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Daddy Long Legs
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Title: Daddy Long Legs

Release Date: 5 May 1955

Runtime: 2h 6m

Genre: Music, Romance

Director: 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.3 (85 votes)

Cast

  • Jervis Pendleton III: Fred Astaire
  • Julie Andre: Leslie Caron
  • Linda Pendleton: Terry Moore
  • Alicia Pritchard: Thelma Ritter
  • Griggs: Fred Clark
  • Sally McBride: Charlotte Austin
  • Ambassador Alexander Williamson: Larry Keating
  • Gertrude Pendleton: Kathryn Givney
  • Jimmy McBride: Kelly Brown
  • Himself: Ray Anthony
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