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Daddy Long Legs(Movie, 1955)

NR
| 2h 6min | Genres: Drama, Music, Romance / Love
Daddy Long LegsRating: 3.2/5 (with 4040 votes)
Daddy Long Legs (1955) is a 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 Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. This was the first of three consecutive Astaire films set in France or with a French theme (the others being Funny Face and Silk Stockings), following the fashion for French-themed musicals established by ardent Francophile Gene Kelly with An American in Paris (1951), which also featured Kelly's protégée Caron. Like The Band Wagon, Daddy Long Legs did only moder... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Daddy Long Legs

Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

About 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.

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Daddy Long Legs (1955) - Official CinemaScop & Teatrical Trailer(Trailer, 4:43)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on: "Daddy-Long-Legs" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR)
Translated into 14 languages: Catalan (CA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 05/05/1955
Director: Jean Negulesco
Producer: Samuel G. Engel
Film Editor: William H. Reynolds
Director of Photography: Leon Shamroy
Composer: Alex North
Production Designer: John DeCuir, Sr.
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Papai Pernilongo"

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Other movies with this title: Daddy Long Legs (US, 1931), Daddy Long Legs (NL, 1938), Daddy Long Legs (US, 1980), Daddy Long Legs (KR, 2005), Daddy Long Legs (2015)

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