Daddy Long Legs

1955

Action / Musical / Romance

11
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 4619 4.6K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Jean Negulesco Photo
Jean Negulesco

Top cast

Kathryn Givney Photo
Kathryn Givney as Gertrude Pendleton
Lisa Montell Photo
Lisa Montell as College Girl
Robert Adler Photo
Robert Adler as Deliveryman
Cynthia Patrick Photo
Cynthia Patrick as College Girl
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1.08 GB
1280*538
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
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2.05 GB
1904*800
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Jervis" (Fred Astaire) comes from a distinguished line

"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 that encourages the wealthy man to facilitate her education at one of the colleges he just about owns in New England. She is excited about the prospect, but in best "Great Expectations" tradition, is unaware of the identity of her benefactor. She's grateful though, and regularly writes to him - letters that "Griggs" files rather than shares. This all becomes even more complicated when the girl becomes frustrated at the lack of responses and when two meet and begin to fall in love. "Something's Gotta Give" is the standard featured here, but there are plenty of other lively and perfectly choreographed numbers from two stars who gel well on screen together. Clark steals the show for me, his curmudgeonly but wily role well complemented by the occasional appearance of Thelma Ritter's "Alicia" and though it is certainly far too slow to get going - and is generally too long as well - the dynamic works well enough to keep a smile on your face for much of this gently simmering love story that has something of the "Cinderella" story to it.
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Reviewed by didi-5 8 / 10

a surprisingly sensitive musical

'Daddy Long-Legs', previously filmed silent with Mary Pickford and once more in the 1930s, gets the musical treatment here as the story of the millionaire and the orphan he sponsors gets a Technicolor, Cinemascope, Johnny Mercer update.

Fred Astaire, at 55, is a little old for his role as stick-in-the-mud business whizz Jervis Pendleton, but hey, this is Hollywood. And his interest in, and subsequent wooing of, the French girl Julie Andre (played with charm and wit by Leslie Caron) is helped a lot by the fact that the two stars do not actually share screen time until nearly halfway through the film! With scintillating choreography for both Astaire and Caron, those wonderful songs, and support from Fred Clark, Thelma Ritter, and Terry Moore, 'Daddy Long Legs' is an excellent musical just balancing on the cusp of classic musical vs rock n roll.

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