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Girls, who you would have chosen?


Between Bogart's character or Holden's character, not the actor but character?

I would say all the same William's character ;) cuz he's more gentleman, more confident and more elegant. Was it William Holden???


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Bogart :)

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Linus absolutely. David was a careless playboy.

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LINUS

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I'd rather have William Holden. but I understand they originally wanted Cary Grant for the Bogart role - now if he'd been in it Holden wouldn't have stood a chance.

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Linus. When I was younger, I thought David was hot, but on rewatch, he comes off as sleazy and a snob. He would have ruined her reputation without a second thought and moved on to the next girl once he tired of her. He was exactly the male version of those "giggling girls" she hated so much.

Linus, on the other hand, was kind and actually took time to get to know her. He didn't see her as beneath him or his family, just because she was the chauffeur's daughter. He even told his snobby father repeatedly early on that if it weren't for the merger, he couldn't care less if she and David ran off together. I think he was the white knight she was looking for, ever since he'd saved her life in the garage, but she was too hung up on her fantasies about David to notice at first.

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I would kill for the Harrison Ford version of Linus, if he were 10-15 years younger (rather than a man in his 40's-50's). In the '95 version of Sabrina, he was a lot like David in this movie- cool, confident, funny, bumbling at times, but without the playboy angle.

Oddly enough, Ford and Bogart were about the same age when they played Linus, but Ford comes across as much younger, but I guess that's natural since Bogart was having issues with Cancer at the time.

It's funny, usually I find Holden to be very attractive, but for some reason he was just very repellent to me in this movie. It was probably the blonde hair and him acting like some overgrown teenager when he was clearly an adult man in his mid 30's. 

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no, Bogey was not having "issues with cancer at the time"--His esophageal cancer wasn't discovered til 1956(Greer Garson told him to go to a doctor cuz of his death cough)and he died a year later

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no, Bogey was not having "issues with cancer at the time"--His esophageal cancer wasn't discovered til 1956(Greer Garson told him to go to a doctor cuz of his death cough)and he died a year later


The fact that he died a year after it was discovered he had cancer shows that he was, in fact, having issues with cancer at the time this movie was made whether he knew he had cancer or not. He certainly wouldn't have been feeling very well at the time to say the least.

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