Word: chauffer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the most damning criticism of Sabrina Fair is a brief recount of the plot. Sabrina Fairchild, daughter of the chauffer of the sophisticated Larrabee family, comes home from five years in Paris. After the French diplomatic whirl, living over a Long Island garage strikes her as a bit drab. When Sabrina finds an out by falling in love with a Larrabee son, there is the immense barrier of his wealth and her poverty. But not for long...
Tobin, Dever, Dever's brother, his chauffer, his secretary, and a CRIMSON reporter all huffed down the street to the Governor's big, shiny Cadillac. Tobin threw open the rear door, and said, "Step in Governor." But Dever replied, "Oh no, that's all right. Don't bother." Tobin's face turned white, and he blustered out, "But Governor aren't you coming to the Young Democrats meeting?" He imagined all his efforts to get the Governor out to Harvard rudely shattered. "You can't go now, we've been waiting for you at Littauer . . ." "But I always...
Once inside, everybody started talking at once. Dever's secretary asked the CRIMSON reporter what was going on, Tobin began making a speech, the CRIMSON reporter questioned the Governor's brother, and the chauffer told the Governor that he didn't have much time left. The only unruffled person in the car was Dever. As the car passed through the Square, Dever quietly noted that he "knew the father of that police-man on the corner...
...voice and never moves quickly. Yet his rugged features and stature, by the slightest change of movement, convey grief, irony, and happiness. This physical containment, especially in the scenes where he moves in "the other world" creates a breath-taking tension. The characters of Death (a women) and the chauffer enter this world they see one another in the rear-view mirror of the Rolls Royce in the same constrained manner...