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Daddy Long Legs
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Daddy Long Legs

May 5, 1955
2h 6m
★ 6.4

Overview

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.

Genres

Music
Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Daddy Long Legs Trailers

Cast

Fred Astaire

Jervis Pendleton III

Fred Astaire

Leslie Caron

Julie Andre

Leslie Caron

Terry Moore

Linda Pendleton

Terry Moore

Thelma Ritter

Alicia Pritchard

Thelma Ritter

Fred Clark

Griggs

Fred Clark

Charlotte Austin

Sally McBride

Charlotte Austin

Larry Keating

Alexander Williamson

Larry Keating

Kathryn Givney

Gertrude Pendleton

Kathryn Givney

Kelly Brown

Jimmy McBride

Kelly Brown

Ray Anthony

Ray Anthony

Ray Anthony

Gertrude Astor

Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor

Barrie Chase

Blonde Dancer (uncredited)

Barrie Chase

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