Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs

6.4IMDb Score
Released:1955-05-05
Genre:Music, Romance
Duration:126 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Jean Negulesco
Actors:Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark
Production:20th Century Fox

Overview:

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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