Daddy Long Legs

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.

Cast

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

as Jervis Pendleton III

Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron

as Julie Andre

Terry Moore

Terry Moore

as Linda Pendleton

Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter

as Alicia Pritchard

Fred Clark

Fred Clark

as Griggs

Charlotte Austin

Charlotte Austin

as Sally McBride

Larry Keating

Larry Keating

as Ambassador Alexander Williamson

Kathryn Givney

Kathryn Givney

as Gertrude Pendleton

Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown

as Jimmy McBride

Ray Anthony

Ray Anthony

as Himself

Reviews

CinemaSerf

"Jervis" (Fred Astaire) comes from a distinguished line of American millionaires who is travelling through France one day with his savvy factotum "Griggs" (Fred Clark) when he alights on the orphaned "Julie" (the hugely charming Leslie Caron) who is teaching young kids with a contagious enthusiasm t...

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