Daddy Long Legs
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2hrs
6mins
Directed by
Jean Negulesco,
Starring
Fred Astaire,
Leslie Caron,
Terry Moore,
Thelma Ritter
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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.