Sabrina Fair
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Sabrina Fair (also titled Sabrina Fair, A Woman Of The World) is an original Broadway stage play. A romantic comedy, it is set on the North Shore of Long Island approximately one hour from New York. The play was written by Samuel Taylor and originally directed by H.C. Potter.
It ran for a total of 318 performances. It ran at the National Theatre from November 1953 to May 1954, then it moved to the Royale Theatre from May to August 1954. This play is the basis for both the 1954 movie and the 1995 remake.
The chauffeur's beautiful and poised daughter is Sabrina Fairchild. She has a crush on the playboy son of the millionaire for whom her father works. The playboy's serious-minded brother romances her in order to save the playboy's relationship with his fiancée, and so help a corporate merger go through.
The title recalls John Milton's song from his masque Comus (1634):
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of lilies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair;
Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save.
