Daddy Long Legs (1955)

Directed by

Jean Negulesco

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 04m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 95 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy American man secretly sponsors a young French orphan's college education, corresponding with her under a pseudonym. When she comes to New York to meet him, complications arise.

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What happens

Daddy Long Legs (1955) is a musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of Walston, Massachusetts. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco, and stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Fred Clark, and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. This was the first of three consecutive Astaire films set in France or with a French theme (the others being Funny Face and Silk Stockings), following the fashion for French-themed musicals established by ardent Francophile Gene Kelly with An American in Paris (1951), which also featured Kelly's protégée Caron. Like The Band Wagon, Daddy Long Legs did only moderately well at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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