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Daddy Long Legs
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.
Director and cast
- Jean Negulesco Director
- Fred Astaire as Jervis Pendleton III
- Leslie Caron as Julie Andre
- Terry Moore as Linda Pendleton
- Thelma Ritter as Alicia Pritchard
- Fred Clark as Griggs
- Charlotte Austin as Sally McBride
- Larry Keating as Ambassador Alexander Williamson
- Kathryn Givney as Gertrude Pendleton
- Kelly Brown as Jimmy McBride
- Ray Anthony Cast
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