Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs

126 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | May 5, 1955

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. 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.

Daddy Long Legs

126 mins | Drama, Romance, Music | May 5, 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. 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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Daddy Long Legs
Directors William E. Orr, Eli Dunn, Jean Negulesco
Writers Jean Webster, Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron

Cast

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

Gertrude Astor

as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Barrie Chase

as Blonde dancer (in "International Playboy") (uncredited)

James Cromwell

as Extra (uncredited)

Lisa Montell

as College Girl (uncredited)

Leslie Parrish

as College Girl (uncredited)

Pat Sheehan

as College Girl (uncredited)

Sara Shane

as Pat

Evelyn Rudie

as Codene, Orphan Girl

Liliane Montevecchi

as College Girl

Diane Jergens

as College Girl

Ann Codee

as Madame Sevanne

Kenner G. Kemp

as Airport Passenger

Forbes Murray

as Art Gallery Patron

William H. O'Brien

as Hotel Waiter

Bert Stevens

as Graduation Attendee

Suzanne Alexander

as College Girl

Helen Van Tuyl

as College Dean

Jean Moorhead

as College Girl (uncredited)