Do you recognize this film's plot?

Chickensoup | May 26 2025 | Chickensoup

[Chickensoup]

Ping the film mavens here please?

You know I have a b&w film in my brain. About an older man i. He is perhaps 40s who wants to marry an 19 year old girl after a whirlwind romance. Upper class.

He is about her mother’s age. Mother makes it clear to him that mother is dying and she is relieved that someone will be there for her young naive daughter and gives permission.

It was a bittersweet film. I cannot find it. It rings no bells. I do not know whether I

[Chickensoup]

What is the name of that film?

[nopardons]

There is NO parental intervention in DARK VICTORY! And Bette Davis doesn’t have cancer. It’s called “DARK VICTORY” because its some disease of the brain and at the very end, she goes blind and dies.

[nopardons]

INVITATION; and if you haven't seen it, you should!

[Chickensoup]

No this isn’t it but now I want to watch it. Lol

[Political Junkie Too]

You're not, by chance, thinking of the movie Sabrina, are you?

In this movie, the older man Linus Larrabee is played by Humphry Bogart, and the young girl Sabrina is played by Audrey Hepburn.

In the beginning, Sabrina is the young teenage daughter of the wealth Larrabee family chauffeur (who lives above the estate garage) who has a crush on the younger Larrabee brother David (played by William Holden) who is a playboy. When Sabrina sees David wooing another woman, she is distraught and tries to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the chauffeur's garage. Linus finds her and rescues her from the car. Sabrina eventually goes to Paris for two years to finish school.

Two years later, Sabrina returns as a beautiful young adult and she and the older Linus eventually fall in love amidst the usual movie hijinks.

There is no dying mother, only the suicide attempt by the young girl. Her father is the family chauffeur and warns Sabrina of the dangers of mixing social class instead of endorsing a marriage with Linus Larrabee.

-PJ

[pico della mirandola]

https://www.whatismymovie.com/

[nopardons]

TCM shows it, but I don’t know if you van see it on line. It’s a very good film.

[Dr. Sivana]

Rebecca 1940’ish

No "mother" in that one. Rebecca had already died. The antagonist was the crazy hired matron of the household.

[Dr. Sivana]

But he was happy his young and innocent daughter went with the much older Gary Cooper. It was kind of creepy.

I thought a very young Audrey Hepburn was also mismatched with a much older Humphrey Bogart. The chemistry wasn't there, either.

[Fledermaus]

Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear in the remake.

[Fledermaus]

Bogart looked old at 25. They all did back then.

[Fledermaus]

And she with Banacek in Breakfast at Tiffanys.

[Chickensoup]

no, i am waiting for them to stream on Roku..

[Dr. Sivana]

And she with Banacek in Breakfast at Tiffanys.

Overrated pic, not much of a story. If that's the best that Truman Capote can give us, he's not a big deal. Reminds me of Neil Simon's plays and movies (the chemistry and the sitcom retooling of "The Odd Couple" saved that one on TV).

Audrey Hepburn was an exceptional Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady". The most memorable thing in "Breakfast" was Mickey Rooney's performance.

[Chickensoup]

I remember that one. No but thank you.

[SunkenCiv]

I doubt I’ve seen either of these, even in the three-network broadcast era of my rural youth.

Dark Victory (1939)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031210/

Invitation (1952)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044751/

[Dr. Sivana]

Bogart looked old at 25. They all did back then.

My wife thought William Holden looked like a better match in that one, even though the script made him into a jerk. Bogart looked old at 25, he looked older at 40+. He didn't sell me on the romance, and he's a talented actor. Therefore, he must have been miscast.

[HonkyTonkMan]

The Heiress (1949), directed by William Wyler

[nopardons]

NOTHING at all worked in SABRINA!

Both men were too old and it was drippy film.

[Chickensoup]

No but I do recall that film. A corker!