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Purchase Daddy Long Legs on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Fred Astaire becomes both the benefactor and suitor of Leslie Caron in this charming story of a playboy who falls under the spell of a beautiful French orphan. While traveling through France, Jervis Pendleton lll (Astaire) anonymously sponsors an 18-year-old girl named Julie (Caron), whom he sends to college in America. Two years later they finally meet face to face and start to fall in love. But complications ...
Jan 10, 2024 · Daddy Long Legs (1955) is a Hollywood 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
Feb 21, 2006 · DADDY LONG LEGS was Astaire's only film for 20th Century-Fox, and the studio gave him a superb supporting cast, including Terry Moore, Fred Clark, and the peerless Thelma Ritter. The film's script is by Henry and Phoebe Ephron, parents of today's famous writer/director Nora Ephron (SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, YOU'VE GOT MAIL).
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Daddy Long Legs. 1955. 2 hr 6 mins. Music. NR. Watchlist. Captivating entertainment from Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in this story of a millionaire who anonymously sends a French girl through ...
Music by Johnny Mercer. Instrumental danced by Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. Sluefoot. (uncredited) Music and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Sung by The Pied Pipers with Ray Anthony and His Orchestra. Danced by Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, and Chorus. Something's Gotta Give.
Daddy Long Legs (movie, 1955) Daddy Long Legs. Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college.
Critics reviews. On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year old girl in an orphanage. Enchanted with her, but mindful of the difference in their ages, he sponsors her to college in New England.
