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Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Romance · 2h 06m
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
Cast
Fred Astaire
Jervis Pendleton III
Leslie Caron
Julie Andre
Terry Moore
Linda Pendleton
Thelma Ritter
Alicia Pritchard
Fred Clark
Griggs
Charlotte Austin
Sally McBride
Larry Keating
Alexander Williamson
Kathryn Givney
Gertrude Pendleton
Kelly Brown
Jimmy McBride
Ray Anthony
Ray Anthony
Gertrude Astor
Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
Barrie Chase
Blonde Dancer (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Jean Negulesco
- Screenplay
- Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
- Novel
- Jean Webster
- Director of Photography
- Leon Shamroy
- Original Music Composer
- Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman
- Editor
- William Reynolds
- Producer
- Samuel G. Engel
Details
- Release date
- 1955-05-05
- Runtime
- 2h 06m
- Genres
- Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, French
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox