Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Directed by Jean Negulesco · 126 min · Romance
15.2 TOPICAL score · #5,022 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Daddy Long Legs (1955, directed by Jean Negulesco) has a TOPICAL score of 15.2 - ranked 5,022 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and cast, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 2 nominations. Audiences: TMDB 6.4/10 (97 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 14 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 6.4/10 (97 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 2 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 14 languages
- Still read5,228 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Fred Astaire (actor #411), Leslie Caron (actor #467), Terry Moore (actor #1,766), Thelma Ritter (actor #830)