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.

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
as Himself
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"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...