Daddy Long Legs

Directed by Jean Negulesco

Written by Jean Webster, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron

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.

Cast

Fred Astaire

Jervis Pendleton III

Leslie Caron

Julie Andre

Terry Moore

Linda Pendleton

Thelma Ritter

Alicia Pritchard

Fred Clark

Griggs

Charlotte Austin

Sally McBride

Larry Keating

Alexander Williamson

Kathryn Givney

Gertrude Pendleton

Kelly Brown

Jimmy McBride

Ray Anthony

Ray Anthony

Gertrude Astor

Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Barrie Chase

Blonde Dancer (uncredited)