{"id":18994,"date":"2020-07-23T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=18994"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:59:17","slug":"sabrina-mainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/sabrina-mainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina, #Mainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=ja20_digital_for_issuu&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=74&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Who knew the inspiration for the movie <em>Sabrina<\/em> was sparked here in Maine? A Blue Hill screenwriter and a character named Biddeford Poole are your first clues.<\/h2>\n<p><em>By Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Fred Astaire romp <em>The Pleasure of His Company<\/em> (1961) revolves around the return of a globe-trotting gadabout for his daughter\u2019s wedding. After a 20-year absence. With his disapproving first wife looking on.<\/p>\n<p>Mainer <strong>Gary Merrill<\/strong> joins a cast that includes<strong> Debbie Reynolds<\/strong> and <strong>Lilli Palmer\u00a0<\/strong>(the film\u2019s best performance). But the big hook is, the Astaire character\u2019s name is\u00a0<strong>Biddeford Poole<\/strong>. Who was the screenwriter for this movie, anyway? And what\u2019s up with the theme of return? He must have had a Maine<br \/>\nconnection. Ayuh!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration for the movie &#8220;Sabrina&#8221; was sparked in Maine.<br \/>\nBy Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1102,1103,1101],"class_list":["post-18994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-audrey-hepburn","tag-sabrina","tag-samuel-a-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19037,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions\/19037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}