Daddy Long Legs (1955 film)

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 Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the 1912 novel DaddyLongLegs by Jean Webster.

Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III Fred Astaire has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18yearold resident, Julie Andre Leslie Caron. He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Her nickname for him, Daddy Long Legs, is taken from the description of him given to Andre by some of her fellow orphans who see his shadow as he leaves their building.Several years later, he visits her at school, still concealing his identity. Despite their large age difference, they fall in love. ........

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