This decade is the home of so many incredible movies that will be on the 100 best films for ages and 1954 is no different.  Marilyn is in with two more:  “River of No Return” and “There’s No Business like Show Business”.  Among the other musicals:  “Brigadoon”, “The Glenn Miller Story”, “White Christmas”, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”, and best of all “A Star Is Born”.

The Dramas on offer were equally great:  “Rear Window”, “On The Waterfront”, “Dial M For Murder”, “The Caine Mutiny”, “The High and The Mighty”, and “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” but the comedies and romances we some of the bet ever with:  “Carmen Jones”, “Three Coins In The Fountain”, “The Barefoot Contessa”, “Magnificent Obsession”, “The Last Time I Saw Paris”, and my favorite choice “Sabrina”.

They never should have attempted a remake because this version is simply perfect.   It stars an effervescent Audrey Hepburn in the title role with Humphry Bogart and William Holden vying for her attentions.  Courtesy of Wikipedia

Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family’s chauffeur , Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a three-times-married playboy who has never paid attention to Sabrina because to him she was still a child. Eavesdropping on a party at the Larrabee mansion, as she has often done before, Sabrina notices David enticing yet another woman. Distraught, she leaves her father a suicide note and starts every car in the garage so as to kill herself. Instead she is interrupted by David’s older brother, Linus, who escorts her back to her quarters above the garage… More

All in all a magnificent year.  Now to draw on Marilyn for something extra