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Movie reviews for: The Sword in the Stone, The Cardinal, and Charade

quotes: audrey hepburn movies

Name the Audrey Hepburn movie:

1. I've been trying to write her a poem, but I can't seem to finish it. What rhymes with "glass"?

2. Duval, please! I can't hear myself think, and I'm trying to think in French!

3. Please, monsieur, is the news good or bad?
That depends. Is this your wife?
It looks like her.
Then I regret to inform you that it looks bad.
Then there IS another man!
There is. And I regret to say that he looks good.

4. Do they still really have prizes in Cracker Jack boxes?
Oh yes.
That's nice to know... It gives one a feeling of solidarity, almost of continuity with the past, that sort of thing.

5. All right, get set for the story of my life.
Fiction or non-fiction?

6. Okay, you're the boss. Just do as I tell you.

7. Is this the elevator?
This is my ROOM!

roman holiday

the year: 1953

the genre: dramedy


the cast: Gregory Peck (Joe Bradley); Audrey Hepburn (Princess Ann); Eddie Albert (Irving Radovich)


the plot: Princess Anne embarks on a highly publicized tour of Europian capitals. When she and her royal entourage arrive in Rome, she begins to rebel against her restricted, regimented schedule. One night Anne sneaks out of her room, hops into the back of a delivery truck and escapes her luxurious confinement. However, a sedative she was forced to take earlier starts to take effect, and the princess is soon fast asleep on a public bench. She is found by Joe Bradley, an American newspaper reporter stationed in Rome. He takes her back to his apartment. The next morning Joe dashes off to cover the Princess Anne press conference, unaware that she is sleeping on his couch! Once he realizes his good fortune, Joe promises his editor an exclusive interview with the princess.



don't miss: the haircut.



listen for: "Is this the elevator?" "This is my ROOM!"



extra bonus points: if you know who was right in the argument Ann and Joe have over which poet wrote the words that Ann quotes, "Arethusa rose from her couch of snows in the Acroceraunian mountains."



did you know: I hate the ending to this movie. I know, I know - duty and honor and all that. Blech!



did you also know: the film was shot in black and white so that the characters wouldn't be upstaged by the setting of Rome.

love in the afternoon

the year: 1957

the genre: comedy


the cast: Gary Cooper (Frank Flannagan); Audrey Hepburn (Ariane Chavasse); Maurice Chevalier (Claude Chavasse); John McGiver (Monsieur X)


the plot: a middle-aged playboy is fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.



listen for: "Working on a new case?" "A client from Brussels. His wife ran away to Paris with the chauffeur. I have to find them; the husband wants his car back."


don't miss: they gypsy quartet. They're my favorite.



did you know: To dispel any impression that there was any impropriety in their many afternoon meetings in his hotel room, a line was dubbed into the release print. When his back is turned to the camera in Claude's office, Frank is heard to say, "I can't get to first base with her."



extra bonus points: if you can name the character "Monsieur X" plays in Man's Favorite Sport.


also listen for: "What does he export and what does he import?" "Oh, he uh - he exports perfume and imports bananas. There's a fortune in it. Do you realize that for one bottle of perfume you get twelve bananas?"

my fair lady

the year: 1964

the genre: musical


the cast: Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle); Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins); Stanley Holloway (Alfred P. Doolittle); Wilfrid Hyde-White (Colonel Hugh Pickering); Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Higgins); Jeremy Brett (Freddy Eynsford-Hill)



the plot: A chance meeting between two noted British linguists, Prof. Henry Higgins and Col. Hugh Pickering, leads to a wager that will test Higgins' skills. After they hear a cockney flower girl caterwaul in the street, Higgins proposes to transform the girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a refined Victorian lady with an aristocratic accent. After some hesitation Eliza agrees to become their test case.



don’t miss: Colonel Pickering’s conversation with Scotland Yard. “No, she's no relation, no. What? Well, just let's call her a "good friend", shall we? I beg your pardon! Listen to me, my man, I don't like the tenor of that question - what we do with her is our affair - your affair is bringing her back so we can continue doing it!”


listen for: “My aunt died of influenza … And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it, and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in. Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat pin, let alone a hat...Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it...Drank! My word! Something chronic!”



count: how many Ascot costumes Cecil Beaton designed.


did you know: In the scene where Eliza is practicing her "H's", she sits down in front of a spinning mirror attached to a flame. Every time she says her "H's" correctly, the flame jumps. If you look closely at the paper she is holding in her hand when it catches fire, you will see handwritten upon it the dialog that she and Professor Higgins have been saying previous to this. "Of course, you can't expect her to get it right the first time," is the first line written on the paper.




also listen for: “Well, I'm dashed!”


check out: Alfred P. Doolittle, Esquire.



extra bonus points: if you can name 4 other musicals that featured the music of Lerner & Loewe.

sabrina

the year: 1954

the genre: romance


the cast: Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina Fairchild); Humphrey Bogart (Linus Larabie); William Holden (David Larabie); Ellen Corby (Miss McCardle)


the plot: Sabrina is the daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David doesn’t know she exists. When Sabrina goes to Paris for a few years, she returns a very attractive and sophisticated woman, and David is quickly drawn to her. David's brother Linus sees this and fears that David's imminent wedding may be endangered. If the wedding is canceled, so is a corporate merger with the bride's father. So, Linus tries to keep Sabrina away from David, and the best way to do that is to charm her himself.


count: how many soufflés actually turn out like they should, in the cooking class.


don’t miss: what rhymes with “glass.”


check out: Joe College, with a touch of arthritis.


listen for: “Once upon a time, on the north shore of Long Island, some 30 miles from New York, there lived a small girl on a large estate. The estate was very large indeed and had many servants. There were gardeners to take care of the gardens, and a tree surgeon on a retainer. There was a boatman to take care of the boats: to put them in the water in the spring, and scrape their bottoms in the winter. There were specialists to take care of the grounds: the outdoor tennis court and the indoor tennis court, the outdoor swimming pool and the indoor swimming pool. And there was a man of no particular title who took care of a small pool in the garden for a goldfish named George.”


also listen for: “Voilà! An egg. Now, an egg is not a stone; it is not made of wood, it is a living thing. It has a heart. So when we crack it, we must not torment it. We must be merciful and execute it quickly, like with the guillotine.”


did you know: Although Edith Head won an Oscar for Best Costume on Sabrina, most of Audrey Hepburn's "Parisian" ensembles were, in fact, designed by Hubert de Givenchy and chosen by the star herself. However, since the costumes were actually made in Edith Head's Paramount Studios costume department, some felt that that was enough of a technicality to nominate Edith, instead of Monsieur Givenchy. Edith Head refused to be shown alongside Givenchy in the credits, so she was given credit for the costumes, even though the Academy's votes were obviously for Hepburn's attire.


extra bonus points: if you can name the two things one should never have in Paris.