Sunday Afternoons at the Paradise

Sunday, January 25 @ 1:30 p.m. Purchase your tickets here!

Sabrina (1954)

Director: Billy Wilder.  Run Time: 113 min.  Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David’s attention, while falling in love with Linus.

Audrey Hepburn lights up the screen in this sparkling Cinderella story with a dash of Parisian flair. When the chauffeur’s daughter returns home transformed from shy girl to elegant sophisticate, she turns the heads – and hearts – of both Larrabee brothers (played by Humphrey Bogart and William Holden). Billy Wilder’s writing and direction brings wit, romance, and razor-sharp dialogue to this timeless classic. Sabrina is pure Hollywood magic, wrapped in Givenchy and glowing with charm.

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Midnight (1939)

Director: Mitchell Leisen.  Run Time: 94 min.  Starring: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Francis Lederer

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

Don’t let the title fool you – Midnight is a champagne-soaked screwball delight from start to finish, also co-written by Billy Wilder! Claudette Colbert shines as a down-on-her-luck showgirl who stumbles into high society thanks to a borrowed gown and a well-timed lie. Add a lovestruck taxi driver, a meddling aristocrat (John Barrymore), and a whirl of mistaken identities, and you’ve got a comedy that’s as sharp as it is stylish. A hidden gem from the golden age of Hollywood, this one deserves the spotlight.