Photography. After spending lots of time with her new friend Louis, Sabrina found a passion for photography. Not only did Louis photograph Vogue's fashion sets, but when he roamed around Paris with Sabrina he also taught her how to take good pictures.
At the picnic Sabrina told Linus that people thought of him as the world's only living "what" donor? | Sabrina
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Heart. Linus seemed to be quite shocked to hear that people thought he was so heartless. It was simply because everyone who knew him thought he only cared about his business and his money.
Why did Sabrina’s father decide to become a chauffeur? | Sabrina
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To have time to read. Sabrina admitted to her father that she loved him the most for his love of reading.
Linus bought a plane ticket for Sabrina so that she would get out of David’s way. Where was she to go? | Sabrina
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Paris. Linus's plan to get David out of Sabrina's mind was working; she had fallen for Linus instead. Although at the end he was supposed to go to Paris with Sabrina, Linus decided to tell her his plan and let her go on her own. He thought it was better that she went on her own; especially seeing as he broke her heart.
When Sabrina went to say goodbye to David, what game was he playing on his own? | Sabrina
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Billiards. By the time Sabrina went to say goodbye to David, he was recuperating from his accident and playing a game of pool in the billiards room.
Before she left for Paris, Sabrina’s father confessed that he had some money saved. How much money did he own? | Sabrina
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A little over $2,000,000. Over the years Sabrina's father had copied Mr. Larrabee with his business transactions in the stock market. He told her whatever Mr. Larrabee bought he would buy and whatever Mr. Larrabee sold, he would sell.
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